Letting the quilt take me where it wants to go is how my quilts get made. As blocks are coming together and they are really fun to make the quilt will surely be bigger. Sometimes a quilt will end up cut into scraps. Then I might have a few blocks on the wall and somebody needs a table runner for a gift so I will adapt those blocks into what I need at the moment.
A beautiful fabric that I would hate to cut will become a backing and the quilt will be as big as that backing will allow.
I almost never follow a pattern all the way through and change it up to my liking or need.
One thing I never do is cut the fabric for a whole quilt before I start sewing it together. I piece my quilts by cutting a few blocks at a time and build it slowly. I figure What if I cut the fabric wrong or don't like the pattern. I haven't wasted all that fabric.
peace
Last edited by ube quilting; 05-23-2017 at 04:46 AM.