I was just with some friends on Thursday piecing my scrappy quilt. I had four grocery bags (plastic ones) full of scraps - they thought I was strange for keeping such small scraps - BUT I'm the only one of us who has not had to go out and buy fabric to finish my scrappy quilt :). I keep all small piecs up to 1" wide. I have begun saving my SCRAPS in a Mason jar - I will use it as a decoration in my sewing room when it is full - very colorful. Small, small, small bits of fabric (like those teeny tiny triangles cut off hsq triangles after they are sewn together) and the slight pieces cut off during squaring up!! I save so many of my 'scraps' - I mean I paid for it - why not use it - in a scrap pattern sometime!!