The elf on the shelf has whispered in my ear – Christmas is coming!

At KoolKat, we know that finances are tight at the moment, so we are offering an incredible deal to our valued customers between now and December 1st. Do you have unfinished quilt tops in the cupboard, or are you planning to give quilts this Christmas to loved ones? We can help!

So, this is the deal. If we receive your quilt for quilting between now and December 1st, all quilting will be HALF the normal price!

(Standard quilting price and excluding the set-up fee, backings and batting.)

PLUS! Wait – there’s more!

We will do bindings on your quilts at NO CHARGE!

That means you will get your quilt back, ready to gift, and you don’t have to do a thing!

We can even supply the fabric for this at no charge! Make sure you tick the required binding (either single or double sided machine stitched binding) on our order form, which is available on our website.

That’s it! Just make sure your quilt is posted in time to reach us before December 1st. We will finish quilting for the year on 5th December, so any quilts received after 1st December may have to be held over until the New Year.

(We need a holiday!)

So, happy Christmas in advance, everyone!

Love from KoolKat!

How do you choose a suitable backing fabric for your quilt? There are quite a few things to consider. 

At KoolKat we use the same thread colour top and bottom. This is because the machines we use have to travel in all directions, unlike your domestic machine. There are unavoidable sections where thread tension may vary a little. This means that if a different colour thread was used on the bottom, small sections could show the different colour. The best way to avoid this is to keep the top and bottom thread the same, which we always do.

With that in mind, consider what thread colour you’d like on your quilt. If, for example you favour a cream colour, it may be best to select a warm neutral print for the back. Think warm, warm, or cool, cool. This will ensure a good blending of colour on both sides of your quilt.

Print or plain? Which is best? We favour subtle prints, and tend to avoid using directional prints. If you do have a directional backing, don’t forget to mark the top of both backing and quilt top, so there will be no confusion.

Consider the quality of your quilt backing. If you want a darker colour backing, please avoid those dark prints which are printed onto a white base. You can check this by looking at the back of the fabric. If the fabric is dark printed on light, the stitching on our machines may leave small white dots, where the base fabric is showing through. Fabrics which are dyed all the way through are excellent, as are yarn dyed fabrics. (Woven with dyed threads). Having said that, quality, soft, medium thread count fabrics usually perform well.

Please don’t use sheets to back your quilts, as the high thread count causes excess puncture holes as the needle goes through the fabrics. The only exception would be well washed, soft cotton sheets. 

Now, a word about “double sided” quilts. It really is almost impossible for us to centre your quilt on the backing in two directions. This is because as the layers wind on it is impossible to accurately predict the centre. There may be looseness in the quilt top or backing, which makes one side wind up quicker than the other. It is fine to join several fabrics together to make your backing, but it is best to only make the backing 8” longer and 8” wider than your quilt top. If the pieced backing is super big, it is difficult to work with. Don’t forget to trim your backing so that it is perfectly square. That means no overhanging edges where pieces have been joined.

Failing all that, we can choose from our stash a suitable backing for your quilt, so you don’t need to think about it at all! Happy quilting, from KoolKat!

p.s. BTW, did you know that we always give a discount for two or more quilts posted at the same time! You can buddy up with a friend also to receive this discount!

Kat Adams

0412 830 175

koolkatquilting@bigpond.com

koolkatquilting.com

PO Box 18

Harlaxton 4350

Due to unforeseen circumstances we have reverted to our previous mailing address. This is PO Box 18 Harlaxton 4350. Disregard any links, documents business cards, etc with a Highfields PO Box number.

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KoolKat Quilting has restarted from new premises today 2/2/2024.   

Please use our PO Box 18 Harlaxton 4350 to send quilts. For  Highfields only we will pick up and collect by prior arrangement for a fee of $10.00.

PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING

Please don’t expect us to find you have changed your email or any other address and haven’t brought this to our attention, especially during a busy period. If you haven’t received our usual prompt email say within one week, please follow up yourself, especially when the emails we send to an apparently valid address don’t bounce.

Secondly absolutely no 2″ wide material binding.

ONLY ever 2 1/2 ” – 2″ is too hard to work with, especially our machine method of double sided binding.

Thirdly CHECK the perimeter of the quilt, THEN be generous with the binding length you send.

We haven’t charged for the inconvenience, but may do so in future.

CHANGES TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS

A couple of things to take note of:

1. For reasons of location, we will be ceasing the drop and pick up facility. This will mean there will be no drop off and collection box..

Highfields 4352 customers will be offered a delivery service at $10 by prior arrangement only. Our new street address will not be on our new letterhead. There will no longer be any face to face contact or drop off and collect facility at our new address.

2. If we judge that all of the quilts arrive at different times, and they could arrived together, we will charge for that repeat posting. You can avoid this by ensuring items arrive together in ONE parcel, even using tape to strap two parcels together.

3. We are now recovering costs for use of credit cards. To avoid this you should be using bank, or EFT transfer.

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Two messages for this page.

Please don’t expect us to find you have changed your email or any other address and haven’t brought this to our attention, especially during a busy period. If you haven’t received our usual prompt email say within one week, you should asking yourself why, especially the emails we send to an apparently valid address don’t bounce.

That is just a common courtesy, and just bring to our an attention to any change you have made by choice.

Secondly absolutely no 2″ wide material binding.

ONLY ever 2 1/2 ” – 2″ is too hard to work with, especially our machine method of double sided binding.

Thirdly CHECK the perimeter of the quilt, THEN be generous with the binding length you send – we’ve had avoidable errors from at least 2 customers which needlessly complicated our time.

Hopefully this will make your check what you are doing regarding this.

We haven’t charged for the inconvenience, but what did happen was a needless waste of time, which only put stress on the single person doing both my job and hers for a brief period of time.

She had enough stress to deal with without it being added to by avoidable errors.

A couple of things to take note of:

1. For reasons of location, we may cease the drop and pick up facility. This will mean there will be no drop off box, but we may consider a collection only if circumstances require it.

Our preference is to move from a consultation/drop off area to being on-line only. Our new street address will not be on our letterhead for example. If you are a first -timer, you get just one chance to meet us face to face, and we require a specific time. You don’t for example, expect to say “I’ll be there sometime in the morning “ to your doctor or accountant, and expect that appointment to hold. We’re busy people, and often plan down to the minute. We ask only you extend this courtesy in return.

Summarising that,your responsibility is to specify a particular time and keep that appointment. We will not answer a knock at the door without this. We are not a shop,we are a factory, just to be clear.

2. If we judge that all of the quilts arrive at different times, and they could arrived together, we will charge for that repeat posting. You can avoid this by ensuring items arrive together in ONE parcel, even using tape to strap two parcels together- this is why we do it, it is cheaper for one thing. Similarly if you send a quilt separate to the order you intend, it is actually a hindrance rather than a help. To avoid this is to say, hold the other 1-2, there is one or however many more to come, we will hold the order until we get all of them.

Once again if we judge you could acted to ensure these could been sent at the same time AND in the same parcel, we will charge for that second posting.

To put it simply, one get one free delivery not two for an order that should have come together.

3. We are now charging what we are entitled to charge for fees on credit cards. To avoid this you should be using bank, or EFT transfer.

A couple of things to take note of:

1. For reasons of location, we may cease the drop and pick up facility. This will mean there will be no drop off box, but we may consider a collection only if circumstances require it.

Our preference is to move from a consultation/drop off area to being on-line only. Our new street address will not be on our letterhead for example. If you are a first -timer, you get just one chance to meet us face to face, and we require a specific time. You don’t for example, expect to say “I’ll be there sometime in the morning “ to your doctor or accountant, and expect that appointment to hold. We’re busy people, and often plan down to the minute. We ask only you extend this courtesy in return.

Summarising that,your responsibility is to specify a particular time and keep that appointment. We will not answer a knock at the door without this. We are not a shop,we are a factory, just to be clear.

2. If we judge that all of the quilts arrive at different times, and they could arrived together, we will charge for that repeat posting. You can avoid this by ensuring items arrive together in ONE parcel, even using tape to strap two parcels together- this is why we do it, it is cheaper for one thing. Similarly if you send a quilt separate to the order you intend, it is actually a hindrance rather than a help. To avoid this is to say, hold the other 1-2, there is one or however many more to come, we will hold the order until we get all of them.

Once again if we judge you could acted to ensure these could been sent at the same time AND in the same parcel, we will charge for that second posting.

To put it simply, one get one free delivery not two for an order that should have come together.

3. We are now charging what we are entitled to charge for fees on credit cards. To avoid this you should be using bank, or EFT transfer.