Monumentally boring question about quilting - which pattern do you like best?

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

I'm putting pictures on my profile of two possible patterns. I could either do normal hexagons with stars inside, or I just realized they will also tesselate with four-pointed crosses and squares for a more varied pattern. I quite fancy this because I've already done a plain hexagon square quilt, but would it be a faff? And which do you think looks nicer? The one with crosses and squares I've just laid out on the table as you can see, so I haven't filled in the empty spaces where the cros/square shapes would be.

Thank you!

What colour would you have in the squares/4 pointed stars?

I'm preferring the plain hexagon one atm but I'm anal about symmetry.

I'm not sure about colours - I thought I might go for bright colours to contrast with the stars, then colour shift to bright stars and pastal/subtle crosses? I'm really loving the colour shift quilts I've seen recently.

I know what you mean about symmetry ... just trying to think, because it will be quite a big quilt so it could probably take the shifting patterns?

Thanks very much for replying!

I prefer the one with the squares and crosses, looks more interesting and unique :)

No worries - I'm monumentally boring so this thread suits me!

I'm thinking sky blue in the squares and 4p stars.

Thanks iheart - I quite fancy doing it too, would be more interesting (cos, you can imagine, with concerns like this I need all the excitement I can get ).

run - ooh, yes, that would be pretty. Thanks.

(and rubbish, you're not boring.)

Or hot pink

I do like the second one.
All those inset seams will be murder though....
You could shift the colours - I have seen it done diagonally in the main pattern and it looks lovely.
or if you do the first option you could use the secondary pattern of the squares to shift the colour.

run - yes ... or dark red, maybe.

coffee - will the seams be especially bad? I don't see why they'd be worse than anything else - do you mean because of the angles?

ooh, i like the way you've done the top one.

yes.
bastard angles.
give it a try though!

Thanks nickel.

coffee, yes, I'll experiment ... the basic maths is annoying me right now!

don't cut too many bits, google inset seam tutorials, and give it a try.

Oh! No, I'm not doing it on a machine, it's all hand-sewn. It should be about the same difficulty for doing these shapes as the hexagons - I think, anyway. The annoying bit will be those narrow points on the crosses.

Oh that changes everything.
They are easier to do by hand.
(apparently, I have never tried)

I didn't know you could even do hexagons on a machine, it sounds like it would be more trouble that it's worth - but thank you very much, sorry, I should have said more in my OP.