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Kathy, with husband Geoff own and operate KoolKat Quilting, a long arm quilting service. We specialise in fast mail order quilting and offer FREE Postage Australia - wide to our many customers.

Kat’s Kool Kreations in Laidley

See Kat of Kat’s Kool Kreations at Laidley Craft and Quilt Show at the Uniting Church Hall, Patrick Street, Laidley. The show runs until Saturday pm.

Kat’s Open Studio during Carnival Week

Textile artist, Kat Adams, of 7 Crestview Crescent, Blue Mountain Heights will open her quilt studio to visitors during Carnival of Flowers week. Opening hours are 10-4pm Friday 20th to Friday 27th September.

Kat’s open studio is part of the Quilt, Stitches and Textile Trail which includes the Toowoomba Quilters annual quilt show among other embroidery, spinning and weaving and textile art displays at various locations around Toowoomba.

Kat has been quilting and stitching for over 25 years and has produced prize winning quilts, as well as quilting for others on her long-arm quilting machines. Some of her quilts made over the years will be on display, and she will be demonstrating how she makes her colourful and funky bags, runners and cushions. Husband Geoff will demonstrate the long-arm quilting process as well. Quilts and crafted items will be available for purchase. Admission is via a gold coin with all proceeds going to support Lifeflight. Self serve tea and coffee will be available and there is ample street parking and limited on-site disabled parking.

For further information about Kat’s Open Studio visit:

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

and the textile trail, visit

https://www.tcof.com.au/quilts-stitches-textiles-trail/

or telephone Kat on 0412 830 175

Irish swirls and ebb and flow e2e patterns.

Nina from Yungaburra sent 2 quilts which arrived today. The first “Kaleido-blue” is being quilted with the Irish swirls e2e pattern, while “Day on the lake” is being quilted with the ebb and flow pattern.

Starlight e2e machine quilting pattern.

This applique quilt was made by Leanne from Dalby and is being quilted with the starlight e2e machine quilting pattern. It demonstrates that e2e quilting is suitable for applique quilts, without the necessity of expensive custom quilting around the edges of the applique.

True Blue wall hanging quilt

“True Blue” is another wall-hanging size quilt designed by Kat of KoolKat that will be featured in her quilt exhibition as part of the Quilts, Stitches and Textiles Trail during Carnival of Flowers week this month. The quilt features the thread painting technique and was constructed as 9 separate mini-quilts before joining together as one piece.

Many different thread colours were used in free motion quilting to give a great effect of depth, light and shade.

Simplicity and leaf meander e2e patterns

The grey cot quilt Forest Friends, was made by Raelene from St George and is being quilted with the simplicity e2e machine quilting pattern. The second king size quilt was made by Desley from Vale View for her caravan, and is being quilted with the budget leaf meander e2e pattern.

The Art Nouveau Garden quilt.

The Art Nouveau Garden is a wall-hanging similar to Gather Ye Rosebuds in that it shows Kat’s love of batik and raw edge applique. It is based on a work by the artist Alphonse Mucha. This quilt was also designed as a block of the month. The first version with the elegant figure in the centre panel proved somewhat challenging, hence a second version with a landscape panel was designed.

For more information and details of what’s happening at KoolKat Quilting as part of the Quilts, Stitches and Textiles Trail during Carnival of Flowers week this month, go to:

Quilting and Textiles Trail, Toowoomba 2019

KoolKat brochure Open Studio, September 2019