Material Obsession . . . meet the amazeballs Kathy Doughty! #materialobsession

[Music] hey guys the Tibet I'm at a workshop called material obsession and I heard about this ball shop from Ann Marie who I will be meeting for dinner later tonight I have no idea if they are going to allow me to film inside but I will ask them because I am like a sweaty mess right we're just trying to get here you have no idea so I'm gonna go inside and hopefully I get to film in just a minute hey guys okay so I'm back and I have been granted permission to come in so I'm gonna show you around material obsession and let everyone introduce themselves hello yeah boo Kathy dowdy welcome to the vet who we just met oh and we're gonna rhyme every single thing we say the whole time we really should we should at least go for that anytime you hear us rhyming take a drink yay well we are at material obsession we're just outside of the city of Sydney and when you walk in all the times people come in making just as the whole shop but this is sort of where we display our colorful prints and this is the kind of thing that as a designer are quite well known it's working with lots of polychromatic prints so you know we've got lots of cave passing it probably a hoarder some Aboriginal prints lots of different things and you might be able to tell me look at this wall do what we really like to do is create a great mix of different fabrics so that we can do cooks like this one behind a bet this quilt which is called um windmills just use this one little shake it makes a square but it's a great example of a quilt where you can throw lots of different fabrics together and make a really dynamic cohesive project so we try to look for projects like that and they might this is the this is an American Girl dolls that we found at market on the patterns called Medusa but again it's using lots of different kinds of fabrics and a simple structure it's beautiful yeah that's really fun um I like to refer to Wendy Williams is my secret weapon she he's a designer that uses lots of wool felt so this is her travel threads project which was designed with lots of little six inch blocks featuring things from her memory and her experiences either at the by the sea or having a popular flower pops but people really like this either for one little kit or to do the whole piece and it's quite fun for kids as well in almost all the projects that we do whether it's stitching applique or quilting we like to use the wonderful eleganza threads this is similar to say for example maybe it any ne parlez but it's got a really nice short turn and it's a very high quality so this is a beautiful project that has actually introduced me to doing stitcher tees because I never would have I actually have never seen this this thread before I have not not but that was the first thing I noticed when I walked in though it's beautiful well the colors are designed by sue Fargo and introduced by wonderful and they do lots of very nice quality threads they also have a solid section and then they also do the wool threads to match the the wool felt so um now I'm interested in anything that expands creativity and makes you think of what would I do with that so this year I got some fabrics from India some of these are pre quilted some of them are patchwork pieces I've also got lots of interesting geometric style prints I quite like the idea of using these as maybe backgrounds or small pieces but then we really sort of dive into your art galleries your Alexander Henry um really vivid stripes really vivid strike that's nice yeah so this is sort of a burgeoning little home Dec corner and we also just got this beautiful thing in which I think would be fantastic for cushions on my brown leather sofa or Evan lays with some stitching done in the rose yeah so I guess that would be the theme for material obsession to me that we like to look at something and think what could we do with it might for example yeah did you these are you don't use they're quite um traditional looking most people do them with red I'm gonna come a little closer closer anxious problem focusing no it's just you can't see it if you know that's too far away it looks better so see this these are the little pre-printed panels that come from Japan and then you can just pick whatever yeah so I did you lie did these up with the eleganza and because it's very gated it runs the colors through it was just a different way of looking at that so that's been a really fun thing this is another little gets the mixed kind of a pad and this is by Natalie bonds from I on the reef patterns loving everything you're doing here yeah I love everything we do here too that's what makes it so fun oh we've got a lot of Laura hiney using the great big yeah I love Florence and then walking down the hall doubt I was telling it that but this building is a 200 year old sandstones Pateros so it's got lots of history and we believe we have a ghost as well nice awesome pops up every once awhile I had a friend who had a ghost like years ago we used to have fun with that ghost he would do things for us like make coffee and it was crazy right maybe just need to be trained to the wit this is stargazing a pattern by lynn wilson and she's used a lot of free spirit fabrics in strips and then fact it was shot cotton oh this is something that we do a lot here which is using the shot cotton and the and the vibrant colors to sort of create a more sophisticated palate right very nice now that's tradition with the twist isn't it yeah that's that is those are giant yo yo yo you yeah done just a basic solid prints this one's designed by Blue Mountain Daisy and um she actually this is our version of it we just finished last week but she actually won the modern quilt show in Australia two years ago with this very nice with that pattern it's very nice so like all good quilt shops this is a paper paper paste project that it's just sort of a sample to show you how to use the paper is very nice but again mixing more contemporary sort of plaids and spots as backgrounds instead of just plain and also using some so it goes like let's face that we all have reproduction fabrics at our stashes and now our eye is more caught by the bright colors that we're seeing right more contemporary and modern style fabrics so learning how to mix those two things makes our stash really valuable yeah really usable it looks great my other got ahead of you a very favorite thing at the moment is a black and white these are Japanese linens but you can see I've got spots and stripes and checks in all different sizes and we're using this as a background with bright colors a lot now too and it's really beautiful even so much is this really big one yes yes I agree with you like anything you can do with the color this kind of fabric totally like makes it pop so it's yeah it's been great it it's a it's a great new evolution a little to know yeah the filters muscly and hopefully it'll it'll stay you know for a while the trains are always changing so yeah this is I like to say I'm not sure they check I expect them to change a lot faster than they do you know it's kind of received that is Anna in my position as a shop owner I'm always looking to see what's coming next yeah so that's what I've been working with this for a while hoping that it would take off at now like a lot of people in our classes are starting to do it so I think it's really good but um if I was to make a prediction about what I think is good it's gonna happen next is that we've now pushed a reproduction is almost entirely out of the picture so I think it'll be on the rise it's gonna come so don't throw away your bunch of fabrics you're gonna need them yeah no I love them I don't know I I find that as the quilting community sort of gets younger it's changing faster I don't know I just kind of I feel that way maybe I'm maybe I'm wrong no I I think you're right they're right when we've just my business is 16 years old and when we first opened the door we had bright colorful fabrics and people would walk in and say oh no honey we'll never last nor ever want to use these fabrics and fortunately I didn't pay any attention to that and I think now we're saying the same thing about reproduction not seeing it the distributors aren't selling it designers aren't making it it's disappearing and what we can't have we want right short-hair long-hair yeah bottom straight pants I mean we just keep going back cuz right now I do think the geometrics that you were talking about I think that those are kind of coming in the forefront right now honestly I'm not sure how I feel about that because I'm not really a geometric girl but I'm trying to open my mind a little bit more well having an open mind and looking at it and thinking what can I do with it that makes it unique is the story and that is important with reproduction if they bring back the same thing exactly the way that it was might not take off but if we look at it saying how can we work this in with what's existing now right I mean I think you'll find that if you do a workshop with Kay facet he's mixing reproduction in with his fabrics right you know because he has to be relevant as well yeah it's about color and balance and movement and all these are the different things so to me that's what makes me a quilter and I know I'll never stop because there's always a different way to use the same thing like music right right okay so this is sort of our basics room you know we'd sent Ted to put our black and whites and our more solid background prints and we have some pretty little pest deli things as well I love how every nook and cranny is full every your dog home you're the only place we could swing a cat I do I do love that expression swing a cat but I I can't tell you oh in the last 16 years how many times I've dreamt that I've walked into the shop and found a big empty room and thought oh my God why don't we use this if you like the idea that wool felt this is a designer that Wendy Williams teaches ten classes a month here and they're all full to bursting she's a magnificent teacher and a beautiful designer so she does all these different quilts and if you stroll through the internet you'll probably see like pieces of my heart or around the garden pattern or any one of these things because people really love them I call it my secret weapon because she just never stops coming up with me ideas I do like that pieces of my heart that's beautiful it's super fun it's a super fun pull to make you just don't even know like the one with the fishes I love the fishes I'm loving good yeah you're right you're beautiful and I like the color so I love this one making arrangements with the vases so you know you can see it's playing with the high brights and then the is the black-and-white shot right right I sneak peek this is up my season stem quilt that I made from my next collection for free spirit so I I like to look at my environment and pull elements from the environment when I'm designing fabric so we have a look grandiflora tree in our backyard and these are just piles of sticks from the ground and they fallen is a little you have an oak tree so I just picked up the shape of the oak leaf on my driveway and called that one fallen but I it's also a store in this woven I love this woven print here which gives you a really interesting it's got depth in it and yeah and this is the one that everybody is I can't market everybody's afraid of woven Oh what will we do with that well I keep using it and it's great when you cut it in sashing strips it's great as a background I put little yo-yos on it it's just I'm thinking it's gonna be the best one in the whole collection right but that's always I mean if I use something if I find some people can't use something and I use it that everybody wants it and it doesn't exist so it's beautiful and this is also quilted with the eleganza oh okay so I tend to use three or four different colors in this one I did sort of a random thing I picked up I think you can see anything that's my choice I would hand quit everything that we did great I just love the texture ya know the looseness of the stitches intentional too because I find that if you over quilt it it's not as comfortable so this would be really good on the sofa you'd still want to color with right right you're right it's true so yeah we got lots of things we got the by and patterns and things so we're trying to people love the by any pattern so they're yes right yes absolutely I know they're fantastic and easy to make her zippers are really good the instructions are really easy all the materials are it's one-stop shopping for she might get mad at me right now though because I I was saying well can we get them on PDF like would you ever consider doing EDF spit so much paper and I don't want paper I want fabric it's a constant question but yeah I know I know the one I was I took this home to make on the weekend but I forgot yoga mat very nice I love that idea you know what her patterns I mean really she deserves all the accolades she gets because her patterns are great well and as a shop owner I really like the fact that I can get all the doodads with bright bright place all I want this pattern in my rep shows me all the different things and then I have all the different things here and so it's you don't have to search around and go to two or three different places exactly a very turtle corner there that's my wall of fun I really like working with shapes triangles wedges all different kinds of things so I think if you've got a shape you can cut accurately and so accurately and that makes a lot of difference and people love notions I mean as much as we love fabric we also love having new notions like just knew something they're great if you use them that's true like you have a lot of rulers in her collected dust Rafi but I haven't whenever I finally get to but I do tend to use them and I like to find one and then really explore like I do I'm doing um this might be interesting to people I'm doing a workshop at quilting by the lake called taking shapes and we take the 60-degree shape and in the workshop I show you how all the pieces go together and then encourage you to do your own designs and to design your own quilts within the structure of the workshop and I've taught it a few times at empty spools and it's sisters in Oregon and people really enjoy that so if you haven't done that kind of thing and you're interested look at quilting by the lake it's in upstate New York awesome that actually sounds I'm trying to think you should it sounds familiar like I like I think I've heard of that shop before well quarter by the lake is a it's a workshop a week of classes Monet oughtta at a college so you stay in the college dorms and do classes in the classrooms and eat in the cafeteria but every night they have different lectures and one night we go to the schweinfurt art gallery museum to see some sort of a quilting exhibition so if you'd like to just dive into a week of just quilting it's a fantastic experience I would love to dive into him welcome to my class doing organic applique which is my new book taking shapes awesome okay yeah I'm so excited that I came here you're so personable I love it not everyone is like that I'm telling you you got something there I'm in it because I love it and I'm you know it's like I'm an Australian now because I'm quilting and because I met people and I instantly had something to talk to them about and I never I'll never stop appreciating that that's sharing everything that we know that's good yes it is good great well it was really lovely meeting you uh and I think I'm gonna take everyone down into the classroom if that's okay with you yeah and just kind of show more film going down the stairs though because well I'm a hundred years old and very narrow I know that would be just like me I would go tumbling okay so we'll check back with you guys and just say okay it's been 16 full elements quite what my last book mixing quilt elements so it's got a little bit of liberated pieces and while it applique and if you want you can do it full to to go really yeah that's a really fun workshop because everybody sort of create their own space in the woods they do books or movies or friends or children and it's a very fun storytelling workshop this is really really pretty quilt Thanks and it's got like some applique in there that's for it that's really good for using this stuff onto your sewing table oh you know what your little smile your scratches this is another quilt from Tom mixing pool elements so this is one that I teach a lot because it's really about using big scale prints for that night and again this is using that idea of more subtle shadowy colors in the background allowing your bright fabrics to be the hero so you actually can see the line in your quilts that's also printed with pearlite this one's really lovely the handle I just touched it guys it's not it's lovely I would totally sleep with it up there is designed by Irene Blanc and this is something that we do a lot here that we did that is a block of the month and we used a lot of donation fabrics in there where Irene designs it using lots of really pretty colors but her designs are so beautiful that we love to take them and then sort of material obsession eyes them and make them right so we've done that a couple of times it's doing really popular I really love that border and did you see the quilt that's on the wall that helen is doing um yes that was that one is lovely do we got to show you guys everything this side program we used to run a long time ago called um block party and so we would just teach a skill every month and talk about how you create line using warming cool colors or how you you know all different kinds of things using contemporary fabrics miniaturize my fractured quilt actually I kind of want to do that agenda that was in the morning Michele log-cabin ruler so as you can see some are skinny well you know summer god yeah they're there there's a lot of log cabin going on right now on Instagram because they'll have a lot of people who are involved with don't get involved with a swap and then everyone gets interested in it you know I never noticed before but that sort of obstruction log cabin and then this one down here a DJ's a wonky well yeah banky yeah I look I just there's nothing I've seen in here yet that I don't like but I'm a bright / a bright color girl too so I love that you know I always say I'm gonna do something with with quiet colors that I never do [Music] it's really beautiful okay so now well so that's Liberty fields which is the quilt that I made think about oh maybe 10 years ago and Helena who we'd like to refer to when she's folding a block of the month kids as Cinderella she's down in the dungeon but she she's remaking it using on a Maria Horner's conservatory collection and Jen King wells looking forward I think it's just coming up beautifully really it really makes a high strong colors with softer colors I just wish I had enough time to make my huge quota like that much oh it's beautiful well I think in my head it's not doable and that's why I get I get sidetracked yes I plan my work for the week on a Saturday so that when I come home tired on a Monday I can pick it up and do it right so but my head is clear I plan what I'm gonna do and when my mind is money I just do what I planned and that seems to get me through a lot on this little stack here these are sneaking using books from London book which is coming out this month this is my overgrow quilt which is also done in the my seeds and stems question yeah Wow so organic because you can put the applique anywhere you want you don't have to follow a very specific placement and then he wanted to change the flowers or use something else you can put that in there but I discuss all the different ways of creating line in your quilt and all the techniques for fussy cutting and doing like these sort of funky organics tells it is quite gorgeous status it's beautiful I love this one I love people who have vision like they were exactly the same then we hung them long wallet everybody said oh no they're not the same awesome guys you know it's beautiful it's always nice to have someone who comes in and sees everything with a fresh new eye because we're so liking so deeply that's true boiled in it that we just see it as what we are you know we forget that it's different yeah that's another girl did this work tomorrow laughing so that again was fusing let's using raw edge of the Japanese world stitching for the flowers and then using just some other scraps and pieces that I had in my studio just threw them all together and I think that's quite it's very unstructured and it's assembly but it still has a thread to holding it all together well the way you put it together it looks 3d I mean it looks like the flowers are coming out at you from back here it does and then you know but it's not to me they they just look sort of 3d I like that that's really class you can hear everybody talking and chatting and laughing all the way upstairs alright well we'll go ahead and close on this lovely clothes over here that Cinderella's working on [Laughter]

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Length: 24min 1sec (1441 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 17 2019