purplefiend

My definition of scrappy is using up leftovers from other quilt projects. I have made planned scrappy quilts, but mostly true scrap quilts. My friends give me their scraps and I have a good time. The pictures you see below are my
scrap quilts, made using my scrap bags.
My avatar is a scrap quilt made from a combination of scraps and yardage.
Sharon W.

JJean

Roberta Horton wrote a book called Scrap Quilts the Art of Making Do published in 1998. She asks the question what is a scrap quilt? She comes up with a list of ingredients. How many fabrics should be in a scrap quilt? Is there a magic number? She doesn't think so. She heard a story of a quilt moved out of the scrap category in a national competition because it contained only 65 rather than their required 75 fabrics. She shows a photo of a quilt from her collection with only 11 fabrics, but she considers it a scrap quilt. She loves fabrics and thinks quilts made with a lot of different fabrics give her more to look at and hence more to love. "A scrap quilt is impossible to memorize. It would require a lengthy phone conversation to a fellow quiltmaker to describe."

Bjbaxter

I love scrappy, but you have to make a lot of quilts in order to have left over scraps!

mrs. fitz

QuiltSage - a few weeks ago my cousin emailed me "you've got to see these";it was your post with several different quilts. I liked them so much I bookmarked the page and occasionally take another look because they make me smile. Love your avatar, very scrappy indeed, and my favorite from the earlier posting is Rouchsters, altho I loved them all.

Seeing your name above gave me a perfect opportunity to let you know you have two fans in NJ. Beautiful variety of work.

Feathers

I agree, this has been a great and very interesting thread and topic. My idea of scrappy is pretty much what everyone else is saying....random, RANDOM, RANDOM!

quiltingal

My scrappy quilts are controlled in the fact that I do not want 2 blues or 2 browns together. I use scraps from my stash in possible but if I need more red or blue I will cut from my stash. I love scrappy quilts no matter how they are made.

Pieceful Quilter

I think it can be either or a combination of the two. My avatar was from some fat quarters, some tiny scraps of neutrals, and some larger leftovers that I liked...

BTW - I love your avatar.

Pieceful Quilter

OK, so I am in the process of making a "spools" quilt. All the backgrounds are yellow - two to five of each shade of yellow, some of which I had, some that were given to me, two or three fat quarters I bought to make up the difference. The spools are all different - all leftovers from other projects.

Since I bought a couple of fat quarters to get enough yellow, which "scrappy sorta thingy-ish" category will my quilt fall into?

rannyof3

Your avatar is beautiful, but scrappy to me, means totally scrappy. No rhymn or reason or pattern. LOL. Maybe that's why I've never done a completed one...

playswithcolor

I'm wondering if the use of FQ's and making multiple fabric quilts has been making the definition of scrappy a little murky?

I like the narrower definiton of being made from scraps.

My problem area is with traditional patterns made with one unifying fabric plus the rest from scraps. I still consider these scrap quilts.

Kind of conflicts with the narrower definition though.