It depends on the trimmings and if I want to see all those little snippings. Mostly in a see through plastic bin.

:::::ducking and running::::::: I throw thenm out, I hate a ton of little fabric...............la la de do da

LOL Happytails, good you knew to head for cover right away!!

I use mine for small applique projects. God bless.

I put mine out in the yard in the fall. The birds like the scraps and threads to add to there nests! It's amazing how they will pick only certain colors. But by winter they are all gone.

I also am making a selvedge quilt. So far I have made 4 squares. :lol: . I saw a quilt done in salvedges a couple of years ago and decided to make one. But not gotten very far. I only work on it when I have noting else to do. HA HA.
I like to leave about 1/4- 1/2 inch of color.
Maybe I will get it finished in this life time.

Could you post a picture of the landscapes and pictures?

I have a friend who made a bag (purse size) from selvages. It is very "eye catching." I like to think that quilters are frugal people--waste not, want not.

oh am I in big trouble..................

This may sound like I am wasting my scraps (I mean the tinniest weiniest of pieces, sometimes smaller than a 1/4" corner), but I am filling up a plastic bag and planning to make a doggie bed for my Lhasa puppy. He is usually at my feet or by my side when I am quilting, so I thought I would make him something special and easy to throw in the washer when needed. I can't believe how much of this scrap stuff I tossed before I got this brain fart to keep it for a doggie bed.

OMG, my Lhasa puppy Sammy put a 3x3" hole in the corner of my heavy, winter quilt that is on my bed and pulled out the stuffing. I was lying down with elevated blood pressure and he got the idea to tear it (clean cut). Bad, bad doggy, but after looking into his big brown eyes I couldn't stay mad at him for long. I guess I will needle and thread it and mark this scar as a short story every time I see it.

Good thing he's not destructive, or he would have a field day at my bookcase with all my quilting things on it. Now that I think about it, I know why he did that. When I first brought him home he didn't bother chewing anything, but once I gave him a chew bone he started on shoes too. Took the bones away and it stopped. My granddaughter took out some of his chew toys and it started over again. Hopefully it won't happen again.

last year i saw where a quilter had taken all her little dogears & put them into a clear christmas ornament... she had painted the year inside it somehow first...
i thought that was great.. see different fabrics every year!

We are cutting them all up in 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch rectangles and then sewing them on adding machine paper like some one showed on this board.


String Piecing on adding machine paper

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-56940-1.htm


Also the trimmings left from that can be used for

fabric from the garbage bag

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-58917-1.htm

After that I do not think much would be left.

well, i just made pillows for a local pet shelter. i am teaching quilting to a group from a local rehab center and put out a call for quilt scraps. guess what i got???? LOTS of double knit and a huge box of SCRAPS - i mean unusable strings, etc. two washers full of ladies blouses, some old stained t-shirts and old double knit pants. so, rather than throw it all away, i sewed the t-shirts closed at arms & bottom, left opening at neck, stuffed them with a little bit of scraps then sewed the neck closed. my DD's SINL said she put them in the dog beds and they just LOVED 'em. she boards dogs for our local shelter. i cut the pants up and made pads to go in the bottom of pet carriers. so everything got used.

Several years ago I went to a retreat and at the end of the day we gathered up all of our little scraps and thread ends. The larger pieces we just cut back and forth with the rotary cutter until they were very small. Then we drew a free hand picture on a piece of muslin, covered that with a piece of fusible web and then sprinkled those little snippets in the different areas. Cover everything with a pressing cloth and steam it until the web is gone. After that it could be FMQ if there are loose pieces. It actually was a lot of fun.