I try anything new if I think it might work. I follow Marti Michell's way of checking fabrics for bleeding and so far, it works for me too. I have tried the starching method and sometimes I use it but mostly I do not. I have tried the glue and loved it for piecing a quilt once and decided I will use it again. I read about appliquing for a drunkard path quilt and decided not to do it, I would just stitch it on machine. Some things are ok and some aren't. I tried making some quilts out of little pieces of fabric following a famous designers patterns and they aren't for me at all. I am even going to sell her books, I dislike them so much. So I guess I am very open to trying things and if it doesn't work for me, then I go in another direction. I do not let the experimentation cut into my quilting time though.