It depends on what kind of patterns you tend to make if you should cut them or not - if you make lots of patterns using squares, cut them into squares etc. I never know what I'm going to use mine for so they're sorted into tubs by colour - pink thru red, cream thru brown, black, grey and purple, green, blue - 5 tubs in all. A 'scrap' to me is anything smaller than FQ and I keep everything down to around a half inch as I might want to do mosaic or confetti one day. My DH says I'm so anal I even have a tub labelled 'Scraps Too Small to be Useful' - this is NOT true!!! :mrgreen: :lol: :D