I made a quilt once that might be an idea for you. Our guild had a challenge to make quilts out of fabric in grab bags, the final quilts to be charity quilts for victims of our many wild fires where many homes had been burned to the ground. I got a bag of strips of different widths. I was very new to quilting and I was totally stumped. How do you make a quilt out of strips? I came on this board looking for help, and one lovely lady guided me towards a quilt that she had made that she thought could work for me.
I ended up with a quilt that I was proud to turn in to our guild. (Our guild made 62 quilts in a 3 month time frame for this cause...) Let me see if I can find a picture, in case it might spark an idea for you.
Dina