Here is what I had left after I cut the squares. It looks like a lot of waste, but I used a bunch of it in the pieced border.
I like to make miniature quilts out of the leftovers of each quilt I make! I give most quilts away, but I can keep the miniature as a reminder of the original!
(Or the scraps go into the scrap bins for use in a scrappy quilt some day!)