Old Town Clues 6 through 8--post 4

Some half square triangles

Goal number five on my January list was to catch up with the Old Town Bonnie Hunter mystery. The last day that I sewed on this project was December 22. When I wrote my goals, I had finished clue five. Bonnie had released clues six, seven and eight. Since the publication of the post, she also has released clue nine which is the reveal.

For my purposes, I wanted to complete clues six, seven and eight this month. Clue nine is going to take some time! Bonnie always packs a lot into the reveal! I'll work on that after I get caught up on some other projects on January list!

Little flying geese

Clue six was to make a bunch of red and neutral half square triangles. The cool part of this step was that I had already cut all but four of the neutral fabrics! This happened because as I cut fabric for the other clues, this piece was leftover!

Cutting the red fabric wasn't time consuming. I even had a few strips precut which is always a bonus! It wasn't long before clue six was stitched, trimmed and bagged!

Adding units to the hour glass from a previous clue

Clue seven took some time! We made a whole bunch of tiny geese and then stitched them to the hour class units that we made in clue three. Again, I had a lot of the wings precut because these were the leftovers from working on previous clues. I liked how the fabrics in this step were all scrappy.

Once I stitched the geese units, I added them to the hour glass units. Of the last ten units I stitched, I turned nine hour glass units the wrong way and I needed to employ "Jack" (the seam ripper) to remove a whole lot of stitches. Gosh, these were fiddly trying to not loose points!

Larger geese

Clue eight was again making more geese! This time, the units were larger. I spent Friday during a Zoom Sit and Sew session cutting the fabrics. I even stitched a few units before the day ended. Today, I will finish sewing, pressing and trimming the units.

I am pleased with my progress! Linking to Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts and Cynthia at Oh Scrap.