Here is a funny one. My friend had cut odd shaped pieces out of black fabric for a stained glass window project. She was going to toss the scrap pieces. They were kind of v shaped and reminded me of crows that fill our local park trees all winter so I begged them from her and fused them on a backing and free-motion embroidered black tree branches all over the piece. I donated it to an arts fund raising auction, and the next week someone called to ask me to make a duplicate for his wife! (I didn't--no more scraps.)