I just stumbled onto this site:
https://www.withneedleandthread.com/bom.html
A BOM for each year from 2006-2016! That is a lot of free patterns!
Even if you don't want to start something new right now, these are so fun to look at.
I saved a bunch for later, but you know how that goes. Maybe I'll only use 2 of the snowman blocks for a Christmas card....
All these patterns are still downloadable! How generous is that.
on the right side of the page is a list of dates.
click on each one for the pattern
They are -I think- mostly useful for applique and/or embroidery.
But what if you printed them out on fun fabric and colored them with markers or maybe painted or dyed them?
Thread art? Practice for fmq?
Christmas cards for sure. And postcards...remember when they were so popular to sew up for gifts?
Have fun looking