Pic. 5. I take all those little scraps of and inch to two inches and use them for leader-enders when I am sewing. Eventually, the little piece gets bigger and bigger. Then I take my template, ( I chose a diamond for this project) and cut out the shape. Eventually, I will have a quilt. The trick here is to square off one edge, put two squared off edges together and sew a 1/4 inch seam. It grows quicker than you think. I take half an hour or so once in a while and get a pile pinned together. Then they go by my machine and are ready to grab. After each one is sewn, I iron and toss in a box to wait until it is time to trim a bunch all at once.