Roll Roll Cotton Boll and Cotton Boll JR Clues 3 and 4
Posted By drsao on December 20, 2010
Glory Oscar Zero – I finished Clues 3 and 4 for Bonnie Hunter’s Mystery Quilt – Roll Roll Cotton Boll and Roll Roll Cotton Boll Jr.
*by the way – where on earth did I get this expression GLORY OSCAR ZERO – I have no clue!
Do you remember my basket of fabric strips that was literally OVERFLOWING? Well look at it now!
The Scrap Basket is half empty - make that half full!
Here are my blocks all sewn and NOT TRIMMED. I wish I would have taken Bonnie’s advice and trimmed and de-papered a few at a time – because doing all 120 at once took me THREE MOVIES!!! 🙂 I stopped halfway through to take a picture!!!
Some of the blocks before trimming
AND TA DA – here it is……
120 Paper Pieced Blocks – all trimmed, de-papered and ready (I can hardly believe it myself!)
sao's 120 CLUE 3
And then I made my blocks for Clue 4……..thank goodness this was easy and fast! The colors on these blocks for ROLL ROLL COTTON BOLL JR are a bit OFF – because it looks like the colors are blue and peach – and actually they are blue and cream and/or beige!!!
Roll Roll Cotton Boll Jr
AND NOW FOR ROLL ROLL COTTON BOLL JR CLUE 4
Roll Roll Cotton Boll Clue 4
And what comes next? 1200 Half Square Triangles for TWO Clue 5. This is really fun, though! I love a challenge and it is great fun anticipating what this quilt will look like. I KNOW I WILL LIKE IT BECAUSE BONNIE DOES NOT DESIGN LESS-THAN-SPECTACULAR QUILTS!
I thought my string blocks were so ugly…untill they were depapered, pressed and starched, and trimmed. And then they were so pretty. Kind of like all of us when we first get up, vs. going out 🙂
Seasons best, happy mystery, Sharyn