Using stuff up

You may or may not know this but stereotypical housewives who happen to quilt are also generally stereotypical quilters.  As a stereotypical quilter, I have a hard time throwing fabric away; especially since I like to make miniature quilts which require lots of miniature scraps of fabric.  Nothing is too small to keep.  It takes a great amount of effort for a quilter to throw fabric away-it is just a tragedy to watch it go to waste.  Hence, the quilter's stash.  Not only are we crazy about buying fabric, we just can't get rid of it either.  Well, today I declare that I will break the mold!  No more bags with scraps from my already finished projects.  None of that.  And here is the post to prove it.

You may remember that I made this American flag over the summer.  The pattern for making it yielded a lot of leftovers, but not enough leftovers to actually make another flag.  I set the scraps to the side in October to work on other projects.  Good thing too or I wouldn't have had the time to ruminate on what to do with those scraps.  Just this week I got those scraps out to see if I could make a smaller flag that would still look like a flag.  Here is the finished project.  What do you think?  I actually got three of these little flags out of the scraps.  Unfortunately, I still have some leftovers and am still debating whether to throw them away or not.