I love all kinds of quilts. My grandmother and her sisters all made beautiful quilts...some controlled and some scrappy. The scrappies were the most fun for me because I could look at them for hours and pick out pieces of fabric I recognized from clothing we all wore. They were kind of like I Spy quilts. The scrappies I make now don't have fabrics I recognize from clothes, but many are fabrics from other quilts. I also just love the freedom and randomness of a scrappy quilt. You can make multiples of the same quilt using different scraps and they will each have a personality of their own. They are just plain FUN!!
I also think that Bonnie Hunter may have some influence here as well.