On Instagram: Follow us @CorasQuilts and use #GypsyQueenMysteryQuilt and #CorasQuilts to share your photos.
On Flickr: Share your photos in our Gypsy Queen Mystery Quilt Group and please use the tags “Gypsy Queen Mystery Quilt” and “Coras Quilts”.
On your own blog, with our QAL button – available on our homepage.
We’ve also set up a Facebook QAL community for those who want to chat about their projects with fellow quilters. Anyone is welcome to join.
Starting next Friday, our QAL posts will be available every Friday morning around 6:00AM, California time. The final set of instructions will be posted on the Friday after Thanksgiving, so you’ll have plenty of time to have a finished quilt for the holidays.
Next Friday, we’ll post the official cutting instructions for those who’d like to knock out all their cutting at one time – there is quite a bit of cutting and some of our pattern testers shared that they preferred to do it week by week, so the choice is yours.
While the blocks in this quilt come together in a beautiful, intricate pattern, there are no special tools, templates, or applique are required. The blocks are put together in a straight-forward manner, all using traditional piecing and some “Stitch, Trim, & Flip” type blocks. We’ll also be making some Half-Square-Triangle (HST) and Flying Geese blocks, assembled in very traditional ways. If you have your own preferred methods of putting these blocks together, go for it! We’ve made notations throughout the cutting instructions to let you know which pieces NOT to cut if you’re using your own method.
Finally, let’s talk a little bit about Color Palettes tonight. Without giving too much away, here are some helpful hints when pulling together your own prints.
Print A – this should be your darkest, boldest print. It will live next to prints E and F, so make sure you have a good contrast.
Print E – she is a background print – color is ok, but it would need to contrast with A and B, and still be visible against the background.
Print F – lives near prints B and D, and should be subtle. Make sure that it still stands out against the background!
These three color palettes are just a place to get you started, but if you’d like to use them for your own project, kits are available for purchase by clicking here. Please note that shipping rates are for US addresses only. We are happy to ship internationally for an additional fee.
Pull together your yardage, get it all nicely pressed and starched, grab a new blade for your rotary cutter, and get ready to start on Friday – yipee!!
I am rummaging through my stash and would like to follow your color scheme for the Artisan palette. The palette square of samples A,B,C,D,E, and F don’t follow in the same order for the A,B,C,D,E,and F for the fabric yardage requirements. The “C” color in the palette is white with red and in the yardage chart it’s the orange. Sorry if I’m not following correctly. I haven’t done an online quilt along before and am very excited to be a part of this one!