Historcally quilts that were made were all scrappy. The pioneers did not have often have a place to buy fabric at or they lived to far from town or had no money. the pioneers would use the material that they had: clothes that did not fit anyone, sheets, and what not. Even the stuff that they put into the quilt to make it warm was whatever they had on hand: leaves, grass, old clothes, old coats and what ever. They used everything they had to make something warm. It's a piece of our history, plus tehre is alot of love sewn into every scrappy quilt. Some scrappy quilt look better than other scrappy quilts, but they are meant to be used and if someone doesn't have money to buy new material to make a quilt out of, than use the scraps that you have in your stash. I just made two baby quilts out of material that I already had in my stash. The batting was left over from other quilts that I have made, the backing also already on hand. I made the two quilts and tehy cost me nothing to make. Now I have two lovely quilts for my cousins new grandchildren (twins - a bou and a girl). What more can I say? I'll add pictures later as I'm at work now and the pic are at home.