charhend

I do a lot of appliqué and those scraps come in real handy. They are also good for paper piecing. I have also cut some into 2&1/2 squares for future use. Lets face it quilters.......I will be dead before I use up all of my fabric and scraps!!

Jingle

I have a big tub of scraps and a 12" square box of them. Instead of making so many quilts I need to spend some time cutting them up. I made seven scrappie quilts this year from my scraps, barely used any, I was running out of good choices. I have decided to start sorting them into pieces that squares can be cut out of and save the strips long enough for a rail fence and put in a box. I plan on also cutting my smaller pieces into 2-1/2" strips. I have a plan now just to do it.

quiltingnonie

I keep threatening that I am going to get out my Accuquilt GO and cut strips, but never seen to get around to it

b.zang

Reading about how people cut their scraps makes me wonder what actually constitutes a scrap. If I have a chunk of fabric big enough for a 10" square, or WOF pieces, I don't consider them scraps and keep them with my stash. Well, sort of. I keep those bigger pieces with my fat quarters. Are they scraps?

Scraps for me go into one of those portable drawer kits - each drawer is about 8x10 with 2" height. Four drawers - light, dark, medium & specialty. When they get full, it's scrap quilt time.

Betty Ruth

I cu t scraps into strips and squares. Strips should be 1 1/2 or 2 1/2 inches wide, but mostly, I cut into squares 2 1/2 x 2 1/2, 3 1/2 x 3 1/2, and 4 1/2 x 4 1/2. Anything larger than 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 gets put aside, and any odd size piece, or strip 1 inch or more (but not fitting the criteria for strips, as above) gets thrown in a bin for crumb blocks. Anything smaller than 1 inch goes in the trash can. Needless to say, not much goes in the trash. Right now, I've been cutting lots of 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 blocks for 18 inch square quilts for Threads of Love. It takes nine 6 1/2 x 6 1/2, 36 3 1/2 x 3 1/2, or 81 2 1/2 x 2/1/2 inch blocks for one 18 x 18 inch quilt. I sometimes use the 1 1/2 inch strips to make 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch blocks to use for the little quilts. I started Christmas theme quilts let week.

quilting in my60s

I have a big plastic tub under my cutting table and throw them in there (but not tiny ones) and then once a while I sit on the floor and sort them out and put into large ziploc bags, I have Christmas, fall, Thimbleberries, others when I have enough to make it worth while to separate out.

par4theday

I agree with this way, and I have got several quilts going using this way of cutting, sometimes I just love to trim them up, just recently I sewed all my triangles into the Boston Block, the Hourglass and Half Square Triangles. Then I trim them to the biggest they will make and file them away with the other squares that I have cut for future use. I can just see these fitting into future scrappy quilts to add interest to the block. I like to keep my fabric as big as I can, but do cut the small pieces into squares mostly. If they are in strips, I leave them in strips.

Feathers

I don't cut any of the leftover fabric until I'm ready to use it. I'm the scrap quilt QUEEN...I make more scrappy ones than I do any other. Dresden Plate is also my favorite block....wonder if the reason I like it so well is because my scraps make such beautiful Plates. I have them sorted by size of squares and by strip sizes. iike flowers in God's garden, all scraps "fit" in a quilt. Colorr just makes the piece look like flowers in God's garden.

BETTY62

I put them in a container that keeps shrinking thinking I will use them someday, for something.

Jim

I have always cut what I call scraps into 2 inch squares they are pieces that cant be used as anything bigger. Last two quilts I have made I have used the remants of them to immediately start a scrap quilt...one is completed the other I am working on.