Originally Posted by
baronreads
With that being said, if you're going "scrappy" do you add in neutrals as you go? Or do you start with the specific number you're using from the beginning and for each step use a mix of those? Does that make sense? I'm just thinking that some of the scraps I'm using to start I may run out of before I'm done with neutrals....
I think people do it both ways. I'm following the Quiltville Open Studio Facebook page, and some people have specifically said that they used certain fat quartets for this first clue, so those won't appear anywhere else in the quilt. In last year's mystery, I had the urge to use one neutral for all of the sashing (clue #3) that I hadn't used for clues #1 and #2, but I chickened out. I still wonder what it would have looked like.