I am a scrappy quilt lover and honestly should never buy more than a fat quarter. Not happening! I make a lot of quilts that I love but “Roscoe” and “ So. Any Strips” are stand-out favorites. I basically use reproduction fabrics, both 30’s and Civil War, every year I set January aside to clean out my Scrap bins and I use it all for donation quilts for a church group that donates to a women’s shelter.

I have made one table runner from batik fabric scraps. I wanted to make the pattern to try a technique. About twice a year, I send scrap fabrics to one of the ladies in the local guide for charity quilts/projects. I'm just not a scrappy quilter.

I must have a color scheme of some type, but will range far and wide into that scheme. I tried a random scrap project once, and abandoned the idea pretty quickly - just not my thing.

I love to look at the scrappy quilts but have never made one. Some day I hope to just dig into my scrap bin (which I have been saving scraps for a long time) and just sew fabric together and then square up whatever size I feel is sufficient. I would like to make blocks with strips of my fabric and hopefully I can start on that soon.

I feel there is a "controlled" scrappy which is a number of colors but in lots of various fabrics and then there is "SCRAPPY" where you just pick up a piece of fabric and go with it. I never liked scrappy anything when I first got into making quilts. Then I decided to try one of Bonnie Hunter's pattern, her Pineapple Blossom pattern. Made it very scrappy and fell in love with "SCRAPPY". Of course once it was quilted I loved it even more as I feel the quilting adds to the quilt itself. I normally don't do the same pattern if I can help it but made this pattern again but "Controlled" scrappy and fell in love again with scrappy. Here are the 2 quilts, both ended up as wedding gifts for 2 couples. Also showing the quilting on the backside. Used the same quilting patterns for both, one in I think white/creme thread and the other in a red thread which was also my 1st time using a colored thread. Loved it.

Now I make mostly scrappy or what I call "very colorful".

Suz,
Both quilts are beautiful! I love all scrappy quilts, and that's about all I make. I donate them to our local hospital in the infusion center.

Suz, OMG both are beautiful and then the back! OMG, again. Do you cry when you gift a quilt? Do they cry when they get a quilt from you? (Maybe idea for new thread?) TYSM for posting your quilts.

I'm musing as I read this thread. Back in the past the color choices were more limited than today and so their fabrics naturally went together for that reason. Now we can utilize every color in the rainbow along with their tints and shades which has made all the difference.

Great conversation

PS I don't want my quilts to look like "dog vomit"!

My scrappy quilts come out of my scrap bins as I pull them out. A quilt pattern may be in mind. My favorite scrappy quilt pattern is the Depression Block; It is all HSTs one side light and one side dark. Makes for a great pattern for a special and scrappy quilt. Once I have all the the hst's cut they all get mushed back into a bin again and then the blocks are sewn together. It is a fun quilt to make. There are others I make too. I love making scrappy quilts.

Lovely indeed!