what is a scrappy I always thought it was all kinds of fabric colors strips or whatever you had on hand and that you did not have to worry about placement just go with the flo I am new at this so need some in put also i find that all the directions for cutting are with a rotary cutter which I bought but do not use because of arthrits can not find anything where they quilt the old way with sizzors template I am about ready to give it up and go back to crochet I read in a post for the postage stamp quilt that if you keep your blocks 2 or under that it would not matter about placement or colors that when finish it would look great but am thing it would take a lot of 2 inch blocks just to make a throw will put into search to see how big for throw I guess