Here's how I cut all my scraps (and I had TONS of them, organized by color) while I was recuperating from a broken foot last year. First I cut strips from any scraps that were longer than 12 inches. I cut strips as wide as 4 inches and as narrow as 1 inch, depending on the size of the scrap. If it was 5 inches wide, I'd cut two strips 2.5 inches, if it was 6 inches, two 3 inch strips. I put these in plastic boxes by size, 1", 2", 2.5", 3", 3.5" and 4" and sorted them lights and darks. The remaining scraps I cut into squares, again, according to the size of the scraps. I cut largest squares first, the 5" squares, and then 4", 3.5", 3", 2.5" and the smallest being 2". Anything smaller than 2" I cut one inch off and threw the rest away. I figure someday I will make log cabin blocks with the strips. There are a lot of patterns that call for 2.5" strips, especially Ellenor Burns patterns. My friend made small log cabin blocks with 1" strips and used them for a border and they are just adorable. I had about 8 or 10 plastic boxes of scraps so this took me a long time, but I had nothing better to do while recuperating. I'm working on UFOs this year, but when I'm caught up on all these past projects, I'm anxious to tackle some long cabin blocks using my precut strips. I've already used quite a few of the 2.5" squares for 3 different quilts. I just sorted through them to find the colors I needed. This works good for me since I love scrappy quilts!