I likely have fewer scraps than many here who post saying that they literally have shopping bags full, but I still have a bunch and I am unsure of just how useable they are? A significant portion of the scraps are cut on a long diagonal when I was making a New York Beauty designed quilt and so my thinking is that they are only as useful as the narrow end and their length or can I possibly make weird strings that I think I saw made here
using a paper pieced approach and not care about matching intersections etc? I think this is called "scrappy look" and I sure have scraps
I also read there is a ruler:
Judy Hopkins' ScrapMaster-Plus Ruler and from what I can deduce this is a general rule of thumb device that you can apply to scraps to determine their usefulness and help cut them to usable proportions? As a novice I foolishly bought far more rulers than I will ever use and obviously do not need to add to this wasteful collection...so anyone who has used this, or has another approach or device they use to more mindlessly sort and shape their scraps...I would love to hear from you.