You can get a good amount done in a small amounts of time. These smaller stripes are from my Mom. She was cleaning up her last project and thought I might want the variety for my spool blocks. I washed the stripes and ironed them, all using little bits of found time.
So far, I have this pile of spool parts cut up and matched together, ready to sew. Doesn't look like mush, but there are at least ten blocks worth there.
I have a basket on my cutting board that I want to start trimming. I like the idea I got from Bonnie regarding cutting up your scraps in usable pieces. For me so far, I cut up my pieces in 2" strips and squares plus 1" strips and squares. The rest of the miscellaneous odd sizes go in a scrap basket or the scrap strips in a drawer. Right now I only have the spools that I am cutting, but if I were thinking of a specific quilt I might want to make I would cut the leftover fabrics into those particular sizes. It makes for short work of accumulating the pieces needed to make the quilt. Try it, it really makes a difference. This drawer of pre-cut 2" strips and blocks sorted into lights and darks can probable make a queen size quilt or larger. This way I have instant variety without having to pull out all my fabrics.
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