I jump right in on most occasions only because if I am making it for myself I want it king size. I haven't made a king size in a number of years because it is so hard to handle and most of my king size I hand quilt. The exception is if I am doing a QAYG project and then I make that decision as the quilt is getting larger with each section I am adding and that is because I have better control I have one such quilt sitting in front of me as I type. I have the center and first border on and am trying to decide if I want to put 2 or 3 rows of 9 patches in the following section and just keep building. On this one time will tell.