brandeesmom

Now thats my kind of scrappy! Nice work, I love your quilt!

butter14562

Very nice quilts.. I have the same problem when I look into my scrap boxes. That I carefully cut into my someday scrap Quilt. I think, I could go with both methods of doing them, not controlled, and kinda controlled. But I think when I get enough, I leaning towards the value, and pulling out of bag! Nice to know my mind has company,and I am not alone.

quiltingbuddy

I like controlled scrappy quilts too. If it doesn't work, it doesn't go in! And I guess I do use sashings to bring some sense of unity when needed, whatever the quilt says it needs, that's what it gets!

moneill

Why don't you look at the QB Scrappy Quilt Show Pictures. There's so many of them and you can see what appeals to you. I find looking at these helpful. http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...e-t135936.html

sewbeadit

With scrappy quilts I really tend to like the ones that are really scrappy and mixed up, but saying that I haven't seen one I didn't like, controlled or uncontrolled. I think all colors/prints go together when scrappy quilting and in the garden! If I had a bunch of dull colors I would add bright colors to liven it up.

stitch678

I have seen photos of some really ugly scrap quilts. These, l find are the result of totally unplanned sewing .The advice to sort light/dark and use a "pattern" that shows up using contrast, or sashing, or a "theme" fabric throughout is sound.Why put all the work and energy into something you won't like?

sandy l

Same here

WMUTeach

Along with others who posted, at first a true scrappy, totally unplanned color combinations, looks terrible but as the quilt grows the colors seem to just snug up close to eachother and play well together. I love those truly random looks. It also allows me to just build the quilt without sorting through piles, boxes and bins of scraps. Now, if you have a depth of scraps that allows you to focus on one kind of fabric, batiks or reproduction prints for instance, then go ahead and use one kind of fabric in a single quilt. You will see so many good examples of both kinds on the Quilting Board. Half of the challenge is getting over planning every color in the block. For the most part I have found it freeing and the end products are glorious fun to see.

I do from time to time pick a single fabric as sashing to tie all of the beauty of the random color choices together but not always. In the end, do what feels good and right for you. Like all quilting, it is the adventure of creation that keeps us coming back again and again.

red-warrior

Thank you DogHouseMom that really helped me to see a visual!!!

SouthPStitches

I have a very difficult time making a scrappy but love the finished product. It's hard for me to give up "control" so mine are definitely controlled scrappies. It isn't just the color that fights me, its the fabric content (can't put a Halloween print next to a Christmas print).

My good friend and fellow QB member Jennie Penny offered this advice. "Audition the fabric you are thinking of using by gathering them up and putting the pile on a stair landing or on the bottom of a set of stairs. Now walk up the stairs half way or farther and look down. The fabrics that aren't working will pop right out at you". This has worked like a charm. Many times I was POSITIVE of my choice in a fabric then found it to be completely wrong using Jenn's method.