I looked at the quilterscache link that Belfrybat gave. Look at the difference between these two examples they have! :-)
White --
http://www.quilterscache.com/images1...rnstateill.jpg
Quilter's choice of colors/scrappy --
http://www.quilterscache.com/BomLott...otto_Sept.html (not a quilt, but you get the idea.)
Sorry for the long post... I seem to always have lots of thoughts, and I like to write... :-)