For a bit more harmony - use colors from only half or 2/3 of the color wheel, but use lots of shades of those colors.
Try just looking at the different colors you want to use before you start sewing random colors together.
An example of this is autumn/thanksgiving colors.
Whites and black and other very dark colors are very tricky to use in most scrappy quilts, they are just too too
contrasty, and can spoil the harmony. Try leaving them out before your final decision.

Isn't trying to figure out a scrappy quilt and use of color a "fun" exercise? LOL <wave>

One reason I love it is that it's such fun and a wonderful way to distract me from my pain. It's very effective!

Just make sure that you get yourself a good pair of Rag Quilting Scissors. There actually are scissor designed for Rag Quilting. They're small but very heavy duty. The lower blade is serrated so that it holds all types of fabrics especially the slippery ones like silk and satins much better. This means cleaner, more precise cuts. You can find them online by googling Quilters Rag Scissors

FYI - The lower blade of any scissors does not do the cutting. It holds the fabrics. The top blade cuts the material.

Happy Scissoring

Now I wish I would have put sashing in my string scrap quilt. That black really set it off. Love

put your pieces in a bag and take out one at a time
the more random your pieces the better it looks
what quilt ore you making in scrappy

there is controlled scrappy where you use all shades of one or two or 3 colore for example red, white and blue
or traditionally scrappy you use what you have


this is my everything in the pot scrappy quilt
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-126943-1.htm



another scrappy example
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-128306-1.htm