I tend to go in difference directions depending on my mood of the day. I use to buy anything I really liked, might put a couple matching pieces with it as well. Then I went through a phase where I would see a picture of a quilt I liked, buy everything for that project. My thoughts were, someday I'll be retired and won't be able to buy everything I want so I'll have plenty of projects to choice from. I've grouped fabrics together in bags along with the pattern or magazine and last count I was up to 12 projects. So, the time has come. I'm officially retiring come the end of June, so my plan now is to tackle those projects as I feel like it. Now I buy only what I need to go with what I'm doing. Off to a shop at lunchtime to get more of a brown for binding on a baby quilt that's almost done. This quilt was not from my planned projects, everything except for the binding is from my scrap bucket.