I love your scrappy setting. Great job and you are getting it done so quickly.
When I work on my hexie quilts I like to get some hexies basted to papers and then sew the units together. I wouldn't be able to just do the basting and not see what kind of design progress was being made. --I scratch my head in wonder at the people who have loads of basted hexies but no design completed--that would get too boring.