Kaye Woods has a strip quilting method for cutting hexagons. Much faster than templates. It was on her website.
http://www.kayewood.com/blog/freebies/tips-tricks/
That is how I started on mine. Unfortunately, I was a newbie back then and the ruler I thought was a 60 degree triangle wasn't so my hexagons aren't as fat as I would have liked but it looks more old fashioned so it's all good.