Originally Posted by
ghostrider
Good Grief!! I think I would probably have put the DIL away and kept the quilt out to enjoy!
To me, 'scrappy' refers to the random arrangement of fabrics, not the number or source of those fabrics. It's the unplanned, haphazard placement that makes a quilt scrappy.
You can precisely and intentionally arrange pieces of multiple different fabrics previously used in other quilts, technically called scraps, and the result will not be a 'scrappy' quilt. Chances are, such a quilt will not even look scrappy to anyone but the occasional DIL.
According to some sources I've read, primarily Judy Martin, scrappies at quilt shows actually ARE qualified as "scrappy" based on the number of fabrics they contain, with minimum requirement varying from show to show. A scrappy quilt does not by any means have to be haphazard or random. They certainly can be and sometimes those are the most fun!