I just think your quilts are a perfect example of how coordinated a scrap quilt looks. The sashing helps a good bit, I am thinking.
I'll have to tell you why I love the scrap quilts, and I think it is because when I was a little girl who was made to take naps on a scrap quilt (didn't know what it was at the time, of course) by my babysitter ... it didn't take too long for my busy mind and fingers to notice the different fabrics and trace the quilting patterns ... try to connect the similar fabrics, try to find a path through the quilting stitches which wandered all over the place.
Because I remember how fascinated I was as a small child, when I am making quilts for veterans, I try always to inject things that attracted me as a child, including the fabric.
I envision a little girl coming to Veterans' Home to visit Papa and seeing the quilt, finding something she just can't keep still about and starting to talk to Papa about things little girls and Papas love to talk about. Keeping in mind that upon Papa's passing, the quilt finds its way home to the family, I just feel duty bound to make sure that everyone in the family has something to appreciate about Papa's memory, last days, and the quilt that he has now passed on to his loved ones. I have not found a pattern which can accomplish what I am attempting to reproduce with stilted instructions and color ways ... the more, the merrier, for the families I may never meet, but think about all along the way.
Catch you all later <wave>