Try a scrappy you may enjoy the finished piece, one of the tutorials show to sew on to a strip of adding machine tape, to make a long colorful strip, then these could be put to good use around larger blocks, or between solid long strips, and quilt as you go, can mix all up pr go with lights and darks or single color combo squares, no rules just sew, with basic outline.
May end up being a memory quilt of your quilts made, and run a log with it telling where the original pieces went :)