What do you do with all your snippets and trimmings from blocks etc. Do you display them in a jar or save them in a box or what. I have quite a few and hate to throw them away.

Displaying them in a jar sounds good. Or, you can mail them to another member that will use them. There's a lady on here that mails me her selvages because when I get enough I'm going to make a quilt (Maybe a Rocky Road to Kansas) with them.

Rapture, what sizes?? I'd be glad to save some for you!

I like them with some of the fabric on them but there doesn't have to be. The writing is what's important to me. The bit of fabic is so that I won't have to sew into the writing. Someone posted on here about using adding machine paper to make scrappy strips and I may use that for my Selvaged Quilt. I'm thinking that I may sew the selvages on the strips of paper, cut them to the same length then sew a small corner on both ends and a large triangle on each side. As soon as I get my 4 or 5 Christmas gift quilts done I'm going to start on this one.

So you mean the selveges??? I'd be glad to save some! I also have those Moda thingies you hold jelly rolls together with.
(Brain not working today) Just let me know.
I have about 6 WIP right now and have been cutting up a storm :)

Rapture ready, does it matter if the salvages are short? I usually buya third of a yard, because I love scrappy quilts. If that is long enough, I would save mine for you too.

I keep a medium flat rate box under my desk and when it is over flowing I offer it for the cost of shipping. There is always someone on here that will take it off your hands no matter the size of scraps. A great way to recycle. I kept fooling myself into thinking I would use them, not anymore.

There are people on the board who would love your scraps. Do a search for scraps. Some will even take the tiniest scraps and use them if you don't want to.

No, I am not talking about the selvedges. I am talking about the fabric that is trimmed off when you square up a block or whatever.

Thanks, I will have to check when I have more time to raoam around.

What part of Ky. are you located. I may be fairly close to take the fabric to you if you are interested. I live in Dayton Ohio.

Who are you referring too?

Quilt Jelly!!!!

What a cute idea with the dog ears in a jar! I save even the smallest snippets in a separate box and use them for pillow stuffing.

Every one of my snippets and trimmings go into a big box, this includes pieces of batting that are trimmed off before you are ready to add your binding.
When I have enough of them, I make a pillow case/form, stitch all the way around it but leave an opening for stuffing those trimmings into. then I close up the opening and make either a quilted pillow cover or just plaine fabric pillow cover. Not a single thing get's waisted around my sewing room, even the pillow form is made from either scraps of fabric or actual pillow cases I picked up at a garage sale really really cheap! and then they are cut down and made into smaller pillow forms.

I cut them to the smallest I can, keep them and when I have plenty of them I fill a neck pillow,or another small pillow for the grandchildren.

Thanks Mommymom-That is what I was thinking about doing.

Okay I love that jar. I am so going to do that!

Ditto!

That looks really cute!! I chuckle everytime I see your avatar b/c of your girl with the funny expression. Always makes me smile! The 3 of you are adorable :D

LOVE the look of the fabric snips in the jar!

Gonna give that a try

Quilt jelly? I love the idea..looks pretty in a jar!

Thank you all. I heard about quilt jelly years ago. Enough years that I don't remember where I heard it. My jar is a half gallon mason jar. The dog ears in side have been collected for years. I started with a pint jar.
The girls in my avitar are my twins. They are 17, and starting their sr. in high school this week.

I have a big popcorn tin full of snippit scraps. Someday I might do something with them.

There you are again!! Another chuckle and smile for me!!!!!!!!
I didn't realize they were twins!!

I am saving mine for stuffing. This is the project:

http://yesimadethat.blogspot.com/200...stone-rug.html

Yes, quilt jelly!

I used to save all my bunny ears until a few years ago. I used my empty coffee jars so that they all had the same jar and decorated my empty space on the shelves. There is no empty space anymore, so no more jars. I liked looking at the contents and remembering which quilt supplied which ears!

I love that jar. I do use mine for pillows too. My bulldog LOVES pillows, so I make her alot, They get gross after awhile, so I can toss them with out guilt!

I have a three drawer plastic chest. I keep very small snippets in one for pictures and landscapes. Medium size in another for PP and larger pieces in the third for odds and ends.

I saw a demo (somewhere) where the person made a block and sprinkled the little corners all over the fabric, covered it with tulle netting (or mesh, whatever you call it) and crazy stitched all over it and made a finished block that was really colorful. I was working with silvery material and I thought that I would try it - but, then I lost all the little scraps - don't ask me how - the gremlins got them.

I use my small scraps as either a pillow stuffing for the dogs or as piecing for a new pot holder. The scaps are just the right size for pot holders and you can get some really pretty ones from the scaps that you used in your quilts or small projects.

I recently posted a tutorial under "garbage can fabrics" that uses these types of trimmings and snippets. It is one way to get "fabric" out of stuff that might otherwise go into the trash can. Check it out and see if it interests you.

I save some for my quilt journal. I save only those that are larger than an inch. I can use even crumbs in paper-piecing, but the others, especially those long strips from evening up my fabric--those go straight into the trash. My goodness, my fabric will take over the house if I don't keep it under control, and I doubt anyone will find a use for the stuff I throw away.

My 2,4,& 6 year old strow them out all over the house. They like to 'make' things with them. Until I find the cat tied up in the corner I am happy to let them occupy themselves with the scraps. I did see a blog on here the other day where someone attached them to iron-on interfacing and made a really cool looking quilt. Couldn't find the link. I will probably start making a jar with my dog ears. That is kinda neat.

Some quilt guilds make dog beds and they request scraps of fabric and batting for the dog bed "stuffing".

Very smart idea to use a flat rate box and then send to someone who wants them for the cost of shipping!

One of my quilt groups, Quilting Angels, collects snippets, pieces, and batting trimmings. Then once a year we gather round with rotary cutters and chop it all up. We make fabric pillows of all sizes, stuff them with the trimmings, and donate them to the local animal shelter. We just finished making 184 pet beds last month!!!

Dear Baloonatic-That sounds like a neat idea for the pets. Thanks. Also, sthe quilt shop that I use the most told me stos br ing in my trimmings etc. and put them in their box for things slike that and then when I need something to come and help myself.

We have people in our area tht use them for filling dog beds. Our guild collects scraps for them.

The long thin lengths I use for tying vines, etc. Small strings, snippets, during the spring season, I spread out near trees for birds to add color to their nests.