Froggy have you seen the
scrap quilt show here on the board? There are some wonderful scrappy quilts posted there. And Bonnie Hunter is a queen of scrappy quilts. Recently I resumed working on two scrappy postage stamp quilts (PSQ) which I am using fabrics from my stash and fabric from the many postage stamp swaps I have been involved in. I would consider both of the PSQ scrappy.
I recently saw pics of another truly wonderful (imho) quilt that I would call scrappy and planning to make. I have already begun to gather the fabrics for. It is the
Maple Leaf Rag quilt by Sara Fielke, Sara Fielke used no repeat fabrics in her quilt. I will strive to do the same.
But in the end, I would think that scrappy can be what each quilter defines for themselves with their own artistic eye. For me I would define a scrappy quilt project as one where I have used a variety of uncoordinated fabrics, to include a plethora of colors, a variety prints such as 30's repos, modern , traditional, novelty, neutrals, solids, stripes, blenders, batiks and everything in between to create my masterpiece.
And I will have most likely included in my scrappy projects some fabrics purchased from local & online stores, yard sales, estate sales, swap fabrics, scraps from other projects, gifted fabrics, stash fabrics, fabric from clothing I once loved & deconstructed, memory fabrics I kept of others.
This is my idea of scrappy.