Lyn is our digitizer, sewer, artist, writer.
She does most of the digitizing, using Wilcom software.
She test-sews everything before it goes up on the site.
She writes the instructions.
She loves to read, listen to music and play golf.
She is an occasional cook.
Christine is our artist and designer extraordinaire.
She is a very talented woman – is successful at anything she puts her mind to.
She is devoted to her husband, Neil and to her Tibetan Mastiff dogs – Temujin and Miwa.
She has a wicked sense of humour.
(The background image is taken from her back door, looking over the Border Ranges, during a thunder storm)
Graeme is our go-to guy.
He sorts out practical issues that need fixing.
Looks after all the mechanical stuff.
He runs our Trunk Shows. He just loved meeting up with so many of our loyal customers in his trip to the States.
He has a great sense of humour and is an awesome cook!
Lyn’s first art quilt – Tabula Rasa
This quilt started with a plain white piece of fabric. It was inspired by an incident that upset me.
I dyed the fabric first, using Procion dyes; then added Shiva Paintsticks, screen printing, foiling, painted web.
The three circles represent the influences that I see affecting us in our lives – Family first, then Friends.
These circles are applique, painted and then machine embroidered.
The third circle is Depression – Is there any way out? I think we suffer from depression when the other two influences in our lives are out of balance.
There is a screen-printed line from Simon and Garfunkel that is difficult to see –
Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again
I then quilted it with overlapping and intersecting cirlces.
I like the result – am very happy with this quilt. Making it helped me deal with the problem.
Lord of the Forest
Christine has made two stunning art quilts, using the Challenge fabric provided by Queensland Quilters.
Shambhala
The floral fabric in these two amazing quilts is the challenge fabric. Christine used applique, tranpunto, some hand embroidery and rhinestones as embellishment. She added details with fabric paint, and quilted them, free motion, of course.
They are each 50cm x 70cm