If I may make a suggestion....I waited too long to sort my scraps. Don't wait too long before you start sorting and seriously using yours! I've been quilting for nearly 40 years now, and only in the last 1 1/2 years or so have I been sorting, pressing and cutting my scraps into precuts and storing those. I have so many layer cakes, charms, 3.5, 2.5, 2., and 1.5 inch strips that I'm considering how to store all the 'precuts' I have now. I have a multi drawer Sterilite cabinet that is chock full, plus another plastic bin (just full of charms) and I've run out of room. I need to re-think how I'm storing all of it now. I've made at least 8 quilts out of that stash so far and you'd never know I'd pulled all the fabric out of the stacks. I have at least another couple years worth of time to finish cutting up the scraps....but at least I'm using it really well now. I've got scraps from the 1950's to current...its a trip down memory lane doing it, and enjoy watching movies as I work.