I have not used one candy square all year, but I've been cutting up my leftovers into candy squares for next year.
My daughter-in-law's mother died on Christmas Day. She asked me to make her Dad a memorial quilt out of her clothes. It was hard to please her, but she ended up loving what I did.
The two pillows are pictures of her mother that I had printed at Spoonflower. She didn't want them included in the quilt because she didn't want her mother's face to be quilted. The pillows solved the problem.