being a happy to do scrappy person- and that is my totally favorite kind of quilt to work on, I would look at the Bonnie Hunter website and check out all her free patterns before settling on this particular quilt. some pretty stunning quilts can be made that are scrappy- my favorite one that I have made is a crumb block one. I don't know if I can go back to my stash to do anything but scrappy after doing some of Bonnies.