Thanks for posting ... it's incredible!

For me, scrappy quilting is like what your friends did. Go through the fabrics at hand. Choose what you like best together. Sew. Arrange the blocks in a pleasing manner. Then rearrange tll you love the setting. Sew.

But your way, find some scraps, sew-- that's absolutely fine too.

Whatever floats your boat. That's the beauty of quilting. We get to do what we like.

I agree . . .

I really enjoy the way scrappy quilts draw you in for a closer look. After you stand back and admired the overall design, you feel a little tug to look closer at the quilting and another tug to view each one of those little multicolored pieces.

I am going to try to attach a picture of my scrap crazy quilt (WPI) I started with a box of scraps from a friend who did a lot of craft work and saved the scraps. I mean real scraps. Then I took a lot of my small bits of material and cut out squares from 2 1/2 to 6 1/2 and the left overs are in this quilt. I am not good at matching colors and with this there is no need.

Scrappy - left overs!

You're a scrappy purist, not scrap-happy. Your avatar is beautiful, not a jumble of stuff from the cutting room floor. What you do with scraps takes huge skill and I admire it enormously. I hope someday I will have enough of an eye for color and tone to do it too.

FYI there is not a lot of meat on the knee. A real scrappy quilt would pick a better spot to bite LOL

I agree with you. That's how those lovely vintage scrap quilts were made :D

All my little squares were from different fabrics, I'd gone to a quilting workshop and collected some tiny pieces from everyone.


I really love the scrappy crazy quilt, that is a great way to use up the scraps.

My scrappy is your scrappy. I save all the fabric shards that aren't big enough to use on their own and "reappropriate" them into scrap quilts. My scraps are really scraps.
I love your avatar,

I read where scrappy quilts were to be made from whatever fabrics you picked up first. Well, I found out that I had a hard time with that. So I just pick through my scraps and find what I think looks okay,(not necessarily stunning) with whatever it is to be sewn to and go with that. When you get them all together it's fine. So I guess my vote would be for "somewhat controlled scrappy", but definitely from my scrap pile.