Starting a new craft

I’ve been thinking about starting a patchwork quilt for ages, I always remember my Aunt having a bag at the side of the sofa full of scraps of material and cardboard hexagons, I never saw the finished quilt but she seemed to love dipping into it every now and again and making a few patches. I never really knew how to do it and after a bit of research on flickr I came across some instructions for ‘English Paper Piecing’ and decided to give it a go. So far I have managed to cut out 150 8cm Hexagons using junk mail (thought it would be a good opportunity to recycle some of the rubbish which comes through our door each day rather than using my nice new cardstock!) ! I have sorted myself out a little box to keep every thing in now I just need to go through my fabric stash and decide what colours to go for. Ideally I would like to make Jake one for his ‘big bed’ in time for Christmas, I have a lot of old Disney Duvets & Pillow cases with his favourite characters on and some other blue scraps (wow more recycling!) and am wondering how this would turn out? Would a miss mash of bits of Disney look good or a total mess? Hmmm I shall have to give it some thought. I am also thinking I shall need to invest in a thimble before I start! I shall leave you with a picture of my hexagons!