Just my thoughts on the "too scrappy" issue, if you make a scrappy quilt and find it looking like mud soup, a nice duvet cover will keep it nicely and keep all that work from going unused. I can't imagine that any quilt is not worthy of being used with all the work that goes into making it, the scrappy quilts that my granny made would probably also look like mud soup, but I'd be proud to wrap myself in one of them today!