The Passionate Quilter

Pyalong Quilt Show

2009-11-12T14:17:00.002+11:00

Quilters of the BigRoom are now getting ready

to hang their quilts for their 3rd Exhibition at Pyalong State School

on Saturday 14 and 15 of November.

GO CATS G0

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Come on the cats

2009-09-26T19:08:00.003+10:00

today the Cats won the 2009 GRANDFINAL..... Here is a quilt made by THE PASSIONATE QUILTER for her Bestest Friend Carolyn....GO THE CATS.......

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PJ's Dragon

2009-09-23T07:14:00.006+10:00

I have had requests to learn how I made PJ's Dragon.I first found the border fabric and made the frame, cut out the back ground red 2" larger than needed. I did have a large picture of the dragon and enlarged it section by section. The sections of the head are all separate and quilted and beaded then attached altogether. Each and every one of the scales are stitched and turned inside out then stitched in place. The feet are also quilted and beaded and stitched in place but hag free. The back bone was quilted on my long arm machine then cut in to individual pieces and stitched on.

The black border was padded and stitched into place the I stitched the gold braid on either side on the raw edge. I then went onto the Internet looking for Chinese symbols for the back ground quilting.

PJ"S Dragon was my own design taking me many months to finish. It has won at two quilt exhibitions.

PJ (shown in the picture) loves his quilt but is disappointed that it still lives at Grandmama's house. He will get it one day......xxx

Happy Stitching from The Passionate Quilter

getting back into blogging

2009-09-22T14:56:00.004+10:00

After several months the Passionate Quilter in back on track. my hair has grown but has come back grey.... not blonde.....Oh well ...

I have not been sitting about but have been very active in the Quilting Room. One of my quilts was made from fabrics got from Quilters of the BigRoom fabric swap. The center square features a fabric vase and 3D flowers but the stems and leaves are painted, this cut down on time as it was a week-end quilt, started Friday night and finished by Sunday night. With my quilting business The Passionate Quilter getting very busy my own Play Time is limited.

Being able to drive to the other side of our Tiny Town of Gordon to get fabrics from Annz Material World is wonderful. She has a lovely range of Moda Jelly Rolls etc to look through.

Happy Stitching

Vivienne Shepherd

2009-03-19T09:19:00.002+11:00

Well there you go I did it raising $700.00 fro a great cause. Being a cancer survivor i was very committed to this cause.

Also now i don't have to put any more colors in my hair..hope it come back OK LOL my dear mother has been silver for years and says I still should keep the color going...we shall wait and see what color it is when it comes back.....

Life is Wonderful......XXXXXXXX

WORDGREATESTSHAVE.COM

2009-02-26T12:13:00.003+11:00

See all this hair...its coming off on Saturday night 14th March ....please go to worldsgratestshave.com to donate a couple of dollars......

Being a cancer survivor i know how important this is......

Sadness Throughout victoria

2009-02-11T16:18:00.002+11:00

My Love goes out to all Victorians during this terrible time.

My Daughter LuLu was told to prepare to leave her home in Hidden Valley near Wandong, they didn't have to leave and all was well.

One of my patchwork girlfriends was not so lucky loosing her beautiful home in Wandong escaping with only a few things. On that same day her daughter was involved in an accident when a speed boat hit the houseboat she was on. she is now recovering in hospital after surgery.

Back in Action

2009-02-11T15:51:00.003+11:00

Well after many months not doing anything on my blog I am back.
In November I had a radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer... All is OK i am happy to say.
Thank you to all my wonderful family and friends for their Love & Support.

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QUILTERS of the BIGROOM second quilt show will be held at Pyalong Primary School.

on Show there will be quilts form or 'Chinese Whispers Challenge 2007' and a 'Bra' Exhibition

dates for this week-end are 8th and 9th of November. Pyalong is just out of Kilmore.

contact me for more details... Vivienne ..The Passionate Quilter

Also at this week-end will be Fabrics from Annz Material World and My Favorite Things

1st and 2nd in Viewers Choice....Happy ? You Bet

2008-10-16T19:11:00.005+11:00

PJ's Dragon was voted second and my BMFQ block of the month came first. i had a lot of fun with this quilt only the block in the centre of the bottom row was made as the pattern instruced, I changed all the others in some way adding or taking out some of the patterns and adding fillers and the big block on the right. There were only 9 blocks in the origanial quilt.

All the pisley fabric is beaded, there wuld be thousands on beads on the quilt as i used the beads to appliqe the flowers on.

This quilt was made and put together over 12 months.

It of cause made me very happy to win the Viewers Choice first time ever.

A Project with a Friend

2008-10-10T14:48:00.002+11:00

I have told you before that I have my friend Catherine come to play often...well last week she put one of her Buddy Quilts...into the BMFQ quilt Show and she writes.....

This was made with my dear friend Vivienne, it's what we do when we spend time together. "Our project with a friend" It was started on Calways Lane , I live on Bedford and we use to live opposite each other on Garden Street. it was finished on her birthday 08-08-08 How Special

Catherine called the quilt....Friends & Flowers on Calways, Friends on Bedford & Flowers in the Garden....this is also embroidered around the green border on the lovely quilt.

the fabric in the centre of the quilt are from www.annzmaterialworld.com

Sewing with a Friend is truly a Wonderful time and i urge you all to try it.

My Grandson PJ so happy to see his Quilt.

2008-10-04T20:19:00.004+10:00

PJ was so happy to see his quilt hanging at the BMFQ exhibition on the weekend, he thinks the Dragon should be living at his house now..but I'm not ready to take it of the Sewing Lounge wall YET..lol..
Tomorrow I'm of to see the girls of Quilters of the BigRoom at LuLu's our meeting put back one week because of the school holidays.
Tomorrow night we have a Private showing of our Bra Challenge that will be at our 2nd Quilt Exhibition at the Pyalong Primary School on the 2nd week-end of November..Also beautiful quilts from our Chinese Whispers will be on display...
Keep up your beautiful quilting ....TPQ

Bacchus Marsh Friendship Quilters Exhibition

2008-10-04T20:06:00.003+10:00

To day was the first day of the BMFQ exhibition, Kerry of http://www.myfavoritethings.com.au/ and Ann of http://www.annzmeterialworld.com.au/ joined with me to put a stall together at the show.

The work of the ladies was beautiful.

Bacchus Marsh Quilt Exhibition

2008-10-01T06:50:00.006+10:00

Just wanted to let you know I will be at the Bacchus Marsh Friendship Quilters Exhibition with my Friends Kerry Gillespie "My Favorite Things" & "Annz Material World"this weekend at the Public Hall Main St BM...

look froward to seeing you there

Quilt of the Day is my 'House Quilt' built in Benalla 2001 and quilted in my new home in Gordon 2002 . I was hand quilting it and looked at my newly painte diningroom and relised that it matched nicely so i unpicked it and quilted it on my domestic machine and hung the next day.

have a good day....... TPQ

Sue comes to stay all the way from Perth

2008-09-29T21:04:00.003+10:00

Sue my girlfriend from Perth came over for my birthday in August 08-08-08 and what a wonderful birthday it was...

This lovely vibrant and very funny friend enjoys the quilts i make , especilly the 3 I have made for her but would NEVER make one herself ...why are we friends ?????

Because she like a drink, shopping for nice things and Eating great food .

I met Sue on Christmas Island in 1994 when I worked over there. She cmae to our wedding and spotted a quilt hanging on the rack and said' mmmmmmmmm i like that one so i gave it to her...weak moment...lol

My Sewing Lounge opens for FUN

2008-09-29T18:39:00.003+10:00

The week-end 19th & 20th September Lorraine & Edith two of my dear patchwork friends made the trip down from Benalla to spend time with me.
It didn't take us long to get the machines humming on Friday night...sewing and sipping is always the best way to start a weekend.
After Trevor cooked us his special Egg & Bacon Mac Trevor burgers on Saturday we got down to sewing again. After lunch Nola & Clare from my little patchwork group 'Quilters of the BigRoom of the West' came to play and watched us do some fabric dying and on Sunday Lou & Heather-Ann came over.
The week-end was full of fun and look forward to them coming back in Febuary.
They left after morning tea on the Monday

My Quilting Princess

2008-09-14T12:15:00.002+10:00

This past week I have spent many hours making a quilt for http://www.annzmaterialworld.com/ and right beside me always is my cat booddybood. Not a cuddly cat likes to be about us UNTIL the grandchildren arrive and then she is up on the water tank as quick as wink.

To day my dear mother and dad have come up from Geelong for the day. We are off to pick up my trotter as he has been broken in and ready to Run..hopefully RUN like the Wind. Being a quilter e has the name of Missouri Star....LOL when he was born I got out 501 patchwork blocks to pick the name but Lulu found it in her book first..

Till next time Happy Stitching

Vivienne TPQ

Autumn Magic

2008-09-12T16:27:00.003+10:00

Today's quilt is "Autumn Magic"inspiration came from pictures from one of many quilting books I look at, ...just which one I carn't remember...

I spent a few days with my friend Kama, she is an accomplished artist and showed me how to paint, or rather be confident to paint on fabric..relax and paint... so I watched her as she free

hand painted the trees on four panels. The fabric was commercially dyed, the leaves were put on using raw edge applique with my Gammill Plus quilting machine, then i used the quilting technique know as Drawing with Thread..

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Quilt Diva

2008-09-07T17:57:00.005+10:00

This quilt was very easy to make, I got the pattern and fabric..Moda Quilt Diva (a Jelly Roll) from http://www.annzmaterialworld.com/ the pattern was easy to read and follow and having the Jelly Roll ment the cutting time was cut down also.

Darling Trevor dropped into spotlight to pick up the black and was ticked off because a lady pushed in front of him " what she think I was doing there looking at the counter????" LOL

i quilted the quilt in the ditch and used dacron instead of cotton or wool because i wanted the high loft and cuddly look.

I made this quilt to take with me on Retreats....I was to go on one with Kerry http://www.myfavoritethings.com.au/ but i have to go back to hospital Again for a small opp.

I will make another quilt and pretend to be on retreat.

I am also making another quilt for Annz collection.

Weekend with my grandchildren

2008-09-01T15:13:00.004+10:00

Lulu's children Claire & PJ came to stay for the weekend while Lulu & Steven had a weekend in a Spud Hut in the near by town of Springbank.

The children had fun on Grandpa's quad bike, zooming about in the trailer getting muddy and helping their grandpa with the gathering of the eggs and wood,

While they were kept busy I quilted Lulu's Japanese quilt.

Playing Sewing with Friends

2008-08-25T21:00:00.006+10:00

Today my friends Catherine and Lou came to play, Lou sat quietly and worked on her Life's Pleasures and Treasures by Kerry Gillespie myfavoritethings-kerry.blogspot.com while Catherine and I worked on a quilt that needed lots of thinking while piecing not to mention the anguish ......etc ....any way the quilts are together and now we will work on them and make them our own.

Making a quilt with a buddy is a great thing, Seeing how each one interprets the written pattern to the end result......... I will publish the to quilts we worked on when finished. Catherine comes to play very often, we don't always make Quilts but we do always drink champagne and enjoy a piece of chocolate or two.

If you look very closely at the table you can see the glasses, coffee cups etc etc.....LOL

a good day was had by all... there will be now sewing tomorrow but it is quite possible the fabrics will be bought we are going to lunch then to Gail's Employium in Sebastopol.

"PJ's Dragon" 2007

2008-08-23T15:23:00.000+10:00

Insperation for PJ's Dragon come form a serong brought home by my daughter LuLu from Bali in 2007

I had the border fabric and new when i saw it i had to have it (as you do) collecting the gold and black fabrics took many months to find just one of the pleasures in quilt making.

Once I got the quilt in my mind I wanted to start but didn't have the red fabric for his back so I set up my Big Machine and drew each back bone scale with gold thread then filled them all in.Then came the making of the scales for his body, I used my quilting foot on my Pfaff Grand Quilter and using a folded 2" strip i stitched U's all along it, trimmed them and pulled them inside out using tweesers. They were all sewed on one by one. His head as made piece by piece and then put together using lots of beads. I then went into the internet to see what background features the Chinese used in their pictures and found the black and gold border and design for quilting.

I have showed him at Jeff's Shed Victorian Quilters Show Case. Chandlers Cottage and it one first prize at out local quilt show Ballan Autumn Festival in the oriental section. 2007

I made this quilt for my grandson PJ ( son of LuLu) and at the moment it lives on my loungeroom wall,

He will get it one day.....................................

Turning Twenty Quilt for Annz Material World

2008-08-21T09:54:00.000+10:00

Good morning everyone, last week snow this week a Koala.

Yesterday I finished a quilt for Ann's shop http://www.annzmaterilaworld.com/ this fabric and pattern is available from Ann. Last week i also made 2 others from her latest Moda Jelly Roll collection and will post as soon as I finish them.

Well I better get out and get that big machine humming.

Blogging with a friend

2008-08-15T13:42:00.000+10:00

My friend Kerry Gillespie from My Favorite Things has been here for hours helping me with this blogging stuff. Gee there is so much to learn and take in.

I think it was easier to find a husband...LOL

It is another rainy day here in Gordon but lovely in the lounge for sewing with the fire burning.
I am making a Jelly Roll quilt for my girl friend Sue's mother for her 80th birthday.

My Favorite sewing companion is my DD (darling daughter) Lulu we spend many wonderful hours sewing with the grandchildren playing inside or out.
Here is my DD at our recent Quilters of the BigRoom PINK retreat at Sunnystones in Bacchus
Marsh with our guest of honour The Dame.

Quilts in the Gordon Hall

2008-08-13T17:51:00.000+10:00

To day in Gordon was very cold again ,but no snow ..... The small quilt exhibition at the little country hall was pleasent but not many ladies came in for coffee but the ladies that did show were happy with the Show & Tell that Ann and I put together. My friend Ann is pictured with her little toy poodle Peggy Sue.

I am enjoying the Olimpics while I sew a lovely quilt for Ann.

Ann has MS and dosen't use her machine very often these days but spends many hours in her internet shop annz material world ( WWW.annzmaterialworld.com) world buying beautiful fabrics and books. please go and have a look, some off you have bought her fabrics and I'm sure Ann would love to see your finished projects.

TTFN

HAPPY STITCHIG

Vivivenne TPQ

2008-08-12T17:41:00.000+10:00

Well this blogging ist'n so bad..LOL...today I got a comment from my very first internet friend Pidge how wonderful to see her name again. she spent many many hours teaching me how to play on the computer. I even went and had a lovely holiday up in Kingaroy with her and her darling hubby. Gee that was 8 years ago,

Today was the monthly meeting of the BacchusMarsh Friendship Quilters and a everyone is getting their quilts all ready for our Quilt Exhibition 3rd & 4th of October.

Tomorrow my friend Ann from http://www.annzmaterialworld.com/ are doing a small quilt exhibition and workshop in basic patchwork and showing the next weekend workshop in What You Can Do With a Jelly Roll in our little town hall at Gordon. We hope the cold dosen't keep the ladies away.

I have a friend Catherine and she comes to play very often, the quilt showed is what we did with our First Jelly Roll, moda Ruby's Flower Garden. from annz material world.

TTFN

Happy Stitching

Vivienne TPQ

snow snow everywhere

2008-08-11T09:29:00.000+10:00

I have lived in Gordon near Ballarat for 6 years but this is the heavest snow I have seen out my front door.

Just recently I went back to Benalla to be part of a quilt exhibition put together by the group i started in 1996 "The Daily Quilters". They did a great job of putting together over 50 quilts and raised some money for The Biggest Morning Tea.

A couple of years ago I taught a lovely lady Ann basic patchwork she has gone one step further and now has a Patchwork shop on the internet WWW.Annzmaterialworld.com today we are getting together to do a workshop to be at the Gordon Hall on Wednesday morning, so i'll be off now catch you later

HAPPY STITHING

from Vivienne TPQ

first blog .....Here We Go

2008-08-10T16:47:00.000+10:00

after looking at mt friend Kerry Gillespie of "My Favorite Things" blog I dicided to try one myself..... so here we go...

I have been Passionate about Quilting for many years now after learning basic patchwork and quilting in Singapore in 1984. I had done patchwork before that making my DD (dear daughter) a quilt for her pram in 1975 but I didn't know what i was doing in thoes days, being an interior decorator i played with lovely fabrics for many years.

When I returned to Melbourne in 1997 I opened a Patchwork shop "Manily Patchwork" in Moonee Ponds. in 1998 we moved back to Singapore in i took over the teaching of patchwork from the lass who taught me and sarted WWQ World Wide Quilters. doing work shops, challenges and quilt exhibitions. In 1991 we returned to Australia and moved to North East Victoria. When settled in Benalla I started teaching patchwork again and held a "Quilts i the Garden" exhibition and started The Daily Quilters we met every Wednesday morning with lost of fun and laughter along with some stitching.

On April 13th i had a terriable horse riding accident which was to change my life for ever ..but that is for another blog.

HAPPY STITCHING from Vivienne TPQ

the picture in one of 7 stitcheries from a quilt designed by Kerry Gillespie of My Favorite Things

finished 08-07-08