I haven't been making quilts very long so I didn't have much of a stash or scraps. I ordered material from a couple of different people on this board and that is how I made my scrappy braid quilt and just a scrappy quilt. I just like the look and it was easier for me to get a variety of material than going to the LQS and asking for small amounts of this and that material. I still consider them scrappy even though I purchased the material pretty much with the intent of making a scrappy quilt.. just ended up being two scrappy quilts. lol

Not sure what a "scrappy purist" is :) I've made a heap of scrappy quilts & usually used a controlled color way.Have also done K size string quilts,so whatever works for me.

Don't see what it matters wether the fabric is bought & saved or used & saved since it all ends up in small pieces to be sewn back together.Ah,well....whatever works for you.




I admit I am a scrappy purist.

Ditto

I'm with you, scrappy to me means using up all those boxes of accumulated scrap. Now to qualify this a bit, when I do scrappy, I also would like a bit coordinated. When I did a star quilt with hst's (half square triangles) I pulled boxes of lights and darks, kept my quilt to blues, greens, reds, purples and then lights and darks of those colors. Randomly pulled from squares cut from these and just made sure I had a light/dark combination. (no consideration to the colors put together, just values) Each square was sewn diagonally to make two hst's. Squared all. Then arranged them into blocks with all these random sewn squares, sometimes putting the dark side next to a dark side of the next, sometimes with dark and light together. I'm sorry I don't have a photo of that quilt to show. Again scrappy to me means scraps, but then I have been quilting for 44 years and OH do I have scraps.

I just had to reply to this one! Our guild had Lynn Roddy Brown speak and hold a one day workshop. The only requirement was to bring a handful of our ugliest scraps - preferably some dark and some light. We all made squares from her pattern and then at the end of the day, she put them all on the wall and arranged them in different ways. You would have been surprised how beautiful that "ugly fabric" quilt turned out!

Scrappy to me is 100 reds in a pattern that you could have used one red in. So in my book both your quilting friends and you are scrap artists.
Sorry, your avatar uses neutrals and a a bold pattern, lending a coordinated look to the random fabrics. So I would not classify your quilt as pure (ie completely random) scrappy. A crazy quilt or tumblers would come closer to random scrappy to me.
Personally, I use a combo of pure scraps and fabrics bought for the purpose of making that one quilt plus generating scraps for another down the line.

What a great idea!!!

I agree with you.

Me too BellaBoo - got to agree.
To me scrappy is as many different fabrics as you want, no matter where they came from. Some of my quilts are color controlled, but lots of fabrics, from all sorts of sources. Others are all over the color spectrum. I cannot do 2-5 fabric quilts - I'd be bored out of my skull.
Judi in Ohio

To me, a scrappy is made from whatever fabrics you already have, put together randomly, without thought as to whether or not they match.