It seems we keep everything, and make great use of it all. I give mine to my friend who make feline beds to raise money for feline lukemia.

There is a product called Heat Press Batting Together. I saw it on a tutorial and my Local Quilt Shop ordered it. It works great. Just cut the edges straight and iron it on. No more zig zaggin for me.

KEEP, they are great to practice your free motion quilting on...or testing ANY quilting before you put it on your project

Our guild makes cancer pillows and dog beds for local no-kill shelter. My grandkids are always making a critter of some sort that needs stuffing.

What a great idea!!!

Hey, I save mine and last night used them to fill in a crack where the wind was blowing into my new sewing room addition!

My daughter gave me a bad time about saving the small pieces of batting but I use them for packing breakables that I mail. She now comes over to get some when she needs to mail breakables.
Sometimes the bigger pieces can be joined together for a smaller quilt or to use for trapunto.

I had even kept strips less than an inch, thinking I'd use them in a pillow. A few weeks ago we had a blizzard here in wisconsin and at about 4PM, after the local hardware store was closed, not just cold, but snow starting blowing in around my front door. Of course, we didn't have any weatherstripping. SO, I took those batting strips and shoved them in the crack between the door and the frame and taped over it. Not classy, but worth every time I tripped over that bag!

There is special batting for pot holders so don't use regular quilt batting in them.

I use left over small strips of lightweight pellon used as stablizer for t-shirt quilts and just iron it on the two pieces. No need to zig-zag.