Scrapology

I've become the SRU for my local Linus group. That's Scrap Repository Unit.

This is what comes to me.

I made it known to my fellow quilters that I stuff pillowcases with all my small unusable bits of fabric, sew them closed, and take them to the animal refuge centre for bedding. I made sure to tell the staff at the refuge that if the dogs rip them open, there's going to be a heck of a mess, so they mostly just use them for the cats.
While I was going through these "cat scraps" to make sure there wasn't any pins or nasties mixed in with them (and sometimes there is!) I found that there's also some rather lovely usable bits and pieces: long strips trimmed from backings; reject blocks; ends of strip pieced units; and odd shapes left from cutting applique pieces. So I saved them up and made quilts out of them!

Some of the girls think I'm quite mad (and some days I agree with them), but look here at the gold that I salvaged out of them. The white bucket is full of strings, and there's metres of 2 1/2" strips and 2" strips and lovely 5" squares. I think I've gone to scrap heaven!
I have a sneaking suspicion that they pepper their scraps with good bits just to see if I'm paying attention. But I don't think I miss much.

 Below are the results of some of my scrap saving.