Originally Posted by
HouseDragon
At the moment I'm making a Jelly Roll Race quilt "just for fun" on my 50-year-old Elna while my Husqvarna is being serviced.
I use two black wire office wastebaskets.
Strips go into one, shake, sew these into one long strip: as the strip forms, it goes into the second basket. The I sew "out of" the second basket and "into" the first.
Repeat until the length doesn't need feeding into a basket to keep it off the floor.
Just make sure no one comes along and throws something away into one of the baskets. DH: "Opps! I guess that isn't trash." Lucky for him, it was a clean piece of paper. When my Quilt Studio is finished I won't have to worry about "invaders" any more! 
I've used baskets, even large bowls, when I'm ironing long strips in half for binding. I also use a "basket purse" from my decoupage days of the 70's for fan-folding so the binding is ready for feeding around the quilt.