Do You Photocopy Your Fabric?
I was visiting a LQS on my travels, chatting with the owner. I mentioned struggling with decisions about orientation of fussy cutting for my blocks. She asked - why don't you just photocopy your fabric and make a few blocks to decide? How smart is that! Rather than cutting up fabric, make colour photocopies, cut out block pieces and play with paper rather than expensive fabric!
This also means no more digging through stash looking for similar colours to use making a test block. I love good ideas like this.