In this order: choosing a recipient (known or stranger), designing/planning, picking fabric, piecing, arranging the finished blocks, pressing, cutting, binding, prewashing, bordering, quilting, sandwiching. Although, I gotta say, now that I've got a machine with an 11" inch throat that is a dream with FMQ sewing, I think I'm going to be able to move that phase of quilt making up higher in the "favorite part" queue.