Grassy Creek Mystery

 I was slow starting Bonnie Hunter's new Grassy Creek Mystery, but I got caught up on the first two clues this week.

I haven't used Bonnie's colors the past few years, but this year, I think I will.  Only I didn't have enough gold fabric and don't want to buy any fabric for this quilt, so I'm using what gold I have and using yellow for the rest.  My gray is all the same for the first clue too since I had a big piece of it to use up. 

  I am also not going to deliberately make units of the same colors and keep them clipped together as the directions say to do. This is a scrap quilt, so I'm just not going to get that fussy about it!  Last year's quilt Frolic had the same instructions as to clipping units together.  I ignored them last year, and my quilt turned out fine.  Here's my Frolic: