Originally Posted by Rose_P

I have done I-spy quilts for kids, and there's no other way. I've also done one miniature quilt that was fussy cut. The fabrics were from a bundle of scraps from a thrift store, and I really couldn't think of any other possible use for them, anyway. I found the foundation pieced frog pattern on the Internet: http://www.winnowing.com/frog.html

I agree that it seems wasteful to fussy cut, but prefer to look upon the value of the fabric not in terms of every square inch, but as being a resource that costs a certain amount for what I want to do. If it seems worth it at the moment, I wouldn't hesitate. The difference between having lopped off parts of images all over a quilt or having exactly the centered, complete item, might be what makes the quilt worth doing or the fabric worth buying in the first place.

Originally Posted by TanyaL

Jenny Beyer is one of many selling patterns for fussy cut blocks. She uses border patterns to make blocks that look simply intricate beyond words but are only fussy cut and straight stitched. Border printed fabric almost demands to be fussy cut in my experience.