Letting the quilt take me where it wants to go is how my quilts get made. As blocks are coming together and they are really fun to make the quilt will surely be bigger. Sometimes a quilt will end up cut into scraps. Then I might have a few blocks on the wall and somebody needs a table runner for a gift so I will adapt those blocks into what I need at the moment.

A beautiful fabric that I would hate to cut will become a backing and the quilt will be as big as that backing will allow.

I almost never follow a pattern all the way through and change it up to my liking or need.

One thing I never do is cut the fabric for a whole quilt before I start sewing it together. I piece my quilts by cutting a few blocks at a time and build it slowly. I figure What if I cut the fabric wrong or don't like the pattern. I haven't wasted all that fabric.
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I belong t group A also.

Usually group A. When I finish a top, I will pick it up and wrap it around myself and think about the size of the person it is intended and usually end up adding more. I'm not very good at judging size by looking at ##'s

I don't fit in any category all the time either. Just yesterday I bought 'some' fabric and have no idea what I will make, it's like it just made me buy it. Someday I will know, but by then I'll be in category D.

I am with you sewbizgirl....i never put fabrics back in my stash until flimsy is completed, and binding strips are cut. :)

Judy in Phx, AZ

Often I tell my students and my customers that your quilt will talk to you - so listen! Sometimes it wants a certain color in the border or needs a bright snap in cornerstones or it wants to be a different size. Go with it because that is your gut coming thru and knows what it wants. Sometimes we let our head get in the way of what we know we really want.

I'm in group C also!

I think I'm group "C" too. I like to call myself a "seat of the pants" quilter. Sometimes I don't have a pattern at all, just an idea. And when I DO have a pattern, it's almost always something I've come up with myself, and I typically refine and change it as I go.

It's more fun for me, that way. :)

The hubs says I need to stick to the plan but I like to be "flexible".

I'm in C or D with every project, starting out with a picture of a quilt where I either like the color or a specific block. I never know what the end result will be.