I still love the magazines, not just for getting ideas, but for seeing the fabrics, and I'm still learning new techniques. I make wall hanging sizes and smaller so even the patterns won't work for me, but do give me ideas. ANd I just love looking at the pictures. My first machine lap size quilt was a block in a block, and it was Hoffman batiks which I had never used before, but fell in love with them, so my second quilt was the batiks again, and called The Shuffle. I did the pattern because I wanted to show off the fabric. Now I have scraps of all those batiks to make my PP and smaller blocks. I love all the quilts and colors. I can't just say I like one style. I love the traditional ones, but I also love to design my own. Everyone is different and every quilt is different. WE all have our own personalities, and if you look at my collection of quilts you might not know my personality, but you would know that I really love to quilt!