Good luck. I can't even begin to think about a quilt. Good thing I have a friend who does.

Put your strips in a paper bag,give it a shake and pull one out, What you see is what you sew.

Bev is right, this works really well & I have done this a few times to make quilts in a hurry. You take all the strips you need to make a lap quilt & put them into a paper bag & start sewing them together @ the short ends until you have stitched them all & have one giant strip. Then you take that strip & right sides together fold in half lengthwise & cut @ the bottom of that & then stitch those sides together & just keep going until you have sewn 8 rows & you will have a finished lap quilt. Jelly Roll Race! A Quilt Top in Less Than an Hour!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEJLnaZQOU

Sorry I have no suggestions as I am not a quilter. I am sure you will come up with something that will be just right. Best of luck. Looking forward to seeing the finished quilt. By the way great idea to cut your own strips. Hugs Shirley

Love this tutorial, the look is very scrappy and it is not difficult. The only problem is, you sew in the bias, so you must be careful, dont stretch. I use my normal ruler and make for the right triangle a mark with painters tape. The quilt I made this way was a gift years ago as I was not a member of Cute, so I have no foto.

very dedicated I must say, it's probably what most of us should do with some of the unused stash (me, anyway). The Jelly Roll Race (on You Tube) is probably the quickest. Have a bit of look at the ones they have in Patchwork shops. They mix the colours, but still in some 'light,medium,dark' scheme. You have to cut some off the first bit, before doing the long length. But if you have differing lengths, this may not be necessary. One day, you will show us I'm hoping??

Take a look at making a French Braid quilt using the strips they turn out beautiful with scraps. Lots of different styles available. I would give you a flower but I can't find out how to do it.

This is the link to aussiequilters Friendship Braid quilt. I think that is what it is called. She used a lot of different scrap pieces and isn't it pretty? Is this what you meant, Ihart?

There are a lot of tutorials on Missouri Star Quilt Co. Search jelly roll quilts will get quite a few patterns.

You will probably think I am completely crazy but here's what I think would be fun and I'd paobably do it::When you have several jelly rolls plan a jelly roll party. Invite some friends over for coffee or tea and serve real jelly rolls. Then give them each a quilt jelly roll and challange them to make a quilt for some charity, hospital, childrens group,etcWhat ever is dear to your heart.. You could set a time,say 1 month that everyone would bring back completed quilt. You could go as a group to deliver them then go out for coffee or lunch. Since yor were gifted the fabric it would be nice to play it forward. All you would have in it is your labor. If there were enough larger pieces you could even give them the backing. The jelly roll race really makes up fast and looks more complicated than it is. I have even used my serger to put the strips together and that takes just a couple of hours and if you "envelope" the top & backing (no binding) it that makes it even faster.

Looks fantastic!