ShirlinAZ

I like to fussy cut, but I definitely use the scraps! My mom was a teen/young adult during the great depression, raised 7 kids, and taught us to "waste not, want not". Scraps have to be really small for me to throw them away. If I don't think I can use them they go in a craft bin for 3yo DGD to glue to the things she makes.

jitkaau

You can always make scrappy quilts from what's left over from the fussy cutting. There is a place for both.

Morag

Not me! Never appealed to me somehow!

katieranch

ditto!!!

GailG

I've done fussy cutting a couple of times. The quilts were really nice, but I worried about the waste.

Latrinka

I have done it a few times. If you need it, you have to. Can always use the scraps for something else.

captlynhall

My very first quilt which is shown on my avatar had fussy cut center blocks. I used fabric I had left over from a bedspread I made for my boat. It had sailing ships, light houses, stars and a blue background like water. The other fabrics I chose were all related somehow. One looked like seaweed in the ocean, another like sand, another like ocean water, and a final with little red anchors. The backing had blue and red ships wheels all over it.

caspharm

It depends on the quilt, or the fabric. I was doing a BOM and there were phoenixes in the fabric pattern. If I had just cut them, the birds would have been lost. It made the block more interesting.

MimiBug123

I've just never done it, because it looks to me like cheater fabric. If I want some specific for the center of a block, I usually machine embroider it. I think it looks more finished that way.

sewbeadit

I don't like the feeling of wasting either, but have done some fussy cutting.