My idea of scrappy is pulling from your stash and using odds and ends, usually not larger pieces cut down. That said I buy small amounts of fabric to start to make scrappy style quilts. I like civil war reproduction fabric and quilts designs from the past. I hand piece and hand quilt my projects and think the handwork element combined with the variety of reproduction fabrics used in the projects lend themselves to scrappy looks since people in the 1800s often had to work from what they had on hand or what they could find in stock and afford to purchase. Mine are controlled in that I am buying small cuts of fabric, charm sizes, reproduction scrap packs from vendors, etc to begin with and all my scraps are from the same era so there are no modern prints mixed in.