Next month during the annual Carnival of Flowers program Kat of KoolKat will be opening her studio and exhibiting her award-winning quilts.
The exhibition will be part of a Quilts, Stitches and Textiles Trail.
Kat’s signature quilt, Gather Ye Rosebuds, will be among those on display. Originally designed as a Block of the Month, several versions of this quilt have won awards both here and overseas.
Kat first discovered the design in a book of stained glass window designs. It had been simplified from a design by Alex Gascoyne in 1910. The design came to life in a large window panel in a house in Sherwood, Brisbane. After taking up quilting, Kat rediscovered the pattern and went through the process of converting it to a quilt design. This was an exacting and time-consuming process, eventually requiring nearly 100 pages of pattern design, released in a 13 part pattern set.
The process was described in detail in an article in Australian Patchwork and Quilting magazine.
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Gather Ye Rosebuds will be feature in a catalogue of items for sale during KoolKat’s Open Studio September 20-7.
