peaceandjoy

I was excited to see this layout as I like it very much. Then I realized that I don't think it will work b/c of the lopped off goose heads. Or Santa hats, which sounds much nicer, especially this time of year. Where the blog writer has theirs, the "hat" is in gold, which would be where Bonnie's red is.

I still think that the headless geese/Santa hat units will be cut in half. If you look at the unit next to the 4-patch in Fabadashery's possibility, you'll see something what that unit would look like. A HST with a square @ the bottom. For those using Bonnie's colors, the HST would be 1/2 red, 1/2 grey with a neutral square at the bottom. The red portion of the HST would be the one abutted to the large neutral brick.

I came up with this guess when somebody was talking about possibly string piecing a unit and how we'd been fooled by those string units that ended up being cut in half on the diagonal in a past mystery. Bonnie is very clever at keeping the mystery solution hidden. Cutting those hats in half would make the missing point - which will be even more obvious when the seam allowance is added - go away.

Podunk Princess

Never thought of cutting the Santa Hats in half.......hmmmmm.

baronreads

Peaceandjoy - ingenious! That is so sly and tricky on Bonnie's part, but makes so much sense! I can't wait till we start putting these together!! This is so much fun!

audsgirl

JeanieG post 836---I'm using the same gray as you! I like looking at everyone's fabrics to see if I have any of the same ones. Your pieces all look terrific.

Leslie

joe'smom

Everyone's units look wonderful! Won't these be beautiful quilts!

Finally I am done with clue #2. I also was able to cut my golds today and match with neutrals, so I think I may have a chance of actually finishing clue #3 before clue #4 is up (that would be a first for me, finishing a clue on time).

I'm kind of aghast at the thought of cutting the geese in half, as I chose those neutrals with the idea of the matched sets in mind. Some of them are quite dark, so I hope they work out!

JeanieG

We must be on the same "wave lengths"!

SunlitenSmiles

like the hot cross buns block.....Bonnie used that with a nine patch and a on point setting for a Garden Something (I forget) a while back.

Bluebonnets

I have missed a lot of postings and it's been fun catching up on my reading. All of the clues look great and it's exciting to see everyone's clues coming together.

I've been busy too and I love how it's coming together.

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This clue took a lot of the neutrals.

Macybaby

Bluebonnets - I love how yours look! I love the gold/neutral combination.

AmyBible

Podunk - bluebonnets - Joe's Mom (good job catching up!) -- all of your fabrics are beautiful... all using, essentially, Bonnie colors - they will be so different but equally amazing quilts! Love seeing everyone's scraps!.. (and constants).

I know it might a red herring but I just don't believe Bonnie would have us make Headless Geese just to cut them in half... why not just make regular geese? The headless geese cut in half would still have a small 1/4" piece on the side that would have to be trimmed. Why would she have us waste fabric just to preserve the element of surprise?
The pieces will serve some very important part of the "tile" block but now I am thinking they will *not* be used to form part of any star shape - it's got to be something else, right?
But I have no guesses.

I know Bonnie probably reads her Open Studio FB page regularly but do you think she reads this board? She is probably having a good laugh at all the guesses which are most likely all wrong...haha!
Clue 4#will confuse us even more!!