I love buying scrap bags and there are always fabrics included that are really awful. I decided that I'd separate out all of the fabrics I'd never use for anything and make a string quilt (Eleanor Burns - Quilt In A Day). I cut everything into strips of varying widths and just started. No rhyme or reason, no coordination of colors, no decisions about light vs. dark. The resulting quilt is beautiful! I've had so many positive comments, and when people look at the individual fabrics they're surprised that they all combined to make something pretty. After that success, I decided to make another one just in greens and lilacs and blues. It's awful. Randomness apparently works much better.