I'm just finishing up my GFG after 2 1/2 years of working on it. It's all hand stitched, I've only gotten the top finished. I printed my hexs out on my home computer, 1" hexs, cut them out myself, saved my alot of money, very expensive to buy pre cut ones. I left them all in as I've been stitching the hexs together for stability and to keep the fabric from stretching while I was working on it, adding flowers, rows between the flowers, borders, etc. I'm really glad I did because the quilt is very even on all sides, top and bottom and although I'm 'sceared' (lol) at the thought of having to start the actual quilting (this is my very first quilt) I think it will be easier to remove the paper pieces, spray starch it really well and then start to sandwich with batting and back and then baste since the paper peices are still in place and it's been carefully folded in between periods of working on it. I've come this far and I can't wait until it's done. I do have one delimma....what to do with the little tabs that hang off of the edges of the last row on the sides, top and bottom. I don't know if I want to cut them off and make it even, then add a binding....OR....I saw on Youtube where someone quilted the whole quilt except the edges, then she made extra hexs the same color as the backing and actually stitched them to the front hexs so that you have the tabs in place but there are hexs on both sides, the hexs on the edges are stitched back to back so that the pretty side of the fabric is showing on both sides. I hope this makes sense. I like that idea but I'm not so crazy about all those little tabs hanging all over the quilt. I'm hand stitching the whole thing so I guess I can wait until I get to that point to figure out what I want to do. After all, this is no traditonal looking quilt. I did not make the flowers traditional. I made symetrical patterns with placing the hexs evenly around the flowers but there are no circles of flowers like you see in the traditional patterns.Some of my flowers have 5 or 6 different pattern of fabric in them. When I started this quilt, it being my very first project, and I had no clue what I was doing. I found a website that really only showed how to make the hexs and stitch them together so I just started making hexs and making patterns in the shape of the flowers with a center and two rows of hexs. I think it turned out pretty well all in all. I didn't realize that there was so much history and general 'rules' when it come to making a quilt until I started looking at the tons of websites on the computer about quilting. I went into this project blindly. I've learned alot along the way. I have some raelly rough areas in my quilt and I considered taking it apart but I though, 'no', that will be something to tell the grandkids (if I'm even lucky enough to have any in my lifetime). There are areas where I doubled the thread when stitching the hexs together, again not really knowing what I was doing, and it looks a little bulky, an area where the hexs I printed and cut out where a smidge smaller than the rest, didn't notice the setting on my printer until I had made them and had sewn them together but you can't really tell because they are scattered around the quilt, so far I haven't noticed any puckers or weird looking areas.Next time, and I do think there will be a next hexagon GFG in the future for me, I'll know better and be more wise to what the 'quilt police' would see if they looked at my quilt. LOLOL Good luck with your GFG, I hope it turns out great for you........