The plan is this: to use the crosses that I liked from the piece I've just finished and find a way to combine them with some more of my octagon blocks. I don't want to make more octagons, but there has to be a way to use up the ones I've got that feels satisfactory. I'm adding a couple of extra shirts to the ones I had originally pulled and also added some of the scraps from the last top, mostly orange bits and pieces.
Maybe something like this?
or this?I don't know how these will fit together, but I like them well enough, so I'll keep going and see what happens.