Check out Bonnie Hunters system. Makes sense. I've been doing something similar to this - It works for me. Find out what collection you need to make to make a quilt. She also recommends - 1. find the pattern 2. figure out what size they want you to cut everything down to 3. start saving that size.
http://quiltville.com/scrapusersystem.shtml
Check out the crumb quilt she posted on her blog (it's near the bottom)
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2010/...nd-mo-too.html