Originally Posted by joyce888
I've seen so many gorgeous quilts made with scraps and they have inspired me to start saving mine. But my question is do I sort by size, color, motif, or what? I have found when piecing blocks I'm not a fan of pieces less than 1 1/2". Also do I make up blocks with leftovers as I finish a quilt or mix them all together with other scraps? It seems to me to be harder to put a scrap quilt together than a planned one.
I started saving sm. scraps of all sizes when I came across pcs. I just could not toss into the wastebasket. Now I have a lg. wicker picnic basket stuffed full. No way to organize that mess.
One day I will offer it out to this grp. I made a great paperpieced quilt out of it that I called my "free quilt" since otherwise the pcs. would have been trash. That was a beaut. quilt. Even the backing was an old pc. I found in my stash.