My few quilts are all scrappy. In the 80's my future son's mother took me to my first quilt shop. "How do you decide what to buy?" "You buy what you like." I like blues and greens so I bought a yard of fabric that day.. And have been buying small amounts --a yard, fat quarters- -- of blues and greens ever since, to the tune of about 200 fabrics by now. In 1995 I made a logcabin of my light/dark blues and greens with some lavender thrown in. From there I went to an offset logcabin, a Turning twenty (one), a Scrapathon and, HST's in a diamond pattern. Then a Turning Tweny (two).. Yes, they are scrappy but scrappy with a color theme. Do I 'select' pieces? Only in the sense that two very darks or very lights don't go side by side. I love being able to buy small cuts of several fabrics--That way I don't have to make decisions then and there. I'll never do a true scrap quilt with all colors as I have very little outside the blue green lavender. I am going to splash a bit of orange in the next quilt..