Originally Posted by BellaBoo
I didn't use to use my scraps at all until I realized just how much yardage I was tossing away.
On one of the earlier quilts I made I did the math and figured out the yardage difference between two different methods of flying geese. The difference was a full yard. That yard would have been reduced to waste triangles. I made sure after I figured the difference for that quilt that I don't use any "waste" methods for big quilts any more.
Everyone should learn how to do quilt math. It's really not all that hard if you use a calculator.