Cosmos Mystery Quilt

To be or not to be a mystery: the choice is yours!

Quilters tend to be squarely (pun intended!) on one side or the other when it comes to enjoying a mystery quilt. Regardless of where you find yourself on the mystery quilt continuum, join Shelley Cavanna from Cora’s Quilts in Creative Spark's release of her Cosmos Mystery Quilt Along. Known for her best-selling book, Barn Star Sampler, Shelley has a reputation for being the queen of the quilt-a-longs! As a longtime quilter and designer, the Cosmos Mystery Quilt is her eighth mystery quilt-along. This quilt-along finished in Spring of 2024 but the entire class is available now.

Shelley understands the apprehension many quilters face when deciding to make a mystery quilt. That’s why she is keen to offer you options on how much of a mystery you want your quilt to be! Choose to experience the whole program blind and watch it unfold over twelve weeks, or you can sneak a peek at the finished project on her website to see if you like the direction you'll be headed in. The choice is yours!

Start by choosing your fabric with confidence; the first clue provides a color theory guide to picking fabric and covers the fabric requirements and cutting instructions. Next, Shelley will teach basic quilt piecing skills, with tutorials on making small elements like flying geese, square-in-a-square, four patches, and more.

Shelley has found that this narrowed focus takes the anxiety and fear out of working on large or complex-looking quilts. As the weeks/clues go by, you’ll start to join these familiar shapes into a stunning, mosaic-inspired quilt. If curiosity gets the better of you, at any time, you can skip ahead and take a sneak peek at the finished quilt. By the end of 12 weeks, you’ll have a finished quilt top.

Four Size Options!

The digital download of the Cosmos Quilt Pattern has options to make the quilt in four different sizes. The four different sizes are a 48" x 48" wall hanging, a 68" x 68" throw-size, an 88" x 88" full-size, and a 108" x 108" king-size. Scroll down for more information on fabric requirements.