A few years ago I discovered how quilt tops look through the camera lens helps me in my quilting. If I'm undecided about how I want to layout my quilt blocks, I try several layouts and photograph each of them. Looking at the layouts in the photos help me "take a step back" and I find it is much easier to decide on the direction I want the quilt to go. Many a times I had an initial layout in mind only to discover that once I used my camera to "step back" I hated the layout. Before I began using my camera I'd found myself at least halfway done with the top and not happy with it. That meant my seam ripper got commandeered to get me back to square one so I could lay them out in a different manner. Believe me, this has saved me from many hours of ripping blocks apart.