A photo at a market in Brisbane captures the imagination…. the color, the shape, the composition. Which inspires me to do a journal sketch. Which, in turn gets converted to a painting in my Ipad. It gets printed on fabric because I'm testing a new type of fabric. I select the colors, and sandwich the…
Author: Pam Holland
I travel the world teaching and talking.
Photographing and writing,
Sharing experiences
What a way to go.
Erasable pens.
This is a post from Charlotte Warr Anderson this morning and I am sharing her post with you. I thought I'd give you all a heads up about Frixion Erasable pens. A student showed me hers at Road to California in January. She drew a line, thin but quite black, and then…
More Fabric.
This one will accompany the Quail. I designed this one a long time ago…. surprisingly it turned up in class one day…. I got a shock… sure it had been changed a little but… it was still pretty close…. !!!!!!
I’ve been designing fabric today…..
These are some of the designs I've done for our event in Alamogordo….. What do you think guys…? Now I have to do the fabrics to accompany them…. stripes, stars, mountains etc……
The passion of performance.
Sun, music, good food and the privilege of sharing time with talented people from around the globe has been a gift these past four days. However, there is a tinge of sadness and despair as we watch in horror the events as they unfold in Japan. We have a Japanese daughter and Rimiko… and…
Beautiful patterns and colors.
I was privileged to hear wonderful music and photograph brilliant colors yesterday. My Womade Gallery.
The gumboots song and getting zapped by the electric fence in my jamas.
Sunday morning has traditionally been my morning get out the iron. With a mountain of school uniforms to iron and my husbands shirts…. I set about this huge task before breakfast every sunday… I still do it now (to a lesser extent). I listen to an Iconic radio program Australia all over. It used to…
The quilt is finished. (sort of)
I've finished the quilt, but I'm not happy with the binding so that will have to come off and be re-done. What I've found is that the muslin (cheesecloth) stretches at a different degree to the cotton base… the quilt is completely flat, but I think I will block it and put the binding…
The big fish quilt stage 3.
Hours and hours of quilting today…… I've cropped the photo… and I'm happy with the results…but there is a lot more quilting to do… the rest will all be free motion quilting now. The big fish needs to be quilted on and it will blend a lot better…. I can add more color to the…