My mom and I are working on a "crazy quilt" wall hanging using hankies she got as gifts when she taught school in a one room school house on the prairies of North Dakota 45 years ago. You use a white or off-white backing and stitch the decorative portions of the hankies crazy quilt style to it. You can add decorative trims and embroidery to it and make it as large as you want. Then you do a border in a coordinating fabric. You can be as ambitious as you want to be. So much nicer to see these lovely reminders of the past on the wall instead of in a box in the cedar chest!