I love scrap quilts too! I had my "scraps" sorted by color and had a plastic box for each color. Last year, while I was laid up with a broken foot, I cut everything up into usable pieces. I saved fat quarters but anything smaller than that got cut up. If the piece was long, it was cut into strips as wide as 6", as small as 1". So if a piece was 8" wide, I'd cut it into 6" and 2" strips. I decided on 6" strips because if I need a 6" square, I can cut from that or if I need 3" strips, I can cut two, 2" strips, I can cut 3, etc. If it was not a long piece, I'd cut it into squares, as large as 5" (because I have the "nickel" quilt books) as small as 2". I now have boxes full of strips in every size from 1" to 6" and squares in every size from 2" to 5". For years, I never opened those old boxes of scraps, but I have been surprised to find in just the last year, how often I pull strips or squares for a scrappy quilt and I know just where to find the right size pieces! If I don't have enough of the right color in my strips and squares, then I move on to the fat quarters, and if that's still not enough, I move to my yardage pieces and cut a strip or two from those.