Roll Roll Cotton Boll, Clue 5

Last week, I was current on my Roll Roll Cotton Boll, Bonnie Hunter's latest mystery quilt.

Not so, this week. Our task was to create 600 red and neutral 1 1/2" finished half square triangles.

Does this look like 600 to you?:



Me neither.

I'm enjoying the heck out of this mystery and hope to be caught up again by the weekend.

Roll Roll Cotton Boll, clue 4

I finally finished clues 3 and 4!

When I read clue 3 for Bonnie Hunter's Roll Roll Cotton Boll, I decided to do my own thing. I don't keep strings; I give them to quilty friend. I also knew I would be in The Bahamas for most of the week and wouldn't be home to sew. I pulled out my 1 1/2" strip box and decided to make log cabin squares instead. It took a while, but I finally finished them:



When I got home from vacation, I printed out clue 4. Relief! This was a quick one:



It feels great to be caught up, but how will I keep myself busy until Friday?