Iceblossom

Here's my "finished" proto-type and some observations on how I would do this with plaids because I really like working with plaids and striped fabrics.

As mentioned before, I sew large and cut down and have a lot of process photos but I think what I've taken away from this is, those setting triangles need to be small to let the plaids work, so maybe just a 2" or so triangle with 2" or so of blade, I'm not happy with the 1" finished I did.

I'd cut the blades as wide as I wanted for the consistent plaid, and then I'd trim down the triangle sub-units as shown in picture two and completely skip the center octagon, letting the plaids be fancy on their own. I think this could all be improvisational in terms of dealing with the plaid, and just trimmed down to the proper triangle and I would skip the pointy ends for speed of processing.

Yes, that's just a finished sized octagon of cut paper in the center.

And we all know that the best days are when squishies come in the mail, even if it ultimately could mean more work for us.