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Housez
For these housez you will be given a recipe but no templates
- trimming and designing as you go to make each unique. Make
your quilt as individual as you are in this free Stargazey style.
No exact 1/4“ seams or perfectly matched corners needed
in these blocks!
My sample is made in 4”, 6”, 8”, & 10”
blocks but you will be given the recipe for 12” housez
also. Choose any size block, any size quilt or a combination
of blocks. My picket fence is pretty fine too but a simpler
border might be your choice.
I chose to vary both the house and the background fabrics for
my favoured scrappy look, but you may choose a minimum of one
fabric for each.
Oops:
cutting guide
10" & 12", in full, may need switching
eg. the 10" roof should be 5" x 8 1/2" and the
12" roof should be 5" x 11" |
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Ladybirdz
"Ladybird ladybird fly away home,
your house is on fire and the children all gone...."
It's a wonderful nursery rhyme with a slightly macabre tone
but the ladybirdz in my imagination and experience live more
fortunate lives. I adore their roundness, their 'fire engine
red' coat, their whimsical black spots, and especially the way
they amble happily over my hand - they certainly put a smile
on my face.
In Stargazey Style they couldn't be easier to construct. Choose
a body colour, add a touch of black for the head and backbone
then a zappy background fabric. Simple cutting and stitching
will get them quickly on the move.
Ladybirdz can be made in four sizes; 4", 6", 8"
and 10". Then there are two ways to situate them in their
block - 'straight' or 'on point'. In my sample I've set mine
in a medallion style using all sizes and both versions. They
would also work well in a simple block grid to look like a specimen
box or combined with Butterfliez and Beez out in the garden.
Don't get stuck on just red ladybirdz either - beetlez and bugz
come in all sorts of coatz, a blue coat could turn ladybirdz
into the Christmas beetle of my childhood.
Fly home, forget the kids and get stitching!
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Leavez
Falling with autumn splendour, creating shade from the summer
sun, growing in vines up and over fences - leavez are a simple
image but a very useful one.
In wonderfully easy Stargazey Style here are Leavez that are
both simple and quick to cut and piece. They can be made in
three block sizes - 4”, 6” and 8” - with a further
choice of whether you would like them to be stitched ‘straight’
or ‘on point’.
Setting choices are as varied as there are gardens. I have made
my sample into sets of upright single stem plants. You may prefer
your Leavez to wander vine-like as a border, have them tumbling
randomly earthbound in all sizes and variations, or set up to
record your family tree.
My scrappy green Leaves are set against a fresh spring sky.
You could think of the different seasons, think of different
lights, think of different plants and different places. Most
of all think about stitching a copious pile of them! |
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Sail Boatz
Whipping up a stack of Stargazey Sailboatz is a breeze! As is
usually the case with Stargazey patterns there will be little
exact cutting, few exact seams, and no templates to worry about.
Relax and design your quilt to suit you - the sample is only
the starting point. I give you the “recipe” for 6”,
8” & 10” blocks as merely the base to create from.
My sample utilizes all three sizes.
Crazy style piecing has been used to fill my seaz and skiez.
Your blocks, squared up, would sit just as nicely framed with
sashing or in simple same size rows.
Fabrics may be scrappy like mine or based on a single favourite.
Colour, too, need not be traditional sea tones.
I invite you to come sailing through this quilt with me.
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Signed with Hugz & Kissez
I’ve got a little obsession with X’s at the moment,
be careful it may be catching!
This sample is just to get you warmed up to the idea. Signed
with Hugz and Kissez presents you with O and X blocks, or hugz
and kissez, in 4”, 6” and 8” blocks. They are
easily cut and sewn from squares and rectangles, with no templates
and no perfect 1/4” seams required. Each block is unique.
Choose which size blocks you will need, set them how you like
and colour them to suit your loved one - vary the quilt according
to your hearts desire. A great message to give just about anyone.
Of course you could make it up like a game board of noughts
and crosses for the tiny folk too!
PLEASE NOTE:
The packaging on this pattern has changed. It has been reformatted
and freshly edited and will be bigger and whiter!!!
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Shoez
Look into any gals wardrobe and you’ll find an abundance
of different shapes, styles, colours and trims. The Shoe collection!
Which style do I choose? High heels, trainers, sandals or slip-ons?
Which point of view should I choose to best represent most of
us?
Look into the resulting Stargazey wardrobe and you’ll
see we have created a line-up of elegant Shoez that will suit
any female. There are basic pumpz, there are shoez with Mary-Jane
strapz and each one has a button embellishment to change and
define their character.
Originally I wanted to use buckles, fabric bows and ballet shoe
ribbons - all easy variations on the Shoez theme - but they
must wait for next season.
Stargazey Style is present, as usual, with easy cutting, simple
stitching and a design-as-you-go freedom. Shoez are made as
individuals, but worked as pairs which in turn combine to make
block sizes of 6”, 8” and 10” square.
Step into my Shoez here and get working on some of your own.
I can’t wait to see what is lurking in your imaginative
wardrobe!
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