Originally Posted by
Onebyone
It became clear to me after I saved bins of scraps that I am a scrap saver not a scrap user. Have a plan to use your scraps before they multiply. My plan is I save them until one small bin gets full and then use them in a quilt or get rid of them.
I have found that I am also not a scrap user. I have saved most of my scraps, but I really shouldn't bother. I noticed long ago that I had spent LOTS of time organizing my scraps, and I rarely used any of them. Now my scraps just go all together in one drawer, and when that drawer gets too full....well, guess I will have to figure out what I do then.
I took a batch of scraps from one quilt to our guild meeting once, and labeled them "free." The next month when I showed the quilt I had finished, someone else said "I don't know who brought these scraps, but here is what I made." It was sort of neat. We showed our quilts at the same time, just because the quilters wanted to see them side by side.
Maybe I will do something like that again. Those were large scraps though, 10 inch squares. (I had made my own layer cake and had extra squares.)
Dina