Welcome, Lizzy-tish, from St. Louis! Isn't retirement great! :lol:
Scrappy quilts are not necessarily planned color coordinated quilts, although they can be! They are not ART quilts. It is a way to use up left overs from previous quilts, or when you are lucky enough to find a bunch of material at a yard or garage sale and there is not enough to do a big quilt in a certain color theme, you use almost matches or a nine patch with darks and lights and then slice them again and go from there. It is a fun way to sew. String quilts are examples of scrappies. It is hard to do a scrappy when you are first quilting, but if you are like the rest of us, you will have left overs from every other quilt. You just can't bear to discard anything, in the the true pioneer spirit, everything MUST be used! :lol: