Our 2025 Holiday Bag Sale

Studio Kat Designs

Most of you know that once a year we throw open our closets & offer you some fantastic deals on sample bags that will no longer be traveling with us to road shows. And this year, there’s 67 bags available for purchase! They’re in pristine condition & each is a ONE-OF-A-KIND StudioKat Designs original made…

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Our 2025 Advent Calendar Sale!

Our 2025 Advent Calendar Sale starts TODAY! And no, we’re not selling calendars! This sale will work just like an Advent Calendar does! It’s fun, it’s easy and its a great way to stock up for those projects you might be planning to take on during those cold, dark upcoming Winter months! Starting Dec 1st…

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A Great, Big, NEW Fabric Drop

So… we had a BLAST shopping for fabrics for our next new bag design, and we’ve pretty much used all of these beauties in the course of developing this pattern (if not on the design that came b4 this), the Cignet Phone Pal). So let me go ahead & show you exactly how we’ve used…

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Int. Quilt Festival: Our Black Friday!

Display rack with colorful backpacks and hanging fabric samples in a store.

So even though Int. Quilt Market was a serious disappointment for us, & pretty much everyone else, we never were in doubt about how Int. Quilt Festival would go… because as I’ve told SO many people, Quilt Festival is our “Black Friday”, and this year was no exception, thank goodness! Of course our zipper display…

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PPC34: Dancin’ in the Moonlight

Colorful embroidered shoulder bag with floral patterns on black fabric.

So I really LOVED working with this cool fabric, which was actually one of those  panel prints, with a border on each side of the 45″ width. And the cool thing about working with such a fabric is that it can be used for the exterior AND the contrast, all with perfect color matching! (I’ll…

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Int. Quilt Festival’25: my Favorite Quilts

Surreal clock face entwined with a tree and birds in a vibrant landscape.

So… the competition among the quilt entries at the International Quilt Festival really doesn’t get any tougher! To even have a quilt accepted to be shown at this prestigious show is quite a feat! But having said that, my strolling among the quilts was severely hampered this show by the fact that I did a…

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Int. Quilt Market ’25: My Favorite Booths

A cozy indoor market with various handmade crafts and decorations.

Years ago, I used to love to walk up & down all the rows of boothes, just loving the visual beauty of the floor. But ever since Covid, the large booth exhibits at Quilt Market have been greatly diminished! Not only were the displays smaller, but they were also much more basic & minimalistic. But…

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the November’25 Eye Candy Showcase

Colorful eye candy bags displayed in a creative showcase event.

So here we go… it’s time for another “Eye Candy Showcase”, this one for October’25! And WOW! What a nice variety of our bag designs are represented in this month’s showcase! So… if you’re ready for some eye-popping fun… Let’s get to it!         So… the 1st bag in this month’s Showcase…

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Seen at Show: International Quilt Festival ’25

Collage of joyful moments at Studio Kat's booth, Int. Quilt Festival '25.

So… even though I’ve been in business for 20+ years, I STILL get a big kick out of seeing our customers carrying bags they’ve made from our patterns! And what better place to “spy” these customers than at a retail trade show, right? And you know what? we spied EIGHTEEN of our bags “walking the…

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Int. Quilt Market ’25: the Recap

A vendor booth displaying colorful jewelry and accessories at a convention.

It’s doesn’t seem possible, but it was eighteen years ago when we first ventured to Houston, TX for our very first Fall Quilt Market. The way I figure it, we’ve spent close to 8 months of our lives living in downtown Houston, & by now we may well know more about the downtown Houston area…

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