Thank you all for sharing what you do when it comes to scrappy strips. It sound like you all have a plan and I guess that's what I need to do... make a plan.
I love the ways you use these strips for piano key borders and other strip quilts. I make baby quilts for the preemie ward at our local hospital so that's how I'll be using a lot of my scraps. The size for those, 36" x 42" really does determine the size of strips I should make I guess.
Thanks again.