Hi Everyone,
It's a new year and already we are well on our way to Easter. Time really does fly, especially when we have lots of fun projects that we want to work on.
I wish to inform everyone that we now have a change in our PO Box number. We used to have our box in the city but when it came up for renewal we decided to get one close to home. So our new PO address is Robian Applique Designs,
PO Box 7545, Geelong West, Victoria, 3218 Australia.
I went off up to Bendigo early yesterday morning, to see my nephew play soccer and what a lovely little surprise, of the quilting variety, I had. Tom (nephew) didn't have his first game til after lunch so we had some free time. AND, what else does a quilter do when she/he has free time away from home, but go to the quilt fabric shops, of course.
I found a shop in Bendigo called Honeysuckle Stained Glass and Patchwork which, as an appliquer, had me salivating. Nicky stocks among the best, most beautiful and somewhat prolific range of tone on tone (among other things) fabrics that I have come across in this state. Her fabrics are to dye for (sorry) and she also stocks a full range of Fossil Fern Fabric. WOW - I was over the moon and will be telling everyone about it and returning to that shop again. If you love applique, as I do, you will be in applique paradise in this shop.
There are several other quilting stores in the beautiful city of Bendigo, also, so it is well worth a drive if you don't live in the area.
Tom played brilliantly in his two soccer games and kicked most of the team goals. They won their first match and had a draw in the second. I would have loved to have been there again today to see his other games but we were unable to find accommodation. But there will always be another time. I hope you have good matches again today, Tom. Congratulations on your fabulous playing.
I hope everyone rushed out and got their copy of Homespun magazine in January which had my pattern "Wattle Day" and profile in it. Also, I hope you all get Australian Patchwork and Quilting for February as some of my quilts were in that also, from when we had our Geelong Quilting Exhibition.
Til next time - happy quilting
Robyn
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Thank goodness for Quilting
Hi Everyone,
It seems like such a long time since I have sat here at the computer and done my blog and Newsletter.
I have been away for quite a while up in Northern New South Wales with my sister Chris. I was with her when she passed away from this world into the next, in November, aged only 58 years. She died from lung cancer and it is just the most terrible way to die.
I feel that my world will never be the same without her in it and my heart goes out to Shane and Tim; Chris’s husband and 17 year old son. Thank you to my wonderful friends and family everywhere who have given me the most heartfelt support.
But life goes on. The sun will surely rise tomorrow and we left to grieve must, in some way, take care of ourselves and nurture each other when and where we can, so that we can survive this.
Thank goodness for quilting. I had never entered any of my quilts in an exhibition before this November. We had our biennial 3 day quilt show in Geelong in November. It is an exhibition of work of the Geelong Patchwork and Quilters Guild members. I put 3 quilts in and a small quilt in the challenge.
I won equal 3rd place in the challenge, Best of Show, Viewers Choice 1st and Viewers Choice 2nd. I am still in shock about this.
It just demonstrates how, during life, we can experience the most exhilarating highs and the most soul crunching lows in a very short space of time. I find it difficult to explain how one can feel shattered and heart broken whilst on cloud 9. But that is surely how I have felt for a while.
I have a small wall hanging pattern and profile in the January edition of Homespun magazine which has been something to look forward to. I have just completed another quilt to go into another fabulous Australian quilting magazine next year. But I will tell you more about that when it happens. It really is very exciting.
I hope you are all enjoying your quilting and/or other hobbies. I hope, too, that your Christmas is full of good news, good health, good friends and family. I wish you all the very best for the New year and, God willing, I will be back here in 2010.
Happy quilting,
Robyn
It seems like such a long time since I have sat here at the computer and done my blog and Newsletter.
I have been away for quite a while up in Northern New South Wales with my sister Chris. I was with her when she passed away from this world into the next, in November, aged only 58 years. She died from lung cancer and it is just the most terrible way to die.
I feel that my world will never be the same without her in it and my heart goes out to Shane and Tim; Chris’s husband and 17 year old son. Thank you to my wonderful friends and family everywhere who have given me the most heartfelt support.
But life goes on. The sun will surely rise tomorrow and we left to grieve must, in some way, take care of ourselves and nurture each other when and where we can, so that we can survive this.
Thank goodness for quilting. I had never entered any of my quilts in an exhibition before this November. We had our biennial 3 day quilt show in Geelong in November. It is an exhibition of work of the Geelong Patchwork and Quilters Guild members. I put 3 quilts in and a small quilt in the challenge.
I won equal 3rd place in the challenge, Best of Show, Viewers Choice 1st and Viewers Choice 2nd. I am still in shock about this.
It just demonstrates how, during life, we can experience the most exhilarating highs and the most soul crunching lows in a very short space of time. I find it difficult to explain how one can feel shattered and heart broken whilst on cloud 9. But that is surely how I have felt for a while.
I have a small wall hanging pattern and profile in the January edition of Homespun magazine which has been something to look forward to. I have just completed another quilt to go into another fabulous Australian quilting magazine next year. But I will tell you more about that when it happens. It really is very exciting.
I hope you are all enjoying your quilting and/or other hobbies. I hope, too, that your Christmas is full of good news, good health, good friends and family. I wish you all the very best for the New year and, God willing, I will be back here in 2010.
Happy quilting,
Robyn
Thursday, October 22, 2009
My Sister, Chris
I have been away from my blog and my website for a couple of weeks and going through a bit of a tough time this year.
My sister Chris, second of we 5 siblings and next in age to me, 15 months younger, at age 58, has lung cancer. I am shattered - one can only begin to imagne how it must be for her.
She lives in New South Wales near Maitland which is a long way from me. It is a one hour drive to the airport, a flight of an hour and a half and a drive of about half an hour to reach her.
She found out she had lung cancer in November last year and up until about 2 months ago wasn't doing too badly.
She contracted pneumonia in September and almost died; but she has rallied and is still in hospital. At that stage she wanted us all to be with her. I am the eldest, then Chris, another sister, a brother and another sister and our Mum. Our Dad died of lung and brain cancer in 1982.
Chrissy faces a battle and we all want to be there with her. But, like everyone, we have commitments of one sort or another and things we need to do, and we all live hours from each other. So I had to leave her last weekend and come home to do things. I am so torn because I want to be with her but need to be here too.
I will probably go back up to be with her and will be neglectful of my web site and blog posts. My beloved brother also had a partial removal of his prostate and a kidney removed with cancer earlier this year. As well, a nephew has had testicular cancer. So it has been a big year for this dreadful illness in our family.
I wanted to let people know so that there is some explanation for neglect of web things.
I hope you are all quilting to your hearts content and loving every (well, most anyway - maybe not the unpicking) minute of it.
Til next time,
Robyn
My sister Chris, second of we 5 siblings and next in age to me, 15 months younger, at age 58, has lung cancer. I am shattered - one can only begin to imagne how it must be for her.
She lives in New South Wales near Maitland which is a long way from me. It is a one hour drive to the airport, a flight of an hour and a half and a drive of about half an hour to reach her.
She found out she had lung cancer in November last year and up until about 2 months ago wasn't doing too badly.
She contracted pneumonia in September and almost died; but she has rallied and is still in hospital. At that stage she wanted us all to be with her. I am the eldest, then Chris, another sister, a brother and another sister and our Mum. Our Dad died of lung and brain cancer in 1982.
Chrissy faces a battle and we all want to be there with her. But, like everyone, we have commitments of one sort or another and things we need to do, and we all live hours from each other. So I had to leave her last weekend and come home to do things. I am so torn because I want to be with her but need to be here too.
I will probably go back up to be with her and will be neglectful of my web site and blog posts. My beloved brother also had a partial removal of his prostate and a kidney removed with cancer earlier this year. As well, a nephew has had testicular cancer. So it has been a big year for this dreadful illness in our family.
I wanted to let people know so that there is some explanation for neglect of web things.
I hope you are all quilting to your hearts content and loving every (well, most anyway - maybe not the unpicking) minute of it.
Til next time,
Robyn
Thursday, September 3, 2009
New Design - Dresden Diamonds
Hi Quilters,
Just a quick little note to tell you all that our new Dresden Diamonds pattern is now available in the store. The pattern contains all of the instructions and information you will need to make the quilt top and I hope people enjoy doing so. It is a full size pattern and there is no joining of pages, photocopying or enlarging.
I have just had two wonderful days with a friend who came down from Melbourne to stay. She, too, is a quilter, and we had a lovely time gallivanting around the countryside looking in fabric, quilting and patchwork stores, drinking coffee and eating cake etc. We are so lucky to be able to do these things.
I hope you out there are happy and well and feeling excited about starting a new project or finishing one off; or just enjoying being in the middle of one.
Til the next time
Happy quilting,
Robyn
Just a quick little note to tell you all that our new Dresden Diamonds pattern is now available in the store. The pattern contains all of the instructions and information you will need to make the quilt top and I hope people enjoy doing so. It is a full size pattern and there is no joining of pages, photocopying or enlarging.
I have just had two wonderful days with a friend who came down from Melbourne to stay. She, too, is a quilter, and we had a lovely time gallivanting around the countryside looking in fabric, quilting and patchwork stores, drinking coffee and eating cake etc. We are so lucky to be able to do these things.
I hope you out there are happy and well and feeling excited about starting a new project or finishing one off; or just enjoying being in the middle of one.
Til the next time
Happy quilting,
Robyn
Thursday, August 20, 2009
The Relevance of a Blog
Hi Blog Readers,
When we set up our web site, my husband (the computer guru) told me that I needed to be "out there" and have my own blog. So I wrote a few things and posted a few blogs and then began to wonder what they were all about.
I know that people read them because Feedjit tells me they do but there are no comments or responses ......
As the web site provides information about our products and we have a Newsletter that goes out monthly, what is the purpose of a blog????
Can anyone tell me??
Can anyone tell me why they read them and what they want to read???? Do people who don't receive the Newsletter read them???
Should I be communicating what I am up to in my little room designing and making my quilts????? Are people interested in knowing those things???
Are people interested in our beautiful garden as my nectarine tree is bursting forth with pink blossoms??????
Please leave a comment and let us know these things or send an email from the web site because I would really like to know.
Happy Quilting,
Robyn
When we set up our web site, my husband (the computer guru) told me that I needed to be "out there" and have my own blog. So I wrote a few things and posted a few blogs and then began to wonder what they were all about.
I know that people read them because Feedjit tells me they do but there are no comments or responses ......
As the web site provides information about our products and we have a Newsletter that goes out monthly, what is the purpose of a blog????
Can anyone tell me??
Can anyone tell me why they read them and what they want to read???? Do people who don't receive the Newsletter read them???
Should I be communicating what I am up to in my little room designing and making my quilts????? Are people interested in knowing those things???
Are people interested in our beautiful garden as my nectarine tree is bursting forth with pink blossoms??????
Please leave a comment and let us know these things or send an email from the web site because I would really like to know.
Happy Quilting,
Robyn
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Craft and Quilt Show
I went off to the Melbourne Craft and Quilt Show yesterday and I just have to say how wonderful it was. If you have even a tiny inclination toward craft and creativity you will find something there to interest, look at or purchase.
For people like me who live and breathe quilts it is a feast for the mind and spirit that sets my imagination ablaze.
I find that to wander through the beautiful quilts is a most nurturing and inspiring experience and I always leave with more ideas for future projects.
That is to say nothing about my arms being laden with fabrics and tools of all kinds.
I find the experience of a day at a fabulous fair like that to be uplifting and inspirational and it is such a credit to the organisers that we have a show of this calibre in such a great venue - thank you.
I do hope that lots of you out there can make it to the show or to those held in other cities, as it is definitely worth every effort.
Happy quilting
Robyn
For people like me who live and breathe quilts it is a feast for the mind and spirit that sets my imagination ablaze.
I find that to wander through the beautiful quilts is a most nurturing and inspiring experience and I always leave with more ideas for future projects.
That is to say nothing about my arms being laden with fabrics and tools of all kinds.
I find the experience of a day at a fabulous fair like that to be uplifting and inspirational and it is such a credit to the organisers that we have a show of this calibre in such a great venue - thank you.
I do hope that lots of you out there can make it to the show or to those held in other cities, as it is definitely worth every effort.
Happy quilting
Robyn
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Tangerine Tango Release
Hi Everyone,
PHEW, how busy can one get these days. We all seem to be flat out , don't we?? We have been busy down here at Robian Applique Design Headquarters coming up with new ideas and getting ready for our July special. Don't forget, if there are any of you out there who haven't yet signed up in the web site store, for our Newsletter then please do so. Our list is increasing and we are very happy to welcome lots of new people to our site.
http://www.robianappliquedesigns.com.au
Pam at Pam Bono Designs USA has just released my, "On The Village Green" pattern to the world today and I am hoping it goes well. "On The Village Green" and "Robianville" are still very popular here.
If you haven't checked out our new Tangerine Tango Table Runner pattern, that is it there at the top. We hope you like it. There is also a Place Mat pattern to go with it and DVD's. See our store.
Til the next time,
Happy Quilting,
Robyn
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