I sat down this afternoon and started "playing" with my half baked idea of some sort of star thing. It's actually more of a pinwheel/snowflake.
The 4 patches started as 3" squares so they are 5-1/2" blocks. I like the concept of what I was doing but because of the helter skelter way I assembled it I'm somewhat disappointed in the waviness of the results. When you add stuff one 'round' at a time and fit triangles into spaces between it doesn't go on as smoothly as if you did each spoke as a complete section before sewing it together. Imagine that!
Now that I see how it all should fit together I think I can do it one complete 'spoke' at a time and it should work much better. The finished topper should come out nicely and smoothly octagonal.
I may do my next one as strips instead of patches. I think I will like that look better as well.