Originally Posted by ctack2

It's funny that this topic came up today. I am a new new newbie...haven't got the first piece cut for my first quilt yet. I made a couple baby quilts, but that was like 30 years ago!
Last night while I was looking at patterns, I kept thinking to myself that while they are pretty, some beautiful ones out there, they just look like pieces of art to me. I'd see a pattern that I thought was nice, but kept thinking "that doesn't look cozy and comfortable like Mamaw's quilts always did" or "nice, but nothing as homey as Granny used to make". Then it hit me! The quilts that they made decades ago were all 'scrappy quilts', made from cloth left over from making clothes, or old clothes cut apart. I can't imagine either of them EVER went into a store with the intention of buying material for a quilt. Those were the quilts that you could spend hours looking at - looking for scraps from clothes you remembered someone wearing.....nothing says love (to me) more than a scrappy quilt made by my grandmother.
Carol B