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You will laugh, but I keep everything that is bigger than 1x1. I love scrappy quilts and I guess I am so cheap that I would feel like I was putting money down the drain if I threw them away. I do put anything that looks less than a fat quarter in my scraps and at some point, cut into strips or squares.
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Google "Garbage Can Quilt" and you will get some ideas on what to do with the tiniest scraps.
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WOW! Amazing what talented people are doing with those tiny scraps of fabric. thanks for the site.
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Originally Posted by mic-pa
Less than 1/4 yd is a scrap and right now I am cutting them up to make a scrappy quilt from Bonnie Hunters site www.quiltville.com. I put fat qtr sizes together and anything bigger goes in my regular stash. I have made two scrappy quilts since Christmas and am starting my third one today. After all we did pay 7 -10 $ a yd for most of our fabric so it won't go to waste. Besides, I love scrappy quilts.
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I'm glad I save so many scraps, because I've cut most of them with my AccuquiltGo, and I'm using them as starters and enders. Pretty soon, I'll have a 'free' scrappy quilt. The only scrap quilts I've made before were for my daughter from her family's old clothing. This is fun!
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I actually cut several sizes of strips. 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 & 3inches. On squares, I cut 6.5, 5.5, 4.5, 3.5 and 2.5. I cut every night for about 2 weeks. No I did not have a quilt in mind...I just cut and thought one day I would just start putting them together when I got a big stack. I have the sizes stacked in shoe boxes. I love scraps.
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I actually cut several sizes of strips. 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 & 3inches. On squares, I cut 6.5, 5.5, 4.5, 3.5 and 2.5. I cut every night for about 2 weeks. No I did not have a quilt in mind...I just cut and thought one day I would just start putting them together when I got a big stack. I have the sizes stacked in shoe boxes. I love scraps.
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Great ideas from everyone. Fairly new to quilting I was tossing all small pieces thinking I would never have a use for them. You changed my mind. Thanks
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I keep a bin just for very large "Scraps," then other bins for the smaller scraps. Sometimes I can use the larger scraps for making small items that's why I like to separate them. 8-)
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I keep everything! I also take all the scraps my quilting friends are throwing out. I'm just finishing up a 108" by 108" quilt made of 1" squares from all of these "scraps". I've been offered over $1,000 for it and it's not even quilted yet! I keep two seperate boxes of 1.5" squares and triangles to make 2" squares at all times. I cut these out when my hands are too sore to hand piece or quilt and the quilt bug is biting too hard to ignore. I'm not in a hurry, this is suppose to be a RELAXING hobby!
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Right now I keep everything...I know I can find a use for it somewhere! :)
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I'm saving everything 'till I get my 1 inch strips for a block I want to make but they have to be 9 inch strips I have in a plastic bag. and keep all 2 inch squares,
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