Good Fortune! A Quiltville Mystery 2018 Bonnie K Hunter. All Rights Reserved. around from Beijing to Xian and beyond. Introduction From the beautiful hand painted detail on the Temple of Heaven - It s Mystery Introductory Time! I hope you are ready for a bit of Good Fortune as we make our way through the holiday season. This year s mystery was drawn from my experiences in China just a year ago. I am so excited about this quilt, and I know you will be too. But before I go any further let me get something off my chest. This is NOT an Asian looking quilt. You can use any style of fabrics you wish! I didn t make it all with Asian fabrics I simply played with a selection of colors that showed themselves again and again and again as we traveled To the jade green of ancient ceramic roof tiles Complete with dragon! 1
Large prints are not recommended as you don t know where they will end up or the sizes of units that make up the quilt. Our stunning quilt finishes at 72 x 72, a bit smaller than in years past. Even the rafters are full of design and color. If you want an even smaller size, start with 1/2 the units. You can always go back and make more units once you decide on your own layout. If you want it bigger, you can add more borders, or make more blocks after you ve seen the reveal. Just plan your fabric accordingly. More gorgeous roof detail. Never forget to look UP! This post will contain the colors, examples of the fabrics used in my own Good Fortune quilt, and yardage requirements. You are NOT required to sew with these colors, and you can change them to whatever color palette you would like, but please remember value and contrast when switching things up. I view our mysteries not just as A Pattern but as a vehicle to teach methods, tips, tricks, helps and hints while working with each unit. I will provide a printer-friendly PDF for each clue, and for those wanting to save paper, just save the PDF to your computer or tablet and look at it there without printing it out. Save clues to a place where you can find them! You can choose to print certain pages but not others from within your own printer settings. You can also copy/paste the blog post into a word document and delete extra photos, extra text that you don t need. Just save the nitty-gritty. You can choose how to save paper/ink 2
yourself. My job is to teach, however many pages it takes. PAINT CHIPS: These are NOT required, but they are helpful when choosing many fabrics that have to work together from your stash. These are guidelines only, and I have even pushed the boundaries of those color families a bit in all directions, so I have a quilt with more life that doesn t look so flat. Yardage amounts are for scraps and/or planned yardage. If you want one piece of yardage for each color, you are fine there too, but you may not want to commit too soon to one thing as you don t know what we are doing. Why not just follow along ALL THE WAY? Dive in and learn with the process! I will be unavailable to give personal fabric choice advice. Our mystery is running during my bran new book release. It s nearly String Frenzy time! Thank you for understanding. Our paint chips this year come from the Sherwin Williams line at Lowes. I have also listed the color pages from the Ultimate 3-in-1 Color Tool found in the Quiltville Store at Quiltville.com/shop.html for those who want guidance, but don t have access to or don't want to pick up paint chips. In this year s mystery there is not a constant fabric playing a strategic role. Everything revolves around a variety of fabrics by color family. Jay Blue SW6797 (Pages 11 12 on the color tool) Kilkenny SW6740 (Pages 4-5 on the color tool) Show Stopper SW7588 (Page 19 on the color tool) Robust Orange SW6628 (Page 22-23 on the color tool) Outgoing Orange SW6641 (same as above) Neutrals: Marshmallow SW7001 Choice Cream SW6357 Oyster Bar SW7565 And Beyond! 3
My fabrics run the gamut every style of fabric within these color families, pushing the boundaries of each color, not matching paint chips exactly remember they are just a general guide not a rule! Some of my fabrics, pulled with the paint chips. Yardage requirements for Good Fortune: Greens: 1 1/4 yards Blues: 2 yards. Reds: 1 3/4 yards Oranges: 3 2/3 yards Neutrals: 6 yards Things to remember - Seams take up a LOT of fabric, up to 25% when the piecing is small. Don t be alarmed at the yardage requirements given. The more pieces per block, the more fabric is in the seams. Plan accordingly and know that individual yardage requirements may vary depending on width/length and sizes of scraps used. You may need more or less fabric depending on the method you choose for each unit I present. I believe I have given ample yardage for even the methods that would use the most fabric. You can t go to China without seeing Red, Blue & Green together! Often times accented with gold. The abundance of red is deeply rooted in Chinese culture; it represents power, status, and confidence to ancient Chinese royalty. Red also means happiness, wealth, prosperity, and GOOD FORTUNE! The Golden Season in China October! 4
Specialty Rulers: Rather than a harvest or metallic gold, we are pushing this color family into the ORANGE spectrum. My Essential Triangle Tool. It s going to be a wonderfully fun mystery! ANYONE with a bit of confidence can make this quilt if they take it one step at a time. MEASURE MEASURE MEASURE your units. Make sure they are coming out the right size BEFORE you make them all. I will be demonstrating the use of this ruler set during the Good Fortune mystery. Regular rotary cutting sizes will be given for those who don t wish to use this ruler. The ruler is currently 20% off in the Quiltville Store and will remain on sale for the duration of the mystery. You also get a free Wanderlust Table Runner PDF pattern with purchase, straight to your inbox! 5
Bonus Buddy Ruler. If you have the Essential Triangle Tool package, you ve already got this on hand. For those who don t you MAY want one. It s optional, but it helps! Especially for the needle holes helping you find your correct seam allowance. Find it in the Quiltville Store. Simple Folded Corners Mini I love this smaller version for working with the sizes of units we are dealing with this time. (Sorry no hints! It s a mystery!) Available on sale in the Quiltville Store. If you purchased the large version for our On Ringo Lake mystery, that will work for this time too. If you don t have one, you may want the smaller one. Again these are optional, but they made this quilt come together very easily. I am not giving out shapes or sizes for Accuquilt dies as they reveal too much ahead of time. Thank you for understanding. Mystery time is supposed to be fun. It is supposed to help you relax and enjoy a bit of something nice for yourself during the busy holiday season. The best advice I can give to anyone is to stay with the clues, and even if you are busy, make a few of each clue each week so that you have a handle on what each unit and technique is. Then after the holidays when things settle down you can pick up and finish the amount required for each step. Clues will come every Friday with the first clue going live on Black Friday, November 23rd. No set time of release of the clue is given, but generally before 9am eastern time. Thank you for understanding that sometimes life [and holiday hubbub] gets in the way for me too. I will be adding a GOOD FORTUNE tab at the top of the blog where all parts for this mystery will be found. Printer- 6
Friendly links to PDF downloads will also be found at the top of each clue, hopefully as clues are released but if they are a bit delayed, just know that they are photo and text heavy and do take time and I appreciate the slack. If they aren t linked on each post when posted, check the next day for the updates. Post links are also manually added to the Good Fortune tab and it may take a few minutes after posting the blog to get them added there as well. It is up to YOU to print your clues as they are released and to save them in a place where you can find them easily. This mystery will be retired from my blog on Feb 1, 2019 and placed in the digital downloads section of the Quiltville Store for purchase at that time. tutorials or make videos and post directions in your own media. Let's keep this a mystery for everyone. Please simply direct your readers here to my blog where they can print their own clues. Thank you for respecting what goes into running this mystery. We will be using the hashtags #quiltville #quiltvillemystery and #goodfortunequilt in all social media for the duration of our mystery. As this mystery goes from 2018 into 2019 it is actually helpful to NOT post a year in your hashtag, so we can find your posts more easily. Hashtag away! I am not stating the number of clues in this quilt at this time because I do like to keep it a mystery, enjoy the process and perhaps keep you guessing a bit more. Depending on what is going on in my life, I may break clues down even farther, in hopes that it might make the holidays more peaceful for all. I invite you to post to your social media be it blogs, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or what-have-you. Please do NOT share piece count or unit sizes in your posts, rewrite my And always remember never forget! NO WHINING!! 7
photocopying for sharing, scanning or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the author. Please no uploading and saving of this file with intent to share, email or distribute, either digitally or in hard copy. NOT FOR RESALE. Here s to a bright future filled with Good Fortune! Please send your friends to my blog to print their clues. Thank you! Quiltville Quote of the Day - Vintage applique quilt found in Bedford, VA. Have a Happy Halloween, everyone! Get gathering those fabrics! This mystery is given for personal use only. No part may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical including 8