I don't use the paper piecing method for hexagons because I don't like the way my whip stitches look. I ended up getting a metal non-slip hexagon template with the center cut out. This worked well to cut hexagons (I cut into strips of the correct width first) with a rotary cutter. At first I penciled in the hand sewing line on the hexagons before sewing them together with a running stitch, but after awhile I didn't need that and just eyeballed the seam allowance. For me, this is actually less work than paper piecing and there are no whip stitches to show.