I like scrappy quilts and anything goes as long as it is cotton. I'm working on one now with triangles and there are many, many colors, from lighter fabrics to the white background. I just grab a piece and put it down but it is sort of controlled as I hate to have two many of one color in a spot. Have made 3 different scrap so far and love them all. They go nicely in any room in my house. Oh, I have planned color ones and patterns that only needed 3 or 4 fabrics but what else do you do when you have bins of fabric? I will have to sell a lot of it as I will never use it all, not even the feed sacks. It is all a matter of what you are doing and when I make a scrap quilt I do have a layout in mind which sometimes is changed when I start laying the scraps out.