Victorian Puzzle Saga II

I was trying to recreate this Victorian puzzle pattern.

It looks like a hexagon but it's string pieced in diamonds.

The examples I've seen are generally late-19th-century and are mainly of silk, but also wool or cotton. What I liked was the spontaneity in the hexagon.

I realized the key is the center strip. It's not just a random strip of dark. It has to go at an angle, narrower at one edge than the other and it has to be the same size in each diamond, although the rest of the strips can be random.

I drafted a diamond with a repeating dark shape in the center. It worked, so I plunged ahead. I used a dark red solid for the center and sort of fruit sherbert colors for the string piecing.

I don't know if it's my drafting or my piecing--- the intersections still don't meet well.

But at this point I decided to continue, although there were many stops and starts.

It's really a puzzle because there is a lot of directional skill involved in putting these diamonds together right.

[Not my skill area.]  You could see why someone might abandon the project....

An unfinished top in silks

And then I couldn't find any more of the dark red. 

 So this is as big as it got with a different, striped dark red for the border.

Victorian Puzzle or the Curse of Mrs. Bulwer-Lytton

Dot for scale

I'd give you a pattern but I think somebody else could draw it better.

Here's one from the Kentucky Historical Society with a little embroidery.

And one from Betsey Tellford Goodwin's Rocky Mountain Quilts online store.

There are just three pieces per diamond here.

And a string-pieced example from Laura Fisher's online store.

http://www.laurafisherquilts.com/shop/Quilts/19th-CENTURY-QUILTS/Pieced-Quilts/p/KALEIDSCOPE-SPIDER-WEB-HEXAGONAL-LOG-CABIN-ANTIQUE-QUILT-sku-10835.htm

Maybe I am being too fussy about my points not meeting....