Originally Posted by
Mitch's Gram
I often wind up a fairly long leftovers of bindings and mine are also 2 1/4" wide. I save them and when I need a scrappy binding, I just sew them all together or I add them in to other pieces of binding I'm cutting to make a really neat looking scrappy binding. I also use them for pot holders or other small projects. I never toss them unless they are really small pieces.
Same here. I always do 2 1/4 bias bindings, so trying to use them for scrap squares would have the wrong grain. I just save them up, and eventually sew all the different colors together to make a scrap binding for a kids quilt.