I never liked scrappy before till I tried one of Bonnie Hunter's patterns...........then I fell in love with scrappy. Now I try to use scraps in every quilt. Sometimes its a controlled scrappy, sometimes it anything goes. Still can't keep up with the scrap bin but I'm making some progress. Right now I'm using scraps in the veggie and fruit style putting them into long strips with a navy blue between them, adding a decorative stitch between them and these will become the front side of my new kitchen placemats. The backside are also scraps but wider strips, again with decorative stitching. Love when I can make something from just scraps so to me its a freebie.