my guild has a class every winter to stretch our skills and they are always samplers. I told one of the ladies that does them that "no more for me" as I'm not huge fan of samplers and frankly do a bad job on them in class--we always have super complex blocks and guess I just don't focus like I would at home. Plus while I have tons of designs I can use on quilting them, I like more wide open spaces. I do like them to be color coordinated blocks, or if scrappy, some unifying color in background, etc.