This latest reply of yours is exactly what I sought...especially when it is fresh off the press while you are making this great quilt and reflecting on the process. I can see with each star the definition and intersections becoming more and more accurate. Nothing like learning by doing. I am a mere two quilts ahead of you, but you mentioned something about removing the paper and that brought something to my mind. I found that punching each line of a design with a tracing wheel and then using the suggested shorter stitch further weakened the paper and made it easier to remove. I also remember another posting mentioning a damp Qtip applied to the really tight corners allowing a maker to almost rub the paper off? I later found a technique on utube and learned by using freezer paper... that can eliminate sewing through paper altogether.
I wonder if we started a thread or created a category just for paper piecing ...how many pages and great replies we might have as a resource for quilters, and how this sometimes loathed but great technique could be made less challenging?