I agree .. Log cabin is my "go to " for scrappy with 1.5 cut strips .

I love Bonnie Hunter's "Star Struck." It is one of the few patterns I have made more than once.
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/star-struck.html

I'm also a huge fan of Judy Martin, but I think Bonnie Hunter's designs are more strip-friendly.

I like most scrappy quilts. The patterns I have made most often are Vestibule, which I prefer to call corner star, and a form of scrappy in which I begin each block with a foundation (usually a batting scrap) and a fussy cut theme print, such as an animal print, then add to that with the sew 'n flip method. For Corner Star, I generally use muslin squares to make the star points.

The first one I showed here is a foundation one which starts with orphan blocks and bits that didn't work elsewhere.

I did a few scrappy quilts this year that I love the results of.
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Snowballs and 9 patches with applique dresses for niece # 1
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Snowballs and HST 4 patch with butterfly applique for niece #2

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Eye Fooler for me !

Slightlyoff-- I love all 3 you pictured here. Very fun scrap quilts.

thanks everyone. will go ckout the sites now. love those scrappy quilts that you took the time to show me, much appreciated. off to see what i'm going to do.

Lately I've been doing string piecing. I've worked on 2, one with batiks, one with non-batiks. Doing the first block, I was piecing diagonally on a foundation fabric. It stretched, so I'm adding left over phone book pages to the bottom of the block to keep them from stretching.

I've seen others work on string piecing a star on a foundation. The corner that becomes the star is all the same size and fabric,then the rest is just string pieced. And others working on a block with string piecing on the straight of grain (don't need foundation fabric for this), then place 2 pieces with right sides together, with stripes going perpendicular to each other, sew around the outside, then cut on both diagonals. Arrange the blocks as you wish.

I also have a bunch of bonus half square triangles left over from making snow ball blocks. Don't know the size of them. And I was cutting some scraps into equilateral triangles to use in a border.

I think most people use 2" or 2.5" strips/blocks, but I prefer making larger blocks,so I often do 3.5" strips or blocks.

thanks for the heads up on the stretching. lesson learned for me by you.
love all the quilts everyone is showing

Depending on the pattern you choose, a half square triangle border looks great scrappy. Especially if you choose to mix light and dark variations of the same color.

Here are a few from Quiltmaker's Pinterest board on Scrap Quilts http://www.pinterest.com/quiltmakermag/scrap-quilts/