Hi Jewelps and welcome to the board from Washington State.
There is a great site that will show you ways to use up your small pieces fo material to make quilts at:
http://www.quiltville.com/
As for your binding question I know there are many, many more people here better suited to answer that question. I can tell you that when I got stuck on a binding a while back I found a YouTube video that helped me out. It was good to actually SEE someone show how to attach a binding.