http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=19427916&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 Film made with a Canon 5d Mark II SLR It was HOT yesterday, 108 degrees and I picked up Granddaughter Tilly from pre-school early. We had a swim and lounged inside eating icecream. I watched TV, she sat with her portable DVD player on her small craft table… "I have a surprise for…
Author: Pam Holland
I travel the world teaching and talking.
Photographing and writing,
Sharing experiences
What a way to go.
Street work quilting.
This is the back of the quilt. I have a large stash and I never buy fabric for a quilt back, I like to use the fabric I have stored away. The apple and newspaper piece was a wonderful cotton table cloth I picked up at an Antique Mall in the US. Its vintage, but…
Film, Video and Quilting.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=19344546&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 Shirl's Pearl is my new camera… A Canon 5D Mark II. I've had it two months and still learning a lot about it. It's a whole new language. On this amazing camera, you can shoot High Definition Video and I only just went through the motion of shooting a film on it today. So…
Street work
The quilt top is ready to prepare for quilting. It looks a little messy right now, but the quilting is planned and the shading of the various pieces of fabric will be quite subtle. It will serve as the background for the quilting. I will use quite a few shades of grey. 50 weight Superior…
When something sad happens…
Sometimes we're powerless to help.
My Milagros
My Milagros is completed. I've been away at a resort with the bambinos… In between walks, swimming, games, bumper cars and lots of chats and baby cuddling, I was able to sew on the metal images. So I decided to finish it when I got home…. Like the Milagros I saw in Mexico, the images…
Recognition, – we embrace it.
I think the most exciting time in my quilting career was winning the Jewell Pearce Patterson Award for International Quilt Teachers. I think I walked on air for a week or so… it was as good as winning the lottery. Each year, International Quilt Market honors a worthy quilting instructor with the scholarship, created in…
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My Milagros
Woow, it's been a busy day… We took a long walk with family and I've been working in the shed. First I'm working on designing my tag.!!!! you never know it could become another string to my bow. I finished the quilting on this quilt today. I began this project last year. I travel and…
Working on the project.
The quilt is really coming together now. All the applique is assembled and everything is set out on the quilt. I rather like these guys and I'm pleased that they balance the intensiveness of the graffiti. I've placed the quit illustration and I won't have as many images as I first thought… I need to…