I normally don't follow patterns. for a quilt per se. I will for the block that I make and then decide if they are what I want in the quilt and then lay it out. I am a traditionalist at heart so I have a large range of blocks to choose from. I have spread my wings a great deal over the last year because I bought the Accuquilt cutting system and am making block I never considered before. I find I must follow the piecing patterns very closely this way. I love sampler quilts so I can put a lot of different blocks I am trying out in a single quilt. I think I have just about every quilt magazine printed between 1983 and 2008. It seemed like the patterns in them were beginning to repeat themselves so I stopped subscribing. I love getting ideas from here too. If I see a quilt I like I will keep the link in my bookmarks so I can pull it anytime I want.