These are all excellent methods! One thing I'll add is that I sometimes group my block pieces by color - very quickly and without thinking about each piece very much. Blacks in 1 pile, blues in another, etc. Then I literally deal them like playing cards into however many blocks I need. This helps me distribute some of the prints, especially those that say "look at ME!" This gives me a nice randomness that works for me...I just have never been able to do the paper bag technique. :-) Laura