I had been gifted with boxes of upholstery books. Since not of the samples were duplicates, I cut them into the largest squares possible and used them with a lighter weight fabric to make a ragged quilt. This was stunning! One word of caution. Take this to a laundromat to wash unless you have a front loading washing machine. All of the threads that raveled, ended up binding up around the agitator. That was a real mess. My friend David, took it apart and started laughing at me, then asked "what the he** did you wash?"