This week we were making Split Triangle Units. I'm making the smaller quilt, which meant that I needed to make 100 units. Remember those "extra" or "leftover" HST units from Part 3? They are being used in the making of these units.
I have a funny aside for you though. When Bonnie said to use the "leftover" HST, somehow I got it in my mind that these were "bonus" HST that you get from trimming. Oh no! Did I miss a step? Did I throw away scraps I should have kept? Desperately I went back to view Clue #3... where I remembered that we had made those extra HST units and didn't turn them into pinwheels. Whew! Disaster averted! It was definitely time for more coffee because I obviously wasn't completely awake yet LOL.
Here are all my pieces, cut out and laid out and ready to be sewn together... including those extra HST:
Here's a block all laid out, to test out how the pieces will go together and how the colors will play with each other. I think I'm going to like this unit!
Look! All finished! Yippee!
Of course, my curious engineer's mind has been trying to figure out how these units will go together. Bonnie said that the small quilt will finish at about 75" x 75". That could be divided up into 25 blocks set 5x5, with each block measuring 15". Each block would use a total of 25 Clue Units set 5x5 (each unit finishes at 3", and 3" x 5 = 15").
We have 25 pinwheels from Clue #3, which could each be the center of a block. We've made 100 Units in both Clue #2 and Clue #5, which can be divided up so each block gets 4 of each. But my math falls apart when we get to Clue #1 (having made 92 and 96 Units in two colorways) and Clue #4 (having made 120 Units).
So really, this is me just saying that I have no idea how these units are going to be used and how the blocks will turn out. What will come next week? Will we make even more units? Will we begin assembling blocks? Only time will tell. :)
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