Monthly Archives: August 2019

A Year in My Garden

A Year in My Garden is another of Kat’s award-winning quilts which will be exhibited as part of the Quilts, Stitches and Textiles Trail during Carnival of Flowers week next month.  This wall-sized quit records the flora and fauna observed by Kat  over a 12 months period outside her studio at Blue Mountain Heights.  Extensive embroidery is a feature of this piece.

For more information, go the following links:

http://www.koolkatquilting.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/one-page-brochure.pdf

http://www.koolkatquilting.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/QSTT19-Brochure-Proof-3.pdf

Apple blossom and budget meandering leaves patterns

The quilt is the foreground comes from Anita at Brookstead and is being quilted with the apple blossom e2e machine quilting pattern.  Katrina from Toowoomba delivered a long narrow quilt to be cut into several cot quilts.  It is being quilted with the budget meandering leaves pattern.

Gather Ye Rosebuds quilt

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.

Kathy’s Gallery

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.

http://www.koolkatquilting.com.au/images/uploads/gather%20ye%20rosebuds%20p1%20001.jpg

http://www.koolkatquilting.com.au/images/uploads/gather%20ye%20rosebuds%20p2%20001.jpg

Gather Ye Rosebuds will be feature in a catalogue of items for sale during KoolKat’s Open Studio September 20-7.

Our Open Studio during Carnival Week.

KoolKat will be having an Open Studio session during the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers week. 

We will be part of the Quilts, Stitches and Textiles Trail.

http://www.koolkatquilting.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/QSTT19-Brochure-Proof-3.pdf

Kat’s award winning quilts will be on display, and in order to make space for new projects, several of these will be available for purchase.

Also in Kat’s studio during Carnival Week, visitors will be able watch Kat at work producing her textile art pieces similar to the cushions above.

http://www.koolkatquilting.com/kats-kool-kreations-2/

These feature free motion quilting, applique and wool couching.

Look forward to seeing you during Carnival Week.