I am so thrilled for you - what a great day - also to met another CUTE family member, there! WOW! I hope that you received a wealth of knowledge and enjoyed the socialization with others. Thanks for the picture and glad you had a great day.

Sounds like fun to me!

Yes I can second that. The day we attended was called Decorate Your Life with Embroidery, it was organised by Echidna and held at Newcastle.
It wasn't quite what I was expecting, but it was still interesting, though I think I enjoyed the interaction with the other ladies more than the presentations.

Seeing the history of embroidery in Switzerland was interesting, but I think I was expecting to learn tips and tricks on how to digitise better designs.

Tracey's talk on colour was very informative, but I think it may have only confused many of the ladies more, especially those who hadn't come from an artistic background or studied art. The projects were mostly of autumnal colours and (to me) got a bit boring after a while as it became more of a promotion of Zundt designs.

Tracey did have a fantastic colour tool, that is a "must have" for anyone who is colour challenged.
Though I am not colour challenged, I bought one anyway, because I love information and anything that makes the stitching process quicker and easier is worth having. It is far superior to just having a colour wheel and inexpensive compared to the price of some colour wheels.

Lisa's talk was all about Buzz Edit, Buzz Explore and Buzz Tools and if those three modules do all the things she showed us, as easily as she made it out to be, then it would be worth having just for the design splitting function. But I'm sceptical, I fell for a sales pitch once before, on another program, only to be VERY disappointed once I installed and opened it. Have never used it since.

Gary Walker, the owner of Echidna, promoted all of the above and gave a brief presentation of several products Echidna sells, one of which was a Bobbin Tension Measuring device. Naturally I bought one because my Brother 750D has given me nothing but trouble because of the bobbin tension. I actually gave up using the machine because of it.

All in all we did have a lovely day, made some new friends and drooled over some gorgeous projects and designs that were way beyond my Coca-Cola pocket.

What did amaze me with the Zundt designs is, that most of them had very little, or no, underlay, so that the fabric showed through them. hmmmmm?

Hopefully though, we will see some new members joining us here at Cute.

Hugs and love and thanks Chris for posting the pics, Meganne

Thank you, Chris and Meg for telling us about the great day you had today! Thank you for the photos, you look all happy and lovely! Hugs, Lidia

i am very jealous whish they wour come to port macqarie....soozie but i am glad you had a great day.....soozie again

Sounds like fun, luckt for you all
Michelle

Looks like you had fun. Thanks so much for putting up the pictures.Stella

So glad that you had lots of fun. I wish I could have been there too. Hugs to all DeVon

You learned a few things you didn't know and meet new people so this event was a nice change of pace for you.

Chris thanks so much for sharing the lovely pictures with us all. It sure looks like you ladies had a great time. Hugs Yvonne

Hi Chris - thank you for that lovely update on your day out. You have some great photos here to remind you of it all.
Wow!!! to meet another Cutie!!! how lucky is that!!!
So glad your day was a success.

AlmaG.

Well girls you look like you had a great time! thanks for sharing the photos and we get to see another cutie face. Wonderful! Hugs Sally

Thanks for sharing this and glad you had a great day. It is fun to get together with a group with the same interests.

What great photos. Thank you for sharing

Love the pics, glad you had a great time.