It's so hard to use those pretty scraps....I started to cut some scraps up into sizes...there were so many I would have been there for years....plus...I actually hurt my shoulder I think from doing this for periods of time...I am still trying but I do 10-15 minutes at a time...
i actually made about 48 string quilt blocks in 2016...blues....but it looked like there were more scraps when I finished my blocks...I thinks scraps "procreate"...