WilliP: When I was ironing a bunch of Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks my mother hand-pieced back in 1930, I came across a couple that had one of the hexagons which had been pieced -- in otherwords, she didn't have a large enough piece for the hexagon, so she used scraps of the same fabric and pieced them together to have a large enough piece! It was done so well that from 2 feet away you could hardly see the seam.