Wow, thank you for this thread! I am so delighted to find there are so many more people like me than I thought. Everything you read in magazines and such is all about the pattern and someone else's ideas. As my profile says, when I was a young I was the good little girl who did what she was told. Teacher's pet, Goodie Twoshoes. The older I get the farther I get from that. I very rarely follow a pattern entirely and I'm much happier putting things together to my own liking. I have lots of patterns to use in my own versions. I only bought one kit and that was for the purpose of making it differently so I can demonstrate that at guild meetings and groups. "Do your own thing" is my motto now. Dancing to my own drummer. Yes! Love all you other out-of-the-boxers! (Well, maybe not the underwear meaning of that. Teehee.)