We are pleased that Kathy Doughty will be our lecturer for our June guild meeting. Kathy grew up in the US. After graduation she worked in advertising, fashion, and marketing for ten years. In 1990 she married and moved with her husband to Australia, where they have lived with their three children.

In 1993 she made her first quilt and instantly fell in love with the "American"-style quilt. It connected her to her childhood and her home so far away and simple pleasures. She spent years making squares until she discovered triangles. Then she found an array of lively shapes and skills that took her into more complex quilting patterns. She enjoys that there is a lot to learn in quilting, and she says she will always want to fine-tune and add skills to the basics that she still loves. She connects with the idea of traditional quilts made modern by the influences of today. She says the many artists with whom she has worked over the years have opened her eyes to the principles of design, color, shape, and line.

In 2003 Kathy opened Material Obsession, a fabric shop in Australia and found the companionship needed to make life complete, people who share this patchwork passion with her! The shop is a place where quilters are encouraged to experiment with textiles, design, and method. It is a creative environment that is all about the discovery of adding layers one at a time.

Kathy has published a number of books and is a highly sought after speaker who has taught quilters around the world. She is a fabric designer, best-selling author of quilting books, and a global quilting instructor.

Her lecture, Making Confident Choices, is going to be a combination of her lecture “Then to Now” which is a timeline on how Kathy began quilting through to becoming an experienced, dedicated quilter and her lecture “Organic Applique” which focuses on how her experiences led her to developing the concepts for Organic Applique. In “Making Confident Choices”, Kathy combines her two lectures to highlight the learned experiences of making quilts using a variety of techniques.

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