one of the most fun quilt classes I ever took was a scrap quilt from Mary Ellen Hopkins she had everyone bring some fabric lights and darks ant the lights went in a paper bag the darks in another and you drew one out of each bag sewed them together and we had some neat looking quilts oh yes if someone wanted to get chosy on picking a color they got blind folded and Marty Ellen is also the author of Its OK to sit on my Quilt