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Stargazey patterns are colourful and contemporary in look and innovative in technique. The designs are 'crooked' in concept - every block is a little different, none are perfect, all are easy and fun to make! Your machine will be quickly humming with few templates, appliques or foundations in sight. Most patterns have multiple block sizes too, so that you can make quilts the size and setting you desire. With will illustrated step-by-step booklets, you should be stitching freely, quickly! See ordering pages for purchasing details.

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		Angelz These Guardian Galz and Christmas Cheerleaderz are here to grant your wishez. Grounded and ready to guard you or hovering freely on the lookout for ways to do good, these happy sprites stand boldly at the ready, aiming their wands. They could be fairiez but with their sweet faces you know they must be Angelz! In innovative Stargazey style there is no need for applique or templates, only design-as-you-go techniques that are easy enough for all to master. To make life sweeter, their facez and wingz are aren’t pieced in, instead their curves are easily stitched with a turn through technique. I’ve only made them in one size, 12” square but consider this merely a place to start. Options abound. Start by changing clothez, hair, facez, gender, wingz, add shoez and then see where these charmers lead you.

		Beez & Hivez Time for Stargazey gals to move outside again and consider Beez buzzing around their Hivez - what lovely images they conjure! Your vision may include healthy country air, it may be closer to home in your own beautiful flower filled garden, or may stretch to include the bountiful edible gift these busy creatures give to us. To help you fashion your busy bee vista I’ve designed two blocks. Sizes in both range from the tiny 4” through 6”, 8” to 10”. Both the hivez and beez tailz are made from strips easily pieced for a great graphic look. In the usual Stargazey style we have simple cutting and straight stitching, but with more pieces here than in many Stargazey patterns these blocks just aren’t the quickest blocks around. Get busy honey! Oops: Hivez cutting guide 10" Hivez background tops should read 4" x 5"

		Butterfliez Nature lovers delight as a crooked collection of Butterfliez and Mothz fly your way! First there came Butterfliez, but I’ve also given you the recipe for Mothz, a simplified version using fewer fabrics and processes. Both blocks can be made in four sizes, 4”, 6”, 8” and 10”. My sample has a variety of both in most sizes. You will be designing them without templates, as they are cut in the usual Stargazey style from squares and rectangles. Each crooked creature is unique. Making them is addictive. A great pattern to use up your wildest prints in the wingz and the biggest stripes in the body. Spread your wingz with me! PLEASE NOTE: The packaging on this pattern has changed. It has been reformatted and freshly edited and will be bigger and whiter!!!

		Catz I must fess up straight away - I’m a dog lover through and through. Cats have never yet matched it for me in exuberance, although I am a sucker for their beguiling purr. Perhaps if they were available for walks I’d feel better about them? Stargazey Catz though, are all charm and no clawz. Their cheeky grins and wide eyes will attract even hardhearted dog lovers like me. They still won’t help with the exercise but they give the smile muscles a work out! I’ve designed two blocks, a simple Catz Face in 4”, 6”, and 8” blocks and also Sitting Catz in 6”, 8” and 10” blocks. Both blocks make a feature of the collar, a lovely way to inject more colour. Both are easy to make with no finicky matching of points. Make them in your cats’ colours or markings and your princess will be sure to curl up on your quilt with a self satisfied purrrrr.

		Cuppaz Come and have a cuppa with me and transfer one of my favourite occupations into fabric. Make your quilt milky, dark, sweet or just stir things up with a spoonful of Stargazey Style. For these crooked cuppaz you are given a recipe but no templates - we start with simply cut squares and rectangles then you trim and design as you go. Make your quilt as individual as you are with this free method. No exact 1/4“ seams or perfectly matched corners are needed in these blocks. My sample is made in 6” blocks and sections of 6” blocks. You are also given the recipe for 4” & 8” blocks. Choose any size block, any number of blocks or a combination of sizes. Design your quilt to your taste! The handles here have been hand appliqued on, but other methods may be used- machine applique, rick-rack or bias tape for example. Definitely time for a Cuppa!

		Daisiez A very hip little block, this one. Reminiscent of the sixties and flower power, if you want it to be, or just delicately pretty with a more subtle choice of fabric. We start with the usual Stagazey style of working from simple squares and rectangles, then we get slashing and restitching making these crooked blocks the easiest around. Three blocks sizes to choose from; 6”, 8” and 10” with only three fabrics per block. I have pieced in the centrez but it would also be very effective to use a big button, yo-yo’s or even an appliqued circle. Imagine the sweet dreams you’ll be having under these flower fields!