Kathy at Coastal Crafters Carnival

Kathy at the KoolKat stand in Toogoom Hall

Kathy taking visitors on her quilting journey at Toogoom

Kathy was one of the guest speakers at the Coastal Crafters Carnival at Toogoom, Hervey Bay, Queensland yesterday.  Toogoom is 4.5 hours from Toowoomba - we drove up to Howard the afternoon before, stayed at the local caravan park, and enjoyed a fish and chips meal at the Grand Hotel that evening. More than 300 attended with the proceeds benefiting Project Linus, a charity that provides quilts for child cancer victims in hospitals.  It was a great day and Kathy came back with a hand-made teddy bear and a frog and Geoff added to his condiments collecton with a locally-made Worcestershire sauce and a chilli sauce.   This was the second biannual holding of the carnival and it looks to have become firmly established in the regional quilting calendar.