Huge Hexies

One of my ladies at Chertsey Museum brought this e-nor-mous paper pieced hexi top in to show me.

It measures over 3metres square, and looks to be made in the 1970s.  There is a large variety of fabrics including some very, um, *something* crimpline, tweed, silk and some cotton - and the sewing isn't particularly brilliant.

Kay was given it by the daughter of the lady who assembled it, with a "you like sewing don't you" comment - the one we mostly dread.

So Kay doesn't want to use it, but cant bear to throw it away.  I thought we could chop it into 6 children sized tops and finish them for Siblings Together, or Project Linus or some other children's charity.  Other suggestions included draping it over a rope to make a play tent for the grand children, an enormous picnic blanket, or seeing if the Cath Kidston stores buy patchworks for curtains for their changing rooms.

Anybody else got any ideas?