Keep your small bits and when you have something that can be washed, mix the small bits together with a bit of water to make a thick paste. You can paint this goop onto your fabric and let it dry and then won't need any stabilizer. Once embroidery is done, you can wash it all out.

I think you can dry iron the peaces together I use mine when I hoop to do a design I use the largest peaces moisten the edges and press it down on the wiss and let it adhear makes a better foundation for embroidery.

Collect your small pieces til you fill a jam jar. Pour water in to fill the jar, shake it and leave it til it's all disolved and then pour a thin layer into a flat metal tray ( big enough to be bigger than your embroidery hoop) - or more than one tray - i got some cheap baking trays from a dollar shop. Then just leave them - on the top of a bookcase is good - for several days - Ta dah! You end up with new sheets!( You'll have to work on the amount of 'bits' and the amount of water til you get the thickness right

You can also baste some of your larger scraps together and then hoop and sew. You will need to clip the basting threads when you finish. Try to put the basting seam out of the way of your regular embroidery.

Ingrid, I see you have some great tips - I try to keep my larger pieces - to stitch togehter - as Sandy has suggested - but I use a thread called Wash-A-Way - it is a WS thread - so I don't have to worry about clipping the threads away. So for this has worked the best for me, in all the years of trying other ways of doing this. *4U Shirlene

I put my small pieces in a spraybottle with water to make a soup then spray on towels. When dry use as is without having to use more WSS

gather the larger pieces togethr and lay them down on a sheet of plastic. put them side by side and do not wory about any small gaps next use a fine mister and very lightly mist spray. Do not soak the WSF. now lay those small pieces over the holes side lines and join the pieces together it will dry and then you have a large sheet. if you do it in sections that will be used in a large hoop size then you can use them all just make sure the larger parts are glued together with the bits great for free standing lace projects as the stitches will hold the sections together even better. annie in the uk

Thanks everyone for their suggestions. I am so glad I never threw any of the wss away. But I will definetely give all the suggestions a try. I just didn't think that you could reuse wss especially the way some of you had suggested. It just like recycling paper. LOL *'s for you all.

You can sew your pieces of wss stabilizers together with wss thread. It will all dissolve when you soak the finished designs. I works perfectly.

you've got many answers already. I keep them in a bag with leftovers of wss. Sometimes I'm embroidering and the wss tears or is too short, then I lay over a piece of my leftover to cover this, *4u!

EASIEST way to reuse those pieces is lay them side by side and using a cotton tip, wet then lightly moisten one side then overlap and PRESTO they are stuck really well together!! I keep all my useable pieces in sealable plastic bags because the air dries them out.

I make a patchwork of small leftover pieces of wss on the ironing board, then with a sheet of baking paper i lay on top then iron with a hot iron. they "melt" together, Only do this once as it tends to go a bit hard.

I don't have an answer..but am so pleased to read these other suggestions..thank you xo

I enjoyed reading everyone's response ;D *2U

Thanks everyone for your comments. I have learned alot.

We never get to old to learn do we? I like the Wss thread that u can buy by the spool, but I have certainly learned a lot after reading all these answers. What is the saying? uummm Let me see oh I know Necessity is the mother of invention & this is certainly true. You have come up with all kinds of ways to recycle & save. As Monica says "Fiesta!!"

When I need to use a double layer of WSS I fold the piece then cut it so I have an end with a fold and an end that is open. When I'm done with that embroidery I open up the folded end and have a pretty large square that I could use in a smaller hoop. So far I have been saving them in a plastic zip-loc bag and have used a few. Some of them I have used as patches when I need to make a spot thicker.
There are definitely some great ideas here that I will try with the rest of my small pieces.

Lots of good answers for sure.

Where is jrob? She knows all about the spray bottle thing. I think they add a little clorox to the water to keep mold down.