I think making your own rendition of a Gypsy Wife 'inspired' quilt could be exciting, rewarding and hair-pulling-out frustrating. You would need to start with your orphan blocks and a large design wall. Lay out the blocks in a pattern that pleases you. Then calculate and start making filler blocks or strips. (I wonder if that is how Jen Kingwell came to write the pattern--lots of orphan blocks. Hmmmm)
The one thing that I never liked about the Gypsy Wife pattern, was that my eye had no place to rest. Everything was so tremendously 'busy'. A person could get around that by using some sort of constant sashing, or borders on some, or all of their blocks.