Originally Posted by Boston1954
Do you agonize over what colors to put next to each other in a scrappy? I want this to look nice, and I worry that something will be close to something else that will not go with it.
I just purchased a book by Sally Schneider: "Crazy for Scraps"
She spent two pages explaining "scrappy" ... she has it down to three different categories:
Themed (all 1930s, or Christmas, or cowboy, or reproduction, or oriental) - - or a chosen color way
Then, there is the planned scrappy, where each part of the block is a certain color, or a block is determined, with each block being a different set of colors
And, then the basic scrappy of: dark and light
I have control issues, so pulling colors from a bag is not my first idea of "fun" <g> ... but, everyone ought to try it at least once, just so why you will or will not ever do it again!
One of my friends gave me a bunch of five inch squares, where there were precious few lights, so you didn't have that light/dark option ... to accomplish the "sew it together as it comes from the bag" ... don't separate your colors into stacks of anything, though I did find myself not allowing myself to put two geometrics or flowers together, JUST to get the texture varied.
http://www.quiltville.com
the scrap quilter's best friend. The pattern that will best show the tube quilt idea is her postage stamp pattern (which are not one inch squares - - but they could be! <g>) as our friend before me pointed out, she did five inch blocks. <wave>