Well, I have thrown a couple of pieces but never out! Too stubborn to let it get the better me and too thrifty to waste the money. It may not have ended up in the original pattern, but I found a use for it in something else. Even colors I no like get made into community quilts (sorry, refuse to call them charity quilts) I enjoy a good challenge now and then. Heck, I even liKe untangling a yarn pile:-)