A quilter's scrap bag/box is very valuable. You never know when you'll need a 2" piece of green (or yellow or orange or red, etc) fabric for some project. Don't get me wrong, I also have several plastic storage bins of large pieces of fabric (some several yards long), two small plastic storage boxes of small pieces of fabric, mostly Fat-Quarter cuts. And I have two smaller boxes that hold my precut 5"x5" charm squares. But the scrap bag is always an adventure. There are some pieces of fabric in my bag that date back about 15 years! Accumulated from different sewing and quilt projects over the years.
Above are two scrap projects I completed, both of them were experiments. Both turned out pretty good, one was good enough to keep and display on my kitchen table, the other was good enough to give as a gift to my mother-in-law.
The top project is very unconventional because it also has a scrap binding, which I've never seen done. I still can't decide if I like the scrap binding, but like I said, it was an experiment anyway. I may do it again the the future, I haven't decided.
These two projects are proof that something can be created by using bits and pieces of fabric that other people might have thrown away. You can almost call it recycling!!
