1997 I purchased a Singer Embroidery Unlimited; Funny thing for me to be buying. I've never sewed or had any interest in doing so! I enjoyed it so much that a year later I purchased an XL-1000 the following year. About 5 years later, because I enjoy embroidering on heavy material, towels, blankets, I purchased the Baby Lock Professional.
Job's Daughters is what started this interest. We make quilts for each of the "Honored Queens" each term. You can see Frankie’s quilt at http://www.keppy.net/embroidery. I usually do heat transfers, which is part of Frankie’s quilt. I'm OK with a computer, but never owned a sewing machine before the EU. When Frankie was "Honored Queen" I had to make Cherub's and a quilt, embroidered names on “t” shirts and bunches of other stuff. So I enrolled in a sewing class at the local high school. Two weeks later I bought an actual sewing machine (inexpensive one at Costco's) and a month later on to these embroidery machines.
My daughter's mascot is the Turtle and I've been using one special turtle as an iron on for all the quilt squares representing her in each of the past quilts. I looked all over the internet for Turtles to embroider, but no luck.
When I do something, I get into it. I've been reading all the web sites and books I can get my hands on. So now that I'm and experienced embroiderer, with two whole week behind me, I started digitized my own turtles! I scanned a needle point my mom did for Frankie when she was born, and I digitized that.
Below are the two turtles I scanned and digitized. I've actually embroidered them onto shirts and they look pretty cute (if I do say so myself). They are NOT perfect by any means... but I've been getting lots of complements on them from people that don't even know I did them myself! Just click on either to download the zip file. If you need to convert the format, you can use Buzz Tools.
These are pictures copied from the stitch out section of the PSW software, cropped and pasted. You can see the actual sewn out versions on Frankie’s quilt. They look just like the ones I've stitched out on various shirts and quilt squares (the turtles lots more than the others). The multi colored turtle is the one I scanned from a needle point my mom did for my daughter. The other was a clip art I used to use on iron-ons. Now that I've digitized it, I stitch it a lot, changing the colors for the colors I think the people they are for, would like best
