I am a lover of "scrappy" quilts and the quilt block called Cat's Cradle is a perfect candidate to use up all of those scraps you have been saving. I have shown the block in two versions in the sample quilt layouts below -- a light version and a dark version.

Due to the subtle directional nature of the block, lots a variations in your quilts can result by using 90 degree rotations of some of the blocks. These two samples below show that, and yield very different results.

See also:
~ Birds in the Air
~ Rat Pack