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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.

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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.

KoolKat on quilting trail for Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers.

We are excited to announce our participation in the Quilts, Stitches and Textiles Trail to be held September 20-28 during the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers program of events.

Visitors will be able to come to our studio and see Kat at work on her various textile art projects. Her handmade individual pieces will be for sale, as will some of her prize-winning quilts such as Gather Ye Rosebuds.

Geoff will be at work on our two industrial long arm quilting machines. Look our for bargains as we celebrate our 15th anniversary of providing our long arm machine quilting service to Toowoomba and region, and across the nation.

Entry will be by gold coin with donations to benefit LifeFlight.

KoolKat Off To The Quilt Shows

KoolKat off to the shows

September is the start of Spring and the quilt show season comes into bloom for KoolKat Quilting.   We will have a stall at Laidley Spring Carnival this week Thursday-Saturday at the Uniting Church Hall, Patrick Street, Laidley. Next week is the Toowoomba Quilt Exhibition held each year as part of the Toowoomba Carnival Flowers.  The quilt show starts Saturday 19th and runs through to Friday 25th, and is at the Salo Centre, Rome Street, Toowoomba.  See Kathy’s latest fabric designs and her recent forays into ceramic sculptures for quilters. Just a quick note about postage – we have received advice that Australia Post does not recognise its own “Do Not Safedrop” stickers, and will not return an undelivered parcel to your P.O. unless it is sent by registered post.  Should you wish to be absolutely sure of delivery to us, we recommend you pay the extra $3.00 for registered post.  If you have a street address, and may not be home during the day and do not want parcels left at your address, we recommend you ask us to  send it by registered post.  Unfortunately, due to rising postage costs, we cannot offer this as part of our free delivery service.

Kathy & Geoff Adams, KoolKat Quilting PH 07 4696 8746, International (617) 4696 8746. http://www.koolkatquilting.com/ http://www.koolkatquilting.com.au/index.php www.koolkatquilting.blogspot.com http://myworld.ebay.com.au/thatquiltingcatlady/ https://www.facebook.com/koolkatquilting   Mail: Reply Paid 18, PO Box 18, Harlaxton, Q 4350 Studio: 7 Crestview Crescent, Blue Mountain Heights, Toowoomba, Q 4350.   Quilters! – 7 day e2e machine quilting. Free delivery to and from KoolKat within Australia.  Please use our Reply Paid address above to send quilts free of charge.  Completed quilts returned free by Aust. Post with on-line tracking & insured to value of quilting.  Embroidered quilt labels, backings, wadding, original quilt patterns by Kathy Adams also available.