I end up doing different things in my quilts, as I don't want to do the same block, over & over, for the whole quilt. If I do, then each one is all different fabrics. I am more like to finish a top if the overall design keeps me interested. I like a challenge too, & not one that looks exactly like everyone else's...

I like to make scrappies and whatever the mood strikes me!

As a designer I am at a loss right now. I go out of my way to design things that no one has ever seen before and I am always amazed when I open a brand new magazine and see square in a square quilts again and again! New fabric lines or different sizes don't make it a new design.

HELLO, every time I open a quilt magazine I am thinking these same thoughts. I understand newer quilters may need more simple designs but can we also have something to challenge older quilters?
Robin in TX

I agree with clsurz
There is no right or wrong in anyway you do it as long as you are happy with the results.

Once I finally realized this I have enjoyed quilting a lot more. I like designs that look complicated but are not. I love your NOVA pattern.

This is a good idea but I think it would be more about techniques and ideas - I think advanced design quilters want to create their own rather than follow a pattern. I've stopped getting the magazines for exactly the reason you state - yet another square in a square block pattern, usually made with a particular range of fabric. Just seems like an ad for that manufacturer sometimes...

But then, like others have said, newbies need to be given the confidence of every detail, that's how we learn. And to see colours and fabrics that work together, already picked for you, hopefully you can begin to get the confidence to design your own quilts. But I do think there is a gap in the market between these quilting magazines and the fibre arts magazines which go much more into mixed media. (I love that too but sometimes it strays a little too far away from 'quilting'!)

Sorry to waffle on, I think the point I am trying to make is that patterns in magazines are largely for newbies or not very confident quilters so by their very nature will be simple. Advanced quilters want to design their own quilts or are more into techniques they can make their own than step by step patterns. :-D