To me a scrap quilt is made up of all your left over materials and just sewd together with no rhyme or reason or fashion color police telling you how they think it should look. A scrap is a scrap and that's that IMHO.

Bonnie Hunt just spoke at my quilt guild, she's a scrappy quilt queen! She has several great ideas on her website:

www.quiltville.com

Free patterns too!

I have been doing scrapy paper p, my saying is "if it fit's, it sews"

I read somewhere, many years ago that when making a scrappy if you have materials that you think clash, keep those fabric patches, blocks or strips at laest three patches, blocks or strips apart and they will never interfer with each other. I have used this idea in my quilts and it seams to work for me and I put everything in my quilts. Happy scrappy! :D

Also if you haven't seen them, some of my scrappy quilts are in "pictures" titled A couple more quilts from UBE.
May 18th. They may help you with ideas. UBE
Peace :D

As long as you make sure you vary the values within your quilt it will work, regardless of the colours. By this I mean that you should have a mixture of lights, darks and mediums to contrast with each other. The quilts are not as successful if they are all the one tone.

This is my go-to project when I am stressed with another project and need a no-think thing to do. I use deli-papers cut down to 8 1/2" and just pull pieces out of the scrap bag. If the size is right, it goes on the square, that is my only criteria for these blocks. I may have a grand mess when I finally put them together, or not. Time will tell. At this point, I think I will have to sash them.

Try sorting scraps into lights mediums and darks I have had most success that way.

I just made a scrap quilt, my first, from 4" squares I have been collecting. I came up with a little trick so I had more of a variation. I did the strip piecing method, sewed 2 together, one print, one more solid or contrast, chained pieced 2 more the same way. Then when I had a bunch I cut them apart so I had pairs. Next I chain pieced a pair to a pair making a 4-patch so the solids or contrast were opposite each other. Then I put 2 4 patches together, and so on till I had a 2 row strip the desired length. Then I put pairs of rows together. I found I had more control of my colors this way. Let me see if I have a pic of it.

Have you ever seen a field of wildflowers that was ugly? Try and get that feel into a scrap quilt. If you work too hard at a color pattern then you are making a quilt using scraps, but not making a scrap quilt.
I hope that makes sense

Bonnie Hunter has some great patterns for scrappy quilts and they are free and you can get lots of neat ideas there, her web site is quiltville.com , check it out , oh I see someone alread addressed that,