Machine embroidered quilt

Gee - this is better! More posts AND photos from me.....

Found these pictures that I had taken of a customer quilt that I finished in early July. This lady had made this heavily machine embroidered quilt from patterns purchased. She had lots of problems and ended up redigitising some of them and changing others to make them work. There was a little puckering around some of the embroideries so we decided that McTavishing would be the way to go to pull in some of the excess and hide any creases caused by the heavy embroidery that obviously did not have enough tension or stabilisation when being executed. She had put in so much work and thought into this that I wanted her to be really proud of it!

Anyway...here goes....hope you like it! The main thing was that she was thrilled with it. The quilting didn't overtake the embroidery, but just simply finished it off.

Until I find some more quilting photos....enjoy this lot!

cheers

Mixing work and play

On my last trip to setup a new Intelliquilter on a machine in Qld - I decided it was time to bring the family as well & take a break to spend some time with my family. In 10 days we managed to visit Australia Zoo (Steve Irwin's zoo) and 4 theme parks!! Movieworld, Dreamworld, White Water World and Seaworld ughhh....exhaustion!

Here are some photos of the 'family' at the zoo and on rides vbg. They had a wonderful time, even if we were on the Gold Coast, Qld on the coldest day in 7 years! All I was looking forward to was the warmer weather that Queensland always promises compared to South Australia, where I've been freezing for months....

We did Australia Zoo, Dreamworld & Movieworld when the weather was quite nice. Later in the week we had to abandon one day due to the rain & freezing wind....shopping was the option LOL!





Just before we left, I did manage to get a few quilts done. Only one photo though mmmm must get better at taking photos won't I?





This quilt is a lap quilt made by a guild member, quilted by me freehand and will be raffled for our Regional Round Up day where we invite all the other guilds in the state to visit for a huge show'n'tell, guest speaker and 3 shops present in the country. Always a fantastic day with goodie bags and fun galore....

Hopefully this quilt will raise some $$ to help pay for the day. They usually get up to 300 quilters from around the state to this event every two years!

cheers until next time (see I've posted again yeahh!!! Not MONTHS after the last one.)

Tracey

Long time, no see or hear.....sorry

Hi all
Yes I've finally come back to my blog. Has taken me a bit to remember my login, but I've finally got it and can post again.....

I do apologise for those that keep checking on me! I'm here, but have been very busy as usual. I will try to post a little more often to keep all my friends up to date on what is happening here on the farm and in the studio.

To catch up a little with the family.....
My eldest, Emma, did choose to leave home and attend an International High School in Adelaide (2 hrs away from home by bus). She is living with a lovely christian family along with a Japanese and Chinese student. They have 2 daughters of their own that also attend the same school. She only has to walk out their back door & across the school oval to get to class each day! I think it was meant to be in the end..... the grandfather of this couple is a Uniting Church minister and actually married our current local Principal & her DH years ago. They also babysat their kids as they were growing up. THEN our local deputy principle was also from the same area and Emma's host parents were his supervisor at Youth Group. THEN another teacher at our local Christian school used to live with her host dad before they were both married!! All this was discovered as we got to know her host family before christmas last year.....

Emma has now had 6 mths at her new, much larger city school. Academically she is doing great with merit awards for her results for the first 2 terms. This week she phoned to tell me she got a credit in a Science competition that they encouraged her to enter. This means she is in the top 18% of all Yr 10 students in South Australia & Northern Territory. Not bad we think.....

We have struggled all weekend to sift through lots of information to try & choose her Yr 11 subjects for next year. To keep her options open for university etc when she is still struggling to even know what path she wants to take. Seems like they are telling her that she needs to do the top maths & physics though as she is coping with these extremely well.

Onto #2 son who turns 13 tomorrow! He is just cruising with study & mates and loves his motorbike. Would love a new one, but we just keep working on his Dad's 30 yr old Yamaha 175DT with new parts etc to keep it going all the time. He loves coming home most afternoons from school & going for a ride. He is also learning lots about maintenance, motors etc and can do a lot of the mechanical work himself now - so good life experiences.

#3 will be 10 next month & is still the most stubborn girly girl of the lot! Loves playing netball, being with friends and adores being with her big brother & they rarely fight thank goodness...

Quilting wise, I'm struggling to do much for myself and only just keep up with a few customer quilts. Have been very busy teaching, selling quilting machines etc which takes up all my time. Have not been home much this year due to all this, but it is all good!!

OK - this is probably more than enough to bore you all....will try to write more often in the future.
cheers
Tracey