maviskw

http://www.quiltville.com/crumbs.shtml

I went to this site and had a heck of a time finding the Spiderweb quilt. I looked around for quite a while and then found it. I printed it out and then went out of the site to see if I could find it again. Couldn't! Then I looked again and found a list of quilts at the right side of the home page, quite a way down the page. There is the list of quilts in alphabetical order. That way I got back into the Spiderweb site.

I don't cut up my scraps. If I would have them cut into squares, how would I make a string quilt of any kind? I cut up scraps as I need them. With confetti quilts, sometimes the piece is just a little too small. Maybe a half inch of triangle is missing at one corner. You'd be surprised how much it takes to fill in that half inch! The piece needs to be at least one inch. But I cheat sometimes. The smaller my pieces are, the smaller I make my seams. Many of my scrap quilts have 1/8 inch seams in many places.

I love using up my scraps.
Happy scrapping!

Grace MooreLinker

Now this is what a cal a scrap quilt, that's the way I make them. no waste

asimplelife

The smallest I go is 2" squares and 1.5" strips or strings. My favorite sizes to cut are 5" and 2.5" squares and 2.5" strips since they all play nicely together so I do that first and work down from there.

sewnut

Odd pieces can be used in paper piecing and in applique. I keep them at about one inch or so.

rosiewell

this is what I do, I have about a hundred paper strips 2-1/2 inches width. when I have a few small scraps I paper pieced them on the strip in a crazy quilt sort of way. I then used the strips as sashes on quilts. I take the paper off last.

MimiBug123

1 1/2" squares are about as small as I go!

MadQuilter

It depends on how much I like the fabric and how much I have left. If I LOVE the fabric, I keep every scrap down to 1" - otherwise, I keep anything that can be used with a spiderweb design from short and squat to long and skinny.

LadyElisabeth

You can just start sewing scraps together and eventually have a crazy quilt. The only scraps too small to save would be those YOU don't want to sew.

w7sue

I have several sizes that I am cutting from scraps - 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 2.5 x 5, and 4. Three of them are being saved for a scrappy quilt I want to make and I only cut one or two from each fabric so it will be very scrappy. I love Bonnie K. Hunter's site and have several of her books and have made five or six of her quilts.

One summer, I took to my bins (about the size of shoe boxes) and anything smaller than a FQ went into a paper grocery sack. It took me awhile to go through them and I took that bag to our beach house that summer and pressed, cut and stacked my little squares that I cut - I ended up making four or five queen size quilts from that bag and all I had to purchase were borders and backs.

jeaninmaine

Right now, 5" or more is left alone til I get to it. I'm making a batch of 2" & 2.5" squares out of anything that I can only get that size out of, anything longer than that, I'm just cutting into 2" or 2.5"strips so I can cut them to size as needed. Anything at least 3/4"wide x 4" or more I cut into the widest strip I can (doesn't have to be a particular size, just the widest I can get) and put it in my narrow strip bin to use for string quilts. If it's too small for a string or a 2" square, I put it into a bin of smalls to use to make some pieced fabric. This site shows an easy way to do it.
http://www.15minutesplay.com/p/tutorials.html