I tended to not to want to cut into my favourite fabrics. Then I got breast cancer. It scared me into realizing that I may never see those fabrics as they were meant to be.
I started cutting them up and after my surgery when I had healed enough to start stitching I did pretty much what zozee suggested. I made a lap quilt with my precious 1930’s reproduction quilts that were too good to cut. I cuddle with my dog under it every day.
I can still see and admire and , yes pet those fabrics. They are in quilts where I can see them and not on a shelf in my sewing room where they are not doing me much good.
Take zozee’s advice. It’s good advice.