Originally Posted by maporch
Do you still put orphan blocks together even if they're all totally different colors and styles? I have some orphan blocks I'd love to put together in a quilt, but whenever I put them next to each other it looks so strange!
Use some of the scraps to make filler parts. I've seen a lot of scrap blocks put together with just sashing and that's okay but it really creates an interesting quilt when you use filler strips of small 9 patches, flying geese, small snowball blocks or even mini versions of the orphan blocks. Doing that can really pull an odd block size scrappy quilt together.