Depending on your personal style, you might find that you prefer to create "improv" quilts. There are several books coming out currently, or in the next few months that guide you through the process of improv quilting, or you could start following a blogger who uses that construction technique. Many (not all) of the "modern" bloggers are improv - my favorites off the top of my head would be Tallgrass Studios and Sew Katie Did. In this style of design, there is no measuring, no graph paper, no math -- you cut, arrange, sew, cut, rearrange, sew, keep moving things around until you like the look, and call it done. I find it refreshing and fun, though it's not my predominant style of quilting.
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