At the end of an evening, when I’m too tired to work properly on whatever my main sewing project is, I make a couple of scrap fabric improv quilt squares to wind down.
The idea is that when I sew them together it will look like little peekaboo color on a somewhat homogenous background – albeit they aren’t the same whites because they are scraps too!
Then repeat again with the next piece. I personally iron in between each piece but I know many other folk would probably just finger press to make the whole process faster.