how I put together my theme scrappy quilts

I spent my morning pressing and organizing the rest of the scraps and partial parts. We all love visuals to help us see how some quilts get put together. I learned the actual mile a minute pattern a few years ago-our charity group had a day when we all learned and played with the concept-later we had a challenge fabric of leopard faces to make a top from-I took those leftover scraps, leftover scraps from the king size African quilt I made for us, added a few from the wonky village and selected a few more from other scrap containers that I thought worked. When I dumped this bag out I found a pretty good start on this top. So you can see my sewing table layout..what I like to do is build up my "blocks" into a good size and then when they are about 25 by 20 or so..I consider them a "section" I am pretty loose about adding and whacking off to get close to similar sections...this time around I am making some deliberate design element additions. You can see on the design wall the progress made- more of that lime green sprinkled in..some "sashing" around sub sections -it's growing nicely. The start of a third section is at the bottom. An orphan block from the African quilt was in the pile..it was a reject-I clearly goofed and it's poofy-I am going to probably throw it in the mix and quilt it out - I folded over my wonky village to make room to play with this latest project. My ostrich round robin block is on there-I deferred to sweetie input and put that neutral around it-plus on the far right you will see the log cabin block for my guild's outgoing chairperson and the guild's next quarterly winnings selection block. I may make more of them, these I wouldn't mind winning!
I won some of the first year's blocks that have a Christmas theme...old ufo's waiting for inspiration. I now never enter any unless I am interested in winning. the small blocks below those two are waiting to become something..I have one over the other, so you only see one block with some color behind it. You will also note I keep a few other items on my sewing table..the jar and vase came from my nona's collection of knick knacks..the jar holds my ufos on pieces of paper to be pulled when I am ready to tackle the next one. It makes it more of a game to do it that way for me-whatever inspires you right? At any rate, above the sorted piles of partial blocks is the small amount of fabric I will cut and add to what I am working with-so you get an idea of what I am trying to use up. I will go to my African stash bin of yardage to pull for borders if I feel I need to add them, the backing and binding-so that will use a bit more stash up. All of these scraps however, will only eliminate one measly 2.5 gallon zip lock bag. You have to work hard to use up enough scraps to notice a real dent!
I need to track down a holder for the wonky village...I have a few ideas...guess I need to follow up now that I am back to having a few projects up on the design wall...I need the space!