This past week I have been working on dealing with an enormously growing amount of fabric scraps. Luckily I happened on to a post by Amy Smart of Diary of a Quilter discussing Sorting, Saving, and Using Fabric Scraps. I spent the week doing something about my problem with great results.
I cut up all my scraps by color into some 4 1/2" and 2 1/2" strips and loaded them into plastic containers. What a chore, but finally I am able to do something constructive with them.My pink container has both pink and purple strips and yellow/gold and orange that share a container due to those colors that I seem to have less scraps of. They are 12 inch blocks, and I managed to get 3 blocks of pink and orange and 2 of the purple and yellow/gold without repeating any fabrics on each block.
Blue, red, and green scraps each got 5 blocks each from them. I have ended up with 25 blocks, a charity quilt is now on its way. And no those scrap containers are far from empty but at least now I have a good plan to get them into some useful purpose and maybe actually gone.