I too have lots of patterns, mags, and books. I do try to make new patterns and usually successful. My very good quilt friend always makes a new pattern and never the same. I cannot count the number of times I have made "crazy nine-patch", "Yellow Brick Road", "nine patch", "disappearing nine patch", "hop-scotch with layer cakes", "log cabins", or "courthouse steps". If I need a fast quilt I always fall back to the 2 1/2 jelly rolls to make 4-patchs with strips around the 4-patch--I can get that one done in no time flat.
Best of all, the quilt police do not come to Round Rock, Texas.