Originally Posted by justflyingin

I think that you are describing controlled scrappy. However, there are other scrappys as well.

I've been trying to use up a lot of my scraps this year.

I've done what you say--by just sewing squares together. However, because I had so many squares, it was easy to separate them into blues, yellows, purples, etc. so I made, for example, blue and yellow squares (alternating squares), browns and greens, etc.

These are all beautiful !!

But here are some of the tops I've been working on this year.