Other peoples' scraps ...
Are gold to me.
So I make pet beds for the local vets and animal rescue. I've asked the local thrift shop and my fellow quilters to save their trimmings and bits that otherwise would be tossed in the trash. I will take anything as long as its washable. I have to sort through the bags of stuff to be sure that there is no paper or sharps. I find chunks of lovely fabric - one lady even gives me what she's sorted out of her stash - and lots that might just be considered pre-cuts. I spent yesterday - after I finished the pet beds from the previous collection, playing with what I'd found.
I've made 9 Christmas mug rugs from the Christmas trimmings and a stack of 4" blocks which had not sold at the thrift shop so they's been tossed - bag and all! I just have to pull the backing fabric from my stash. And I still have the time HST bits which make a pinwheel block about 3" square. My DD thinks I've got loco.
Will post pictures when I find my camera.