Oooh great question Jeanne. I bet you with zip right through that paper piecing - good luck, hope you are feeling better.
I just bought a book by Yoshiko Jinzenji because of the gorgeous rich red pieced quilt I saw in the Amazon 'sneak preview'. Now I've got the book in hand I learned that the 'gorgeous quilt' is really a lot of 12" miniquilt mandalas made with antique fabrics and silks and all hand pieced, then just placed next to each other like a quilt - for the photo shoot. She gives you all the patterns for the mandalas, about an inch high, and you need to create your own templates, figure out if they can be paper pieced somehow, what doesn't have to be hand quilted...(at 65 I am not interested in a long project)
Well,if I'm going to do it, I better get started and see if I can do at least one mandala.
This is the link to peek at the book in Amazon - it's lovely
http://www.amazon.com/Quilt-Artistry...shiko+jinzenji