Welcome aboard Cattitude! A lot of the pictures I post here are because they are ways to use up stash. It can seem so easy -- oh, I have lots of fabric! But putting those fabrics together is often harder than it seems and mostly always requires getting "just one more piece" of fabric. As far as the Moratorium goes, that is fair use to buy and use immediately.
Speaking of which, love those crazy blocks interlocked with the solid blocks, RetiredTeacher. Good way to keep it from going too crazy and use up different types of yardage.
This coming year I intend on concentrating mostly on my civil war fabric collection. To be honest, it doesn't excite me much, but back when I did a lot of fabric swapping around Y2K, I got a lot (and I mean a lot!) of 10" squares and so for 20 years I've been trying to think of things to do with them. The first top will be Gentleman's Fancy, basically a variation of Rambler (Rambling Rose), or a lot of tiny triangles. It will be entirely scrappy, trying to use up as much of those 10" squares as I can so I'll have to sort and cut by values.
Here's the thing, although I mostly work with scraps, I don't typically do the all over scrappy thing. For me it's chaotic and breaks down the design too much. I'd rather do something with a lot of block each with different fabrics, like the purple quilt earlier this year. But I think it's the best use of those little squares. I also have enough fabric to make probably 3 tops and backs. I have some old VIP/Cranston prints I want to use on the backs, maybe not civil war but close enough! This is a picture I took earlier this year. That's the Civil war prints to left, one of my boxes in the middle, and the metallics to the right.
Have to work more with the metallics this year too. I've decided to reduce the remaining Asian 10" squares to a 6.5" rectangle for the future modern project (need to start a designated project box for it) and put the rest in the scrap box to be sent out when I'm done. I'm well on the way to a medium flat rate box filled with nothing but little bits of metallics and my crumb quilter has said no thanks. I need to come up with 1-2 more ideas to use what's left. After the end of the year though, I think what remains will all be given away.