Hey Quilty Friends! Old Town Part 5 was a breeze compared to some of the previous clues. I finished these much faster than I thought. But in my excitement, I forgot one of Bonnies rules, no pictures on our cutting mats. So, once again I blurred out the cutting mat lines in some of the pictures.
Bonnie's patterns almost always give the maker several options for making the different units. My plan for this quilt was to use the Bonnie Hunter Essential Triangle ruler if it was a suggested option. As you can see, I changed my mind. The flippy corners method was easier. I don't need more cutoff triangles for making half square triangle blocks, but I figure, why not? You have over 4,000 half square triangles, what's a few more?
The instructions suggested drawing a line from corner to corner, then stitching to the right side of the line, basically it's a scant quarter inch. I chose not to draw a line but to use the seam guide tape. Just put the point of the square at the needle and stitch, making sure the opposite point stays on the red line.
In no time at all I had all the square in a square units completed.
I also had a huge pile of cut off corners. Instead of sewing the green and blue triangles together, I will be adding a white triangle to each one of these.
The last part of this week clue was easy. A bunch of blue and white squares. I forgot to take a picture of the blue squares. They were in the first picture at the beginning of this post.
While cutting the white squares I came across a few triangles hiding in the scrap bins. They were set aside to be used with the flippy corners cut offs to make half square triangles. To make even more white triangles, the end was cut off all the pieces from previous clues when I cut triangles from strips of fabric.
I haven't counted all the white triangles, but I think there should be more than enough to go with the green and blue cutoffs.
I thought about stitching all these together today, but it occurred to me, there's still more clues to this mystery quilt. There may be more triangles in the last few clues. Maybe I should hold off on making bonus half square triangles until I'm sure these can't be used in another clue. So, to be on the safe side, I gave them their own special little box and will wait until the final quilt reveal before making them into half square triangles.
By sundown last night all the mystery quilt mess was cleaned up and the project was stored away on the top of works in progress cart.
Sunday is sewing in my jammies day. I'll be working from the bottom shelf of this cart. The
Bumpkin Baskets quilt has a lot of border applique to be stitched into place. That should keep me busy all day.
