Happy New Year, everyone. Let's make this the best one ever.
Glad to see all the new faces. Createfourpaws, wolf3349, happyjunker, and montiealms, welcome. Glad to have you aboard.
Nice blocks posted this morning. They will all look so nice.
Marytodd - as far as I know, scrappy means just that - scraps. I too use the so-called paper bag method. The only thing I do is, if I pull a duplicate of a square already sewn into the 9-patch, I pull a different one.
Some of you are second-guessing your choices, please don't worry. Don't forget, you are looking at a 9-patch sitting all alone and lonesome, and when it is all put together, you will be happy with it. I've made a couple dozen scrappy quilts, nost of them 40" x 60" for charity, with other lap size to king and haven't dislike the results of any of them.
Eliza said she bought a book on scrappy quilts - didn't know there was such a thing. Be interesting to look at it, just to see what they say.
Jaba - what a great idea, use up scraps once a year so they don't accumulate and overwhelm your sewing room!
Irish, and others who said the same thing, I agree with your opinion on scrappy.
Wolf - I figured the king I'm making needs 36 of the 9-patch plus an undetermined-as-yet number of 2-1/2 x 4-1/2 -- I think this should make a huge dent in my box of 4-1/2" squares!