Years ago the late Mary Ellen Hopkins taught a scrappy quilt class not only was it fun but all the quilts looked really nice and wha t she did was use 2 brown paper bags and every brought strips light and dark light went in one bag dark in another we drew one from each bag and had to sew them together when one person tried to peek she got blind folded needless to say lots of fun some neat quilt tops and took away the fear of picky picky try it for fun with a friend or 2 if possible