Wool Appliqué artistry

[Taken from an article in the Woodmen Edition]

As a child, Kathy Gaul loved the idea of designing and producing her own craftworks, each stitch an expression of her creativity.

Today, as owner and operator of a Colorado Springs-based crafts business, Gaul shares her passion for the medium by offering unique dimensional wool appliqué art patterns to crafts-lovers. Through Meetinghouse Hill Designs LLC, Gaul provides kits with patterns, fabrics and threads, and produces punch-needle patterns, rug-hooking canvases and a sewing accessories line.

Meetinghouse Hill Designs’ wool appliqué art patterns focus on the same types of fabrics and techniques used in 1800s penny rugs. This is the use of felted wool fabrics and embroidery stitches such as blanket and backstitch and French knots.

Gaul singlehandedly creates the design, writes instructions, and publishes and markets her patterns line. Her husband, Jerry, manages the business and graphic-design tasks.

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