I'm overthinking this!

I want to make a few Christmas quilts.  Maybe they will be done in time for next year???  I thought simple half square triangles would be good so I gathered my Christmassy fabric and started cutting HSTs.  Having made two different sized ones I then wondered what I was going to actually do with them!

So out came the graph paper and the coloured pencils!  Using the size HSTs I'd made I came up with this.  It's ok.  It'll probably look fine in the Christmas fabric to be honest but it's a bit...blah.

Then I drew more lines on my pattern and liked the look.  But, of course, it's exactly the same as the first one but with lines so that's no good.

I added more HSTs in some of the white space.  It's ok but not what I was looking for AND do I really want to make all those HSTs??

I changed the colours seeing if that would help.  This reminds me a bit of a Hunter's Star quilt.  I'm not sure though but I do like how it changes the design so it definitely doesn't look like two blocks just plonked down next to each other.  This design is probably more effective if I used the same fabrics throughout and I intend on using a mixture of fabrics although they are the same colour so would that work?

My pencils were blunt by now and my patience was stretched very thin so I've put it on the back burner for now.  This is how I left it. Next Christmas it may still look like this ha ha!