The last time I hemmed and hawed about what to do about a fabric like that, I put a dark black with it and did this (picture below) quilt from Quilts, Quilts, Quilts (or maybe it was Quilts, Quilts and MORE Quilts). The nice thing is you still get lots of big pieces of it, while actually putting it into a quilt, a form that you can enjoy all the time instead of only during the shelf-petting hours!
Nowadays, I'll cut a 6" strip from such a fabric to use in many scrap quilts and leave the rest on the shelf until a project for it calls my name.
Sorry that the only shot I have of it is where I'm using it as a makeshift sunshade. It was a really hot day and it's now a very old quilt ;-). This was a Hoffman ombre of the day.
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