Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. I participated in a jelly roll exchange and got some of the uglist strips you could imagine. The ugly part was they didn't coordinate with anything much less each other. So I sorted into groups of four with some coordination of color. I then did the 4 strip tube quilt. You know what? They all came out looking really good. Turned out to be a really attractive scrap tube quilt. So use it.....that's where creativity comes to play.