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Old 09-12-2009, 04:51 PM
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Isn't Bonnie GREAT?!?!?! She must be the QUEEN of 'multi-quilt-tasking' to keep all those different things going at once!

A little story, then a question: When my cousins were helping my great aunt move, they found several nice balls of 'saved' string in her pantry -- long pieces of string tied end to end, sitting on top of a box neatly labelled "string too short to save". The box was full of little bits of string. Lord knows what she thought she would EVER do with it! We laugh about this 20 years later! :D

Now the question: how big is a 'scrap', and how small is 'trash'? I just started quilting, and already have a box where I toss any pieces bigger than 2" on any side. Can anyone share their 'rules of thumb' for those 'scraps too small to save'?
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