Abandoned entrelac star

Abandoned entrelac star, originally uploaded by fuzzyjay.

I discovered how to increase on the right edge of an entrelac square to create a parallelogram that leans to the right, without using yarnovers as in my first entrelac star.

I am trying to create a hat that has 6 stars in it, one on the crown and 5 surrounding the crown. The tips of the stars touch, and the spaces between are filled with seed stitch or some other background. This kind of star would be good for some other pattern, but for a hat I prefer the way the center swirls a bit with the other type of star.