I was looking through some of my older magazines last night because my oldest daughter wants me to make her a sampler quilt so I was trying to find some blocks that I could use. I came upon the Flying Kites pattern. I really fell in love with it. Before I thought it looked so complicated but now as my quilting is getting better, I'm feeling more confident about trying to make other different kinds of blocks. They said that you could use scsrap fabric for this block and just use plain background fabric but if you use black it would really make all the scraps pop out. I'm realling thinking to finally get out of my confort zone and make this. Now that I look at the pattern, it looks really simple. Just two pieces. Maybe that would be a good block for you to use up some of your scrap fabric with. I know I am going to try it, after I finish this sampler quilt. Good luck. Have fun.