All of you sound so ambitious! I have found I have loads of Christmas fabric scraps so to use them up, I'm cutting them into 3" wide strips and sewing them end to end. After I have made my "fabric square" out of all the scraps I fold them in four, pur on a batting and binding I cut as big a circile as possible. Then it's use a decorative stitch in all the lin es of stitching, make the hold and bind. I hardly have any scraps left and can now go on to other things.