Our quilt group does a quilt a thon each year and and we take all our scrap fabrics and make string quilts, 9 patch blocks or just whatever we want to do, and make quilts for a fundraiser for the groups in town, like the volunteer fire dept. We do teams of up to 4 people and have a contest to see how many blocks each team can complete. The first year we did 550 12 1/2 inch blocks. The local hotels give us their sheets that are ripped or stained to use as a foundation or we use scraps of batting, and we usually cut them at 13 so that we can square them up to the same size. Then we put them togother using quilt as you go method. Its a lot of fun and a day to sew without any worries doing a project that doesn't take a lot of thought to do. We all need to zone out once in a while and have fun.