Buy ready-made patchwork squares or cut up fabric?

Dear users, dear designers,
when you sew patchwork projects, do you cut the fabric yourself or do you use ready-cut purchased squares?

the quilt above is a so-called Bargello, but made with squares of the same size. This blanket measures 2.20 m x 2.30 m and was a Christmas gift for my youngest daughter

this rose-colored one is a so-called Drunken Path, a tipsy path :-) I once sewed it for the staff at the nursing home where my mother was.

I cut, or have always cut, everything myself that I needed and wanted for a quilt. It’s also much more fun that way and you’re more flexible if you change your mind about one thing or another. Before you sew a quilt, you should also think carefully about what kind you’d like to have. For beginners, I would first recommend squares in the same size; that’s easier to handle than, for example, a Bargello, which doesn’t necessarily have rectangles and squares of the same size. Or even a Drunken Path, where the curves really should fit very precisely, otherwise at some point it won’t fit at the back or the front anymore. This Africa quilt was my very first patchwork project, a bedspread for our marriage bed. The squares also had to be quilted, meaning the three layers of the blanket: the top, the backing fabric, and the batting that goes inside. I spent days, or rather weeks, just quilting this blanket.

Best, Inge

Wow
The Bargello is great.