Good Grief!! I think I would probably have put the DIL away and kept the quilt out to enjoy!

To me, 'scrappy' refers to the random arrangement of fabrics, not the number or source of those fabrics. It's the unplanned, haphazard placement that makes a quilt scrappy.

You can precisely and intentionally arrange pieces of multiple different fabrics previously used in other quilts, technically called scraps, and the result will not be a 'scrappy' quilt. Chances are, such a quilt will not even look scrappy to anyone but the occasional DIL. :)

I love scrappy quilts. I rarely follow a pattern anymore. A friend gives me her scraps and I design a quilt around them, and I buy scraps (hate to admit that) and design from there. I'm hooked!

Right now, this one is driving me nuts!! It is a strip block and I am trying to follow directions from a book. I will do this if it kills me! I am a relatively new quilter and boy! right now, I sure know it! Watch for the obit - for either the quilt top or me!

I love scrappy quilts--the more unplanned the better. I have done string and crumb quilts which have no plan--as well as scrappy pickets and more "planned" scrappys. My favorites are the string and crumb ones. Will soon start a scrappy one that is postage stamps.........I like working with LITTLE pieces of colors, and putting two colors of similiar color isn't a problem for me it's the way it comes out, I just sew the next block to the next and it makes it.

I'm not a fan. I love art quilting more than traditional. I do both but I love drawing my own patterns and most of them are applique.

I love scrappy quilts for no other reason but to get rid of baskets of fabric scraps that are everywhere.

this is my technique. I love, love, love, love scrappies and I don't control anything. I sew the scraps as they come out of the bin, and quilting should be fun.

I love scrappy quilts! I have to at least control the placement of lights and darks. They are more work though because I'm cutting out of odd shaped/sized scraps so no strip cutting!

Somehow the idea is coming across that the careful, time consuming placement of colors and fabrics is not fun. How odd! That's like telling a painter that he shouldn't select the colors he paints with, but just use whatever he puts his hands on - and fewer people like those canvases than like the ones that are figurative art. Purple faces with orange noses and black lips aren't usually that popular. Art in our quilts is different than art on our canvases for many of us, I guess.

I love your quilt it is very beautiful and I love scrappy quilts.