Clues 6 and 7 Progress

     I'm happy to say, that i am completely up to date with all clues today.    I'm linking to Bonnie Hunter's mystery link up    click here to check out what everyone else is up to .  

Bonnie dropped clue # 7 as an additional clue this week,  and I was able to stitch it all after returning from our New Years celebration on the Oregon Coast yesterday.   

Clue 6 was more string blocks!  I love stitching these. 

Here is a picture of my string bag of neutrals... before starting.  When i opened it, it nearly exploded.   

I pressed several different strips and placed them in a basket to pull from as I worked.  The basket is full,  and my string bag is still busting at the seams.  These things multiply! 

I got all of my neutral string units stitched and trimmed.   I love the variety of prints in these.  They tell a story of their own.  Kind of like a visual archeological journey through my fabric stash. 

     Clue 6 completely done!  Yahoo!  Although I was sort of sad to see that my count  told me I was done... yet I still have so many strings to use up. 

     I then went to work on clue # 7   This clue got us started piecing some of our earlier units together.   One of our assignments was to stitch some of our clue #1 units together into  16 patches.  

     The other part of clue # 7 was stitching units from clue #2 together.  Just when I think I see a pattern,  the numbers just don't work out the way I think they should. LOL 

     Clue # 8 is out tomorrow and I'm anxiously awaiting to see what Bonnie has in store for us next.  

While I was waiting for clue # 6 to come out last week,  I reached for an old unfinished project that I started in a class in 2010.  Judy Niemeyer taught a class at our quilt show that year,  and I still hadn't finished my table runner.   I had seriously forgotten where I was in the process.   Turns out that I had all the small paper pieced points done!  Yahoo! I did need to locate the rest of my background fabric which had long ago been mixed in with my batiks.  Thankfully, I hadn't used it on another project!    

Judy Niemeyer's pattern:  One for All Seasons is the pattern.    I had wanted to do one with rounded flying geese,  but she had sold out of that one in class.  

This is the pattern link:  

About 2 hours of putting the smaller units together, and I had the finished top for this tablerunner.    Just needs to be quilted now.  It's on my 2019 UFO list.