I’m so excited to announce that my Fairy Tale Castle pattern is now available! This a big castle, finishing at 18″x24″, and the windows are perfect for fussy cutting little prince and princesses, mythical creatures, pirates and more! I designed this block as a part of my Wombat Stew paper piecing bee for Gina’s fairy tale month. In fact, there’s some very exciting news about this quilt later in the post…
Choosing what to feature in the windows and what colour to use for my tower roofs was my favourite part of the whole block! I used some Little Apples children, and as it’s a fairy tale castle, why wouldn’t there be a magical room with a blue tree in the highest room of the tallest tower?! Not to mention the Simply Color metal grate gate. It’s hard to see in the photo, but in real life you would see that I have used two different colours of Sketch for the first two layers of castle walls. My fabulous pattern testers have done a better job at showing you the different layers:
Teresa has made a very elegant castle, with a beautiful vine-esque swirly brown print. I love a castle with vines!
Renate made a sweet castle – who else wants a room full of fresh flowers!
Karen calls her fairy tale castle “Watch Out, Snow White!” and I couldn’t agree more!
Ali made a very modern castle – I can picture it hidden in a Scandinavian forest!
Rebecca chose beautiful colours for her castle, and I love the fireworks in the background! Maybe a new royal baby was born? Or the Lorax saved the world?
Melissa whipped up a whole wallhanging of fairy tale goodness!
Nilya chose a beautiful range of fabrics to use for her fairy tale castle – look at those sweet little people!
But this pattern is not just for fairy tales, oh no indeed! Joanne has made a pirate castle! Argh, me hearties!!
And perhaps the best promo for this new fairy tale castle pattern is that the reason this block came to be for my Wombat Stew paper piecing bee just won the Bee Quilt category for the Blogger’s Quilting Festival! A huge congratulations to Gina! I’m so thrilled to have been a part of your amazing quilt, and so proud of our Bee for having won two quilt festivals in a row! Earlier this year my mini quilt from the bee won the Wallhanging category.
Teresa says
I love all of those Fairy tale castle.
That Bee quilt is amazing!!!
Best,
Teresa
Susie says
This is wonderful. So talented.
Hilary says
This is really awesome!! I might have to make one for myself 🙂
Serena @ Sewgiving says
Purchasing of castle is on my must-do-list today 🙂 I’m not at all surprised that the Fairytale quilt won – it’s definitely a collaborative work of art – congratulations!
Ms Midge says
Great bundle of castles!
gina says
Love seeing all the different versions of your awesome castle; it is definitely a fun and versatile pattern! yay for Wombat Stew!!
Joanne says
Each castle is unique. It was a fun pattern to make. I am just finishing the binding. Joanne
Melissa says
Love it! And just bought it! I was just looking for something to send my niece for Christmas. They are in India doing missionary work and she wants a quilt but couldn’t risk sending a whole quilt there in case it went missing. So a mini is perfect! And congrats to you and your bee for the win! It’s such a lovely quilt!
DeborahGun says
it is brilliant Alyce 🙂 I know my nieces are going to want this!
Esther says
Fabulous! Those testblocks are just AWESOME, i love that it is so versatile, pirates, princesses, loraxes!!!
Esther
Jeneta says
These all look amazing Alyce! I’m waiting for the Mac version of EQ7 to come out…
Beverly says
This is adorable! I can’t wait to try making it.
shirley tener says
bought it.. Perfect timing for my 3 princess, for xmas..
Soma says
Beautiful castles! Congrats to your bee for the win!
Ali M says
Thank you so much for the opportunity to pattern test, I love seeing all the different versions!
Aylin-Nilya says
It´s such a sweet pattern – well done, Alyce 🙂
Joanie says
Congrats on winning at the Bloggers Quilt Festival! The castles are so wonderful and the quilt is great too. Love the fussy cuts in the windows.
Cheryl says
What a beautiful block!
Melanie says
How do I find the pattern for this lovely castle?
Alyce says
Thanks! You can find it in my shop here: https://shop.blossomheartquilts.com/products/fairy-tale-castle-pdf-pattern
Pamela Meyers Arbour says
Wow, I remember when you started this one, but it just wasn’t for me at the time. Now I find myself entered in a blog hop and June’s theme is Fairy Tales. I managed to find your pattern and purchase it, but I can’t figure out how to become a member on Facebook. Maybe that is over by now? Anyway, I will be sure to send you the link to the hop when I post it. I happened to have gotten some fabric when I was in Germany and I thought it would fit perfect for the theme and your castle pattern. I believe it will be just the right size.
Karen says
Where are the directions? The pieces have no seam allowances and there are no instruction sheets for putting this quilt together. I bought what I thought was a detailed pattern and I got only paper out lines of the pieces. It would take hours for me to work this out for myself. So disappointed!
Alyce says
Hi Karen,
As the product listing mentions, it is a foundation paper pieced pattern. If you do not know this technique, you can find my free tutorial here: http://www.blossomheartquilts.com/2016/12/foundation-paper-piecing-tutorial/