Originally Posted by PaperPrincess

I have done both. I had a great deal of difficulty lining up my blocks with the fun & done. The pattern I chose needed the blocks to be aligned, so it may have been the pattern choice. My sister did a different pattern & didn't seem to have as much of an issue as I did. I liked the strip method a lot. The look of the 2 methods is quite different, the fun & done has a very wide sashing as compared to the method that Ditter used. So there's not really a 'better' method, but what you like in an overall look. The other thing with the Ditter method is that you really don't need to quilt each individual block and then join. I did a cluster of 6 (2X3) or 9 (3X3) blocks, joined them with 1/2" sashing, quilted that section, then joined the next group using the same 1/2" sashing.