From the photos in the previous post, I traced the pattern of the lilies I could create the fabric for the lilies in several ways. Use purchased fabric. Dye the fabric with pigment ink. In effect, I would be creating a painted image with dyes. Dye the fabric to match the colors in my photos…
Author: Pam Holland
I travel the world teaching and talking.
Photographing and writing,
Sharing experiences
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Portrait border underway 3.
Still working on the border for the portrait….. it's taking a quite long time to illustrate….but then again I'm doing 3 projects at once. This morning I also began working on the lilies that that are going into the quilt. But first, let's talk about the border drapplique. I want it to look like a…
Portrait border underway 2.
Life has been a little hectic the past week, every minute scheduled…. but, illustrating this panel has been wonderful. It's going to take some time and I have 4 to do….!!! The side panels will be different. and the four corner blocks different again These lines are quite small and I had difficulty in the…
Von Schnitzel Rumpenhumpenshtein – the third”
It's been a busy couple of days with a two day visit from my Mum, and it was an opportunity for the entire family to spend time with her….. Dinner Wednesday night was like a comedy movie, kids playing excitedly with the their favorite toys (the stuffed rats I have in their toy box.) Plastic…
Portrait border underway
The illustration I showed you the other day was the pattern illustrated on white paper using a fine (.3) black pigment ink pen. The work is quite detailed as you can see, and I decided that I would just reverse this pattern for the other side… How do I do that….? 1. I scanned the…
I look up at the clock on the wall and it tells me it's 8.00 pm…. I've been editing for 12 hours and I'm still in my pyjamas….. OK, so I don't have to get changed for bed, I can just fall in…..!!!! I've even had visitors today (lucky you can't tell my jamas are…
Back working on the Frida Portrait.
I've had to make a decision on what to put on the border of Frida….If you remember I decided on hand drawn tiles, somehow, they just didn't work for me. So now I've made a decision…. I'm going to illustrate the entire border and then quilt it in a similar way to the alphabet. In…
I just Love it.!!!!!
This is hilarious – Daughter Rachael who is a school teacher sent this to me this morning…!!!! This is the message that the Maroochydore High School Queensland, staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine . This is the actual answering machine message for the school. This came about because they…
Thrift to Fantasy
This little gem has been pinned to a quilt on the wall in the 'shed' for many yearsSo, it's time to give it a more permanent home… I'm going to put it in a frame and put it by the front door…. I have a book in my library that I get out every now…