The weather is just wonderful, no sweaters today, so I bounced out of bed and in my enthusiasm to get working I forgot to turn off the shed alarm.Whoops!!! sorry to the neighbors at 5.00 am, they possibly think it was a ‘shed’ invasion!!I’m tackling the dreaded paperwork. Contracts, bookings and some other exciting things!!!…
Author: Pam Holland
I travel the world teaching and talking.
Photographing and writing,
Sharing experiences
What a way to go.
It fits….!!!looks pretty good overall I think. The problem is that the settee is a sofa bed and because I’m short, when I sit on it my legs don’t reach the floor, so I need big cushions behind me. This is in the "summer house "… or my no 2 studio…. I must admit, the…
I do foo foo too!!!!
Ah, it’s Easter and with the family festivities over I have time to make a cushion cover… Nothing hard, just sheer foo foo.What does foo foo mean, Fun over and above the ordinary (twice). I actually fell asleep at the computer tonight while waiting for the photo to download. It’s not the first time I’ve…
There’s water in the Todd
Well I ended up quilting a lot on this small quilt, but I think it adds interest.The photo of the tree was taken just outside the venue I taught at last week. To be honest the dot fabric is South African, but I love it and decided it added a lot to the quilt. The…
This is the back of the quilt. Pretty hard to see the quilting isn’t it. You can see the white line I did to show the difference…. the "bottom line" thread that I used in the bobbin is very fine and blends beautifully with the background. Specially when you consider it is quited almost every…
This fabric in the bottom picture is just wonderful for the borders, it looks like mud flats to me…. I quilted around every small brown image… Fabric is by South Sea imports. M. M. Fab. I used a 60/8 sharp needle and I call this sculpture quilting….because I’m actually sculpturing the fabric using the pattern…
The thread created wonderful contours, very similar to the ones I viewed from the plane. I did pleat some of the fabric, but it is difficult to see.The black and white fabric is a great contrast to the overall picture.
The small picture was illustrated with the pen end of the Tsukineko pigma ink pen.
Quilt Journal No 4.
It’s small, just 2ft X 1 ft 6", but a journal is supposed to be small!!. This is the fourth of my quilt journals for the year in the 4th month of the year….!As I mentioned before, on Monday I was lucky enough to see the water flowing into Lake Eyre and because it is…
Photo to fabric
I’ve had one of those days when I can’t settle to anything… tomorrow will be better…However, this afternoon I decided to try to re-create the photos I put up on the blog the other day… I hope to quilt them tomorrow… leaves and contours on the gum and I will actually do my own dot…