Originally Posted by Iceblossom

It's probably paper piecing to the rescue then if you don't want to applique. Doesn't help particularly in drafting it in EQ although I believe there is an option for printing for paper piecing, I'd probably just blow up the picture until you get a 1/8 wedge the size you want. I spend quite a bit of my quilting time doing stuff on the copiers at my local office supply store!

Edit: One of my upcoming projects is going to be a lone star sampler with 9 large but not huge stars using blue and white snowflake fabrics and I will make the stars look like snowflakes (except of course lone star is octagonal and snowflakes are hexes...). Anyway, I've been playing with how to make the blocks in my head for the last year or two on how to move the background fabric in and out to make the design less radiating and more snowflake-like, if that makes any sense!