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CATS IN SPACE

These cat astronauts, floating in a background of colorful stars, are made with conventional patchwork piecing. Use the pattern to make a 52” x 52” Small Quilt with four cats, or a 76” x 76” Large Quilt with nine.

Printed booklet patterns are shipping now! Your favorite quilt shop can order them from my distributors.

Pdf patterns will be available starting March 1, 2022.

 

FABRIC & KITS

The colorful fabrics in my sample are from my Planetarium and Paintbox print collections, and Kona Cotton Solids. A list of the fabrics I used is included in the pattern.

The background fabric in my quilt is Essex Yarn-Dyed Speckle in Dolphin.

Planetarium fabrics and a kit for making this quilt are available for wholesale preorder from Robert Kaufman Fabrics for shipping in April 2022.

NOTE ABOUT JET PACK HEIGHT

You may notice that, within the pattern, the cats’ jet packs are depicted as being two different heights. The piece sizes in the instructions are for making the shorter jet packs (and are complete and correct for doing so). If you’d like to make the taller jet packs, as shown in the quilt sample below, you can change the size of pieces GG, V, and HH, as follows:

  • Pieces GG = 3-3/4” x 4-3/4”

  • Pieces V = 1-1/4” x 2-1/4”

  • Pieces HH = 2-1/4” x 3”

If you’ve already cut your pieces, but want to make the jet packs taller, start by trimming your pieces GG to 3-3/4” x 4-3/4” each. There should be plenty of fabric remaining to re-cut pieces V and HH as noted above.

I apologize for this confusion!