Roberta Horton wrote a book called Scrap Quilts the Art of Making Do published in 1998. She asks the question what is a scrap quilt? She comes up with a list of ingredients. How many fabrics should be in a scrap quilt? Is there a magic number? She doesn't think so. She heard a story of a quilt moved out of the scrap category in a national competition because it contained only 65 rather than their required 75 fabrics. She shows a photo of a quilt from her collection with only 11 fabrics, but she considers it a scrap quilt. She loves fabrics and thinks quilts made with a lot of different fabrics give her more to look at and hence more to love. "A scrap quilt is impossible to memorize. It would require a lengthy phone conversation to a fellow quiltmaker to describe."