Scraps can be treasure.

Hope you are all having a nice 4th of July. I am trying to adjust myself to this new laptop and have been liking it quite bit. There are still a lot of things that make me feel like "huh?" but I'm sure I'll find out everything and soon I can fully feel comfortable with this new VAIO. Tons of fabric scraps that don't seem to decrease but instead keep increasing and even started flooding from the glass bin got me thinking...ok, let's take an action to reduce. So I gave myself a task: Make something out of these scraps! And I made this potholder. I have to admit that the cotton batting, heat resistant fabric, and linen for the back surface of the potholder didn't come from the stash but all the fabric you can see in this front view is from it! *smile* What's the border between "trash" and "keep" for your fabric scraps? Do you consider 1" x 1" to be too small for keeping? I am a big saver when it comes to this, especially for rare fabrics that I love and know isn't available anywhere anymore like vintage fabric and Japanese fabric. I could save these kinds of fabrics even when it gets 0.5" in length. It's just so adorable for me to see even tiny scraps of these and it makes me happy to keep them. I thought making a potholer is such a great idea for this, because that way you can see your precious fabric anytime you want to by putting it up in your kitchen and of course it is easy and quick to make! Great!! I have to make more!! This potholder will be in my etsy shop soon! And probably will be more in shop too! Thanks for reading!! Happy 4th of July!