I save everything. If it's 1" or larger it gets cut into strips and squares. My friend made a small log cabin border with 1" strips and it's so cute, so I want to do that someday for a wall hanging. Anything smaller than 1 gets tossed into a basket that sits on the floor by my cutting table and someday, when I have enough, I'll stuff a dog bed or something with them and give it to one of my dog owner friends. I also save bits of batting in this basket too. I hate to waste anything!

make a postage stamp quilt...After that size, I discard them...or cut them for birds to make nest..

I am almost afraid to say what I did last year(before I knew people wanted them)
For years I kept EVERYTHING, and last spring When I was off work because of necksurgery, I decided to organize my closet.
I threw away 3 kitchensize trashbag full :oops: :oops: of scraps,some as big as 10/10.
I cant believe I admitted that :D

Yep, I'm one of them! Using those little squares for beginners and enders.

there is an active winter square swap right now for 1 1/2" squares.. so maybe you want to sign up? It is a great size to put one through a challenge.. I love to make little pinwheel blocks out of 1 1/2" blocks as of late.. i am nuts!

Now aren't you glad you asked the question.

When I am in the piecing mood, I use scraps that size. Usually in making Pot Holders. Anything else would go too slow.

Please, explain a crumb quilt. I cannot envision it.

Never too small to use - have a look at Susan Carlson's website:
http://www.susancarlson.com/Welcome.html

I'm making a postage stamp quilt right now that requires 1 1/2" pieces. I'm cheating a bit right now because I'm cutting 1 1/2" strips and sewing them together, then slicing them.

I don't have all the 4,000+ pieces already so I'm just sewing as I go, as sort of a "leader and ender" project. I also figure I can buy charm packs and get 9 pieces out of each charm.

Scraps are never too small. I use the teeny ones for fabric postcards, small appliques, crumb blocks, and trashcan fabric, which is where you rescue the dinky pieces from your trash and iron them to wonder under or some kind of iron on fabric and then stitch them down and embellish with ribbons, laces, buttons, etc. You pay for it all, use as much as you can.

Strips of 3 inches or less are great for phone book quilts.

I keep the small stuff, just throw it all in a plastic bin and when I want to make a scrappy quit or a PP project with small pcs. I pull it out. It amazes me when I make an entire quilt of that stuff and don't even put a dent in it.

Same here...been known to throw them away and then dig them out of the trash!

untill I joined this group I was not aware you could do some much with a little piece of material.. Now I save it ALL.... So many awesome ideas.

I save every single scrap unless it is way too narrow. If it's small, I still save it.

I had been wondering the same thing. Thanks for all the answers.

Rettie, another thread sent me to this site: http://quiltville.com/index.html. Under Free Scrap Quilt Patterns, click on Crumbs, Crumbs Crumbs!

What are crumb quilts???

Crumb quilts are scrap quilts made with tiny pieces of fabric. If you like scrap quilts you'll like them. I think they are beautiful quilts and they use up fabric that may otherwise be pitched in the trash. This helps the earth and our wallets at the same time :)

Here are 2 tutorials about them. Enjoy!

http://quiltingisstillmypassion.blog...-tutorial.html
http://www.quiltville.com/crumbs.shtml

You could google crumb quilts or crumb quilt tutorials and find more info on them.

thank you
I think that is what my Gram called crazy quilts - she just kept adding fabrics until it was beautiful. We could see our old clothes, aprons, etc. They were the best quilts. None remain because they were used on our beds every night. I have one that is in shreds, my son will probably put it in the trash.

I've been saving everything lately.

Being the anal retentive person that I am, I've spent the last couple of days 'organizing' my scraps (meaning cutting them into squares/rectangles) The smallest dimension I have is 1 1/2 inches. Whatever's smaller, it gets pitched

what is a "crumb quilt"?

I make minis from 1"squares, If you don't use that size ,send them on. Those of us that make use of those oh so tiny pieces love to recieve them.

Depends on how small of stuff you like to work on. I won't save anything smaller than 2 1/2 inches wide.

Thank you, Scrap Happy. Wouldn't you know, this is something I've been doing for years. The first quilt I made by this method was for my daughter as she went away to college. She is now 53 years old.l Will wonders never cease?

I would suggest going to Bonnie Hunter's web site, Custom Quilting.com and checking out her scrap saver's system. See if it is anything you could use. I think it would be great if a person took the time to get it going. That's been my problem, I don't take the time to do it. But it sounds great. :-D

Nice looking but way too small for me. lol.

Thanks for the info on crumb quilts. Have made 8 6"x 7" blocke and like the look so will keep going will send pic when done Pam

An old saying applies here. Scraps are in the eye of the beholder, a scrap to you may not be a scrap to me :)

LOL! Good one. Or one quilters scrap garbage is another quilters scrap treasure :-P

What is a crumb quilt. I don't have the heart to throw scraps away unless it is to ragged with strings. I would love to start using them. Thanks

Shirley, scroll up 4 posts above yours (if I counted right) and you'll see an explanation and some links.

Teresa, what's a crumb quilt? I seen that phrase on here before, but don't know what that is. Thanks.