How long are these tails you're all talking about? The trimmings from my bindings are very short (3" maybe) with 45º ends. Sewn together end to end, it'd be so full of seams as to be unuseable as a new binding.

Thanks RkayD- just added ANOTHER one to my favorites-it's so neat and something different. I used the weaving idea on potholders at Christmas, but never thought of doing a rug. Great gift idea!!!!

I save them and sew them together in a long strip. this will make one big piece of material then I will cut out dunkards path from it. I will use some of the strips for half of the dunkards then some plain material for the other half. I saw it on TV. I can't think of the woman's name - big name in quilting. She had some lady on her show that did this. Not with binding strips but just cut strips and sewed them together until she got a big sheet of material.

i am going to sew them together and make a strip quit for charity. I will probably sew them together on the diagoal to give a bit of character. I even save the small triangles that are cut when sewing them together and put two together in a square for the center of a string quilt.

I have used them to bind scrappy quilts, but lately I've just been keeping them in a bag. When I have enough I'm going to make a bunch of log cabin-type blocks. I'll use a foundation and lay a square on it, and then surround it by the pieces of binding.

I have a box full and am going to try the rug with clothes line that is tutored in this board....bought the line at the dollar store..looks like fun

Wow, love that, I have been using quilts for years as rugs, but I like the way that one is pieced together

Thanks for the tutorial. I've bookmarked it and hope to be making this rug soon!

I seem to have an irrational fear of not having enough binding for a planned quilt so I measure it out a bit too generously. Doesn't help that I don't actually measure it, I run it around the edge of my quilt with ample inches allowed for mitering corners. As a result, I too end up with leftover binding. Sometimes as little as 18" but usually much more. I also have them saved in my scraps in a ziploc baggy marked "bits 'o binding". I will use them in a scrappy quilt as they are already pressed right sides together and ready as binding. I can't be bothered with pressing them flat again to use as strips in piece work, I get enough of those when I am doing regular cutting for patchwork.

someone I know saves all kinds of scraps and either uses them to make stuffing for dog beds for the shelter or cuts them very small and puts them in a basket to hang in a tree for the birds to use in building their nests. Who would have thought??