thank you all! I've found what I need, I love when multi-brains are involved.
This is what I'm doing so small pieces ...4" blocks. I stopped hand sewing about 5 years ago due to eye problems, but this is improv and the only rule is no stitch redos

It is part of my self-directed grief therapy along with using a Wind Phone
https://www.facebook.com/groups/100d...itchmeditation
if anyone else wants to jump in we could start a thread
bits are from what was on my cutting table that minute.

I'd just denuded a bobbin of silk thread
Wind Phone info
https://www.mywindphone.com/