Originally Posted by
Scraplady
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!
I did not realize that a quilt was classified as "scrappy" totally on the number of fabrics used. This means that many or all of the Baltimore album quilts, Jane Stickle quilts, and the beautiful sampler quilts are all scrappy quilts since they probably have the required number of different fabrics used in their total number of blocks. I thought there was more to the definition than that.