Originally Posted by
Bamagal
Is it the color of the sashes and borders that pull a scrap quilt together ?. So many scrap quilts have a definite color scheme--are they really scraps? My scraps are from several quilts and don't necessarily go together! I'm having a hard time-- Pulling it all together. I don't have enough scraps from one quilt to make a color coordinated scrap quilt but I have a lot of scraps!
Go to Quiltville.com and find some of the most gorgeous scrappys ever made. Bonnie does many scrappy quilts in same colors. I did two green scrappys that everyone just loved. String blocks is where you can really do your scrappy thing. There is a gorgeous scrappy string block at quiltinggallery.com called the herringbone block. Very cool. Bonnie also does scrappy neutral string blocks she adds to her blocks in her patterns. I, also think the neutrals in your scrappy blocks, plus never lose sight of the color values - light, med, and darks are what make scrappys sing.