I have always loved scrap quilts and was doing them many years ago even before I really realized that that's what I was doing. Now I am hugely inspired by Bonnie Hunter. I struggle to tame some of the "busy-ness" of a scrap quilt, and my best technique for doing that is to build the quilt by putting each block on the design wall, from the very first block. I prefer a theme, such as neutrals, monochromatic, or perhaps analogous colors. I made a bear's paw crumb quilt last year from blues, greens, and purples, with white as the background. It's my favorite quilt.