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01-22-2012, 06:40 AM

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onaemtnest

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Originally Posted by heyjami

Ok, I think I'm now going to have to prioritize stash over scraps. I now how 2-3 tubs of paper piecing scraps that I couldn't part with. Time to part with them!

What do you do with your small scraps? Anything under 5" really should go.

I wish I could set them out near the end of the driveway and the magic scrap fairy will come and pick them up (promising to make all sorts of beautiful things out of them).

I haven't read through the entire thread as yet, but for me this is what I do.
I have one of those foldable net hampers dollar store thing....Anyway it sits next to my cutting table and as I cut the scrap pieces are thrown in there. When it is full I fill USPS priority boxes .... stuff em' full and offer them to others here on the board to anyone willing to pay the shipping.

I had totes and totes of scraps at one time and found I never seemed to use them and I decided to pass them on to someone who would. When I do make a scrappy quilt I have found a I personally always was searching for a piece that went 'better' with the scrap I was using. Voila! I said to myself, "You are a controlled scrappy person"! So having bins and bins sitting in stacks came to end and the plus was that there are people out there that really can appreciate and more importantly use those scraps.

Oh, just in case you don't realize this....those scraps multiply at night when no one is looking....that's a fact!

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