I thought that I would share with you the wonderful day I had recently when I got to meet Karen McTavish and view her trunk show! She is such a fun person, like someone I would have hung out with in high school! Her story is awesome and quite unique, at least in how she was introduced to long arm quilting...which in a nutshell was that her mom bought her a long arm, and wanted her to move closer to home to raise her family. Her mom told her she could make a living doing LA quilting, and Karen did, but only after a long learning curve and her own inventivness! And now...the rest is history. So here are some pictures. I asked her if I could post them, and she gave me permission.
Quilt she gave as a gift and was sent back to have the border taken off....she kept it....LOL
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Karen telling about the phone call from her mother....the one that launched her career
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explaining how she does machine trapunto
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one of her beautiful quilts, my favorite
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colored trapunto
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and of course..a close up of some" McTavishing"
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