Peggy I am with you on the crumb thing...and I think the key is the size of the crumbs. If they are too small the whole exercise is frustrating and the seams are a nightmare.
I also get really mad when the refrain of thriftiness comes up over and over for quilters...it is not a limitation other artists put on themselves, so why quilters? I suspect it is an echo of the sexism and gender stereotyping of the past, where women did not control any of the household discretionary spending.
All that said, I am all for scrap busting...just not frustrating scrap busting. It can be surprisingly hard to find a scrap busting approach that is not drudgery-laden!
So here is a wonderful video from one of my favourite quilt bloggers for you! She made a fantastic "crumb" quilt that is gloriously colourful:
https://agilejack1.com/2022/07/04/ag...lock-tutorial/
she links to her YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RgB3ZsGRJU