These days, I do the CBD larges, and all the runic larges.
With the changes to the kit intensities back in February (especially the change that all the tailor & smith runics go up to 100% intensity now), you can get some decent things from spined kits on occasion, and it's not like you are going to run short of cloth (reward cloth from turning in all the junk reward BODs as smalls for new ones), and the footwear are all normal for those 20 ct smalls, so you can fill them that way (or by giving them to a fisher).
I occasionally will burn through 1-2 spined kits trying for 70 physical, high-luck 100% LRC suits for friends or even total strangers, just for fun.
I typically save up my cloth smalls other than the ones for spined kits or CBD, then fill them all when I get about 100 of them. I buy the pieces for most the normal ones, and craft the exceptionals and the ones whose items can't be purchased (bonnet, surcoat, full apron, body sash)
The leather smalls that don't go to kits or CBD, I throw the bone smalls away*, then I fill the rest with one of my BOD runners, to slowly train their skill up. Of my 3 tailor not to 120 skill yet (my main tailor's been 120 for 5 years), that I started training this way in March, one is almost to 107 skill, another is in the low 90s, and the last one is in the mid-70s (because, until the one in the 90s got too high to train on leather armor, the lowest one only got to make cloaks, robes and thigh boots for BODs).
I keep enough smalls on hand for 1-2 larges of each set, with all the extra leather BODs going on vendors at cheap prices (really, storage for me, but it won't break my heart if people actually buy the smalls - I need the gold to buy more horned & barbed leather, now that Destard is so dangerous. Most of the smalls I price at 3-5k)
* I keep a few of the normal quality Bone junk BODs of each leather type to fill with rejects from filling the exceptional ones with good rewards.