We’re getting close to the end!  This clue has you constructing the blocks.  I know that some of you will be chomping at the bit to put those blocks together but I just want to remind you that this is still a mystery……..so proceed at your own risk………hmmmmm.

Clue #4

Assemble 18 – Scrap-In-A-Box blocks as shown using one 2 1/2″ colored square in the center, 4 units from Clue #2 and 4 brick units from Clue #3

Assemble 10 – Half Blocks as shown using one 2 7/8″ colored HST in the center, one unit from Clue #2, two brick units and a left and right HST unit from clue #3.  (Sorry, I couldn’t get this guy to lay down!  LOL!)

Assemble 4 units using one left and right HST, one brick and one diagonal set aside from section B in Clue #3

And there you have Clue #4.  The final Clue #5 and the reveal will be presented on May 12th at 7pm EDT.  For those of you who have not chosen your sashing and border fabric, I would suggest that you lay out your blocks and chose a blender fabric in a color that will accentuate and compliment your blocks so that they pop.  No need to be shy with the color.  My blender fabric in the block is about the yellow in the diagram above and I chose a rich pumpkin pie for my sashing and border with a chocolate contrasting inside border…….all of which you will see next month at the reveal!  Happy Quilting!

Now I must get out in this wonderfully warm sunny spring day and get my gardens into shape.  No quilting for this one today!  And then it’s off to camp for a few days!  BTW, I am now legal to sell my patterns in NYS.  So, hopefully, when I return I can get busy getting the website ready for that.  Thank you all for your interest in ScrapitudeQuilts!

Yup! Here’s Clue #3 and, no, I haven’t lost my mind! Yet!!! Ha! Ha! Have fun with it!

Scrap-In-A-Box – Clue #3

Section (A): Cut the 23 colored 1 7/8″ squares on the diagonal to make 46 HSTs. Sew each colored HST to one background 1 7/8″ HST.   Make 14 with the colored HST on the right and 14 with the colored HST on the left. As shown below.  Set the remaining colored HST’s aside.  You should have 28 sections.  Trim off dog ears.

Section (B):  Cut the 8 – 3 1/4″ colored squares on both diagonals (32 sections).  Sew each section to the background triangle, as shown, to make a HST.   You should still have 28 sections.  Trim off dog ears. Set aside the remaining colored sections from the 3 1/4″ squares.

Section (C):  Cut the 7 – 5 1/4″ colored squares on both diagonals (28 sections).  Sew one 2 7/8″ background HST to each section.  14 to the right and 14 to the left.  As shown.  Like you would be making a flying geese (goose?) block but with only one side.  Trim dog ears.

Sew each (B) section to the corresponding (C) section to make a HST.  As shown below.  You should have 14 right sides and 14 left sides.  Trim.

Using the 1 1/2″ width of fabric strips, sew one colored and one background strip together lengthwise (the long way, not end to end).  *If your 2 1/2″ blender strips have not been cut into squares. Sew each blender strip to the colored  1 1/2″ strip.  Cut into 96 – 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ bricks.  *If your blender has been cut into 2 1/2″ squares. Cut the 1 1/2″ sewn strips into 96 – 2 1/2″ sections.  Sew each blender square to the colored side of the square to make a brick 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″.  As shown below.

And there you go!  You made it through the tricky stuff!  BTW I LOVE looking at all your progress on the Flickr page.  They all look so happy!  I love happy quilts!  If you haven’t already chosen your sashing and border fabric, now is a good time to look at your sections with your brick blenders and see what would compliment what you have.  I know sometimes with a mystery it can get kind of strange and you may think….”If I had only known, I would have done something different….”.  So lay out your pieces and get a feel of what color would really make those squares pop.

Have fun and the next clue will be on April 14th, 7 pm EDT.