just in case you are not the 'buy-a-board-and-then-spend-all-your-time-folding-instead-of-quilting' type...(like me)... I trim all strings and skinny points off my fabric when cutting for sewing...put trimmings aside. Take the scrap...is it more than 1/4 yd? then fold and put back in the correct color stack. is it less than 1/4 yd? then cut immediately into YOUR preferred size strip (mine is 2.5") and put into shoe box, pizza box (my choice, no wasted space and they stack 10 high if you need them, cost a quarter at my local pizza house and are free at safeway because their 'brown and serve' pizzas are sealed in plastic, so the box is clean). There will be tiny scraps after this strip cutting...add them to the trimming pile. Now take all trimmings and slice back and forth several times with your rotary cutter to make 'confetti'...if you like the confetti quilts...if not, chuck out all the trimmings...
Now you know that there is more than a 1/4 yd in every pc on the shelves and that you have lots of strips ready to sew into any project or quick quilt... maybe a donor block... whatever...
keep a banker's box or basket on the end of your work table...every project STAYS in this box till your project is done... if you cut and trim when cutting your quilt, they will be folded and ready to put away...i only keep them in a box on the table to keep it all together in case i need it before the quilt is done.