QT Gold Coast – Hotel Review

QT Gold Coast is one of those new age quirky hotels that gets the media buzzing and people talking. So when we were invited to take a look around we were excited and quite open minded.

The first thing that grabs you is the ambiance or casual vintage modern chic. The staff’s uniforms are amazing and help set the scene of a 50’s beach side hotel. The vintage van out the front with the surfboard on top and the Vespa Scooter (available for hire) are equally cool and fun for some photos.

QT3 The free old fashioned lemonade in old fashioned soda bottles with old fashioned paper straws are a hotel foyer delight which I have never come across before. If lemonade is a little too tarty for you then sip on the free iced tea instead.

The rooms are modern with bold colors. We stayed in a King suite which came with a mini kitchen, wonderful view and gigantic bath. (Standard room shown)

We basically stayed on the premises for 24 hours, swimming in the pool, partying in the nightclub Stingray and then finally eating breakfast in the Bazaar restaurant. There is a day spa and nail bar on site also which means you never have to leave and it’s walking distance to the beach should you hear the waves calling your name.

Can you judge a hotel by it’s breakfast? (We usually do). It was great, full of variety with freshly made options as well as fresh smoothies in those old fashioned Soda bottles. (I have a thing for those bottles now). My only complaint was that the coffee was not hot enough and maybe freshly made capuchino at my table would have been the answer to a slight hangover.

A few areas needed a little revamp such as the foyer toilets and the poolside toilets as they just didn’t fit into the theme and were more expressive of the original hotel.

The staff were very accommodating to us (We held 2 social gatherings and required reserved seating) Overall we loved it and would return.

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A while back I made a little rainbow cross stitch pattern and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it, so I turned it into a patch. My idea was that it could be used on a jacket or backpack, or you could add a pin to the back and wear it temporarily on a shirt or elsewhere.

But what if you want to make your design more permanent? Is it possible to turn a piece of cross stitch into an iron-on design?

It turns out yes, it is, and Sirious Stitches has done it so I didn’t have to try to figure it out on my own.

The way they did it was by using HeatnBond, an iron-on adhesive that attaches fabrics without sewing. There was still sewing involved to finish the edges of the cross stitch fabric and make it look like a purchased patch. The post shows how to do this by hand or with your sewing machine. (I just did blanket stitch edging on mine, which doesn’t look like a “real” patch but is also a lot faster.)

Once you have the patch prepared it’s a pretty easy matter of using the fusible adhesive to the back of the patch so you can then iron it onto whatever jacket, pair of jeans, bag or whatever else you might want to add it to.

I guess I’m a little paranoid about the washability of cross stitch projects, though you could hand wash anything with an iron-on cross stitch patch as you might need to with a purchased iron-on patch, anyway. But this does look really cool and is a great option if you know you want to permanently add a cross stitch patch to a garment of bag.

Get the full tutorial over at Sirious Stitches. Would you add an iron-on cross stitch patch to something? I’d love to hear what you would use this technique for!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]

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