Eureka!!!!

Well, I think so anyways. It all happened because I goofed and made a five sided motif and I was pretending it had six and using it to lay some of them out to try and figure this out when I thought "What if I use it like it is?" and there it was! The answer! It remains to be seen if this will work in reality and not on paper, but I think so. I will use a row of 5 sided motifs for the top of the skirt and then hexagons for the rest! So, I'll have to make some 5 petaled flowers now but not too many! That brings the number of motifs down to 80. Still a lot but doable!