WMUteach, I love your use of stash! Great points on the blocks.
I found a huge piece of pale blue fabric in the box gifted to me. I hope to use it to back 1 or 2 of the UFOs found st my friend's house. We didnt sew on those tops for the last 3 days, so I've been sewing on pieces inspired by a quilt made by my grandmother or her mother. It has butterflies of different fabrics in squares. Sadly the entire quilt is threadbare with the colors faded to almost nothing. Her hand stitching in black is still visible. I traced 1 butterfly & made freezer paper templates. I cut 28 butterflies from a variety of floral fabric also gifted to me. I'm machine-sewing them to neutral fabric squares (part of the gifted fabric). I'll intersperse squares of bright fabric, all stash, next to the butterfly squares. I've cut 28 bright fabrics, 28 neutral fabrics, & this quilt should end up 7 X 8 blocks, 75.5" X 84" without borders. I may add borders to the sides. Fabric on hand will decide that for me. My machine has a blanket stitch, very similar to that on the original, so I'm sewing them all with that. I'm thinking of using the original as batting, if it has enough structure. Thoughts on this plan?