I am a natural born shopper so the looking at fabric is a delight to me. I like to cut my pieces then try to lay them out to see how they will look different ways, that makes it like a jigsaw puzzle with no idea what the end should look like as I have yet to use a real pattern to create anything. The quilting is the hardest part for me. I have a basic Brother LS2125i that I love but it's not really made for doing the "quilting" and so far I'm too new at my craft to send my work out to have it done by someone else to look professional. But I still have great fun and that's what I took up quilting for to have fun.