Irishrose2

Cathy, your quilts are wonderful, but i don't know what I'd call them.

I can only do controlled scrappy. I have to have a unifying fabric/color. Cathy's second one fits that criteria for me and so does the back of [ATTACH=CONFIG]581428[/ATTACH]my daughter's quilt. Scrappy 16 patches, but connected with a yellow print. I've done this pattern with red where the yellow is and I like it even more. Totally scrappy to me would be any color, any width strip or square and just sewn together. So far I haven't done that, but I am thinking of string blocks from leftover bindings and various miscuts.

granny216

I love this quilt and the use of scraps plus the white and yellow. I can see this in so many colors. plus scraps.

Faintly Artistic

I use the terms interchangeably. I start out to use scraps and always have to add from my stash since my scraps aren't usually enough to make an entire quilt. I tend to make controlled scrappy as I don't always like the totally random look.

Jingle

I call them all scrappy since I just sew scraps together. Otherwise they are matchy, matchy if I only use and follow a pattern and use matching fabrics.

MadQuilter

I suppose I use the terms interchangeably - scrap or scrappy. (Now on occasion I have to leave the "s" out of mine but that's a different style altogether).

NZquilter

Too funny, Madquilter!

Most of my quilts are controlled scrappy and I pretty much use the two words interchangeably.

SusieQOH

Hahahaha!!! Me too, Madquilter! Too funny.

Claire123

I think that a scrappy look is really in the eye of the beholder. While many of my projects have pieces leftover from something else, they really do not have the scrappy look. I have also made things (unintentionally) with charm packs/precuts and had people tell me it had "a nice scrappy look" even though all of the fabric was brand new. It's really just subjective.

joe'smom

What stunning quilts, ladies! Irishrose2, is there a pattern available for that lovely quilt?

WMUTeach

I do not feel a scrap or scrappy quilt is limited to being a "utilitarian" quilt. For instance, my Farmer's Wife
quilt would fit your definition of scrappy but it certainly is not "utilitarian" but will be displayed as a wall quilt. Just one example and I am sure there are others.