I only remember making sample blocks twice. The first one was my very first quilt block. It was too wonky to actually use it in a quilt, but I learned a lot from making it. The second one was recently, when a pattern called for almost 200 3" drunkard's path blocks. I made one using scraps just to see how difficult it would be. The block came out just fine, but it was a bit fiddly and time consuming. I had already decided that I didn't really like the look of the circles that the drunkard's path blocks created in the pattern, so I decided to change the design rather than spend hours and hours making blocks that I didn't like anyway.