Our local garage likes to get them to soak up grease and oil.

I made a crumb quilt with my scraps.

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...45965719XDkBtt

The blocks I'm making now have smaller pieces than the above quilt does. Quilting with no rules!

I take those itty-bitty bits & mix them in with stuffing to fill stuffed animals for community service(my quilt guild contributes stuffed animals to local police & firemen for children in distressful situations). It works well!

In our area we save the bits and pieces and thread cut offs for our local YMCA collects these pieces and sends them to the shredder to recycle them. It helps to keep it out of the landfills and makes us feel good for we are making new product. Once you get into the habit it is simple to just throw into a box and bag up when full.

I've read that you shouldn't give birds your scraps because the babies get tangled up in the threads, and the fabric holds moisture. (I don't know, everybody seems to have different ideas about this!)

Give them to Salvation Army. They bale them and sell them to some foreign country who recycles.

Wow, Ann Marie. That is something else. Please let us see it when your done.

There are people who make their own paper with some small scraps blended in. I have always wanted to do it,but....Too many other things to accomplish. I really don't need another interest to distract me :?

so either way, stuffing is the best, Thanks for the tip!

I save mine in a ziplock bag, and take them to the elementary school for the teachers to use in art classes. Great for Collages and whatever