quiltmaker's newest magazine has an article where the lady sews any size, any color and keeps sewing until it can be cut into the size square you want, this is done without a foundation and she calls it "making fabric". I'm doing this with 2 containers of scraps, the first day I sewed 25 blocks before I got up.....normally I would throw away small scraps but not anymore

Lots of good ideas for scraps. Thanks to everyone for sharing.

The threads can also become tangled in the babies feet, (claws/toes?) Not a good thing.

As a newbie (2 yrs) I cut mine into 1.5x6" strips and made a fabric wreath. I had many fond memories what each strip came from and proud how much I have a accomplished. AND I have a cool wall art that I made.

I can't imagine how long it will take me to use up my scraps of almost 30 years of quilting. (I have them all sorted by size and color, measured and marked). I DO know that the first one will be for ME to remind me of all the quilts I have shared with so many others. I have made only one 'scrappy' quilt and wasn't even from scraps. It was a queen PP star that I cut a piece from the corner of many new pieces of my stash. Sounds stupid, but it turned out to be a great quilt until it came to tearing off the paper. Enjoy seeing so many of QB members quilts, scrappy and all others.

Scrappy ideas....
 

Thanks for the "scrappy" dog bed idea, it might take years though as I've got a REALLY big dog.... :) and I'd have to use all my tiny tiny scraps as with the other ones, that's what I make, it uses up quite a bit and one always need a little gift for a friend along the line or I even gave them for a market sale for charity

twinkie: I'm inquisitive as to how many inches shrinks up with your quilt with the feather quilting? I had sent out a quilt to be MQ'd with close meander and it shrunk up several inches to my amazement. Did you allow for the shrinkage when you made this quilt top? Your quilt is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

I'm currently using my scraps to make a Dear Jane quilt - which is my way of practising a large variety of blocks and thus techniques without spending much money on fabric. Since the blocks are small, the parts are even smaller and so a lot of tiny scraps can be used.

My latest WIP. I am making it for a silent auction to benefit a family of a friend. Her daughter has been in the hospital for diagnosed her with vasculitis.

My scraps are done a la Bonnie Hunter. Finding string blocks has opened up my world. There is a gorgeous string block called herringbone on www.quiltinggallary.com read the first two paragraphs and it says in second paragraph free patterns, etc. Herringbone is the first tutorial - what a great way to use scraps & strings. I use small strings btw - mostly 1" a bit under and over. I have containers of 1 1/2" strips, 2" & 2 1/2" strips.