On the road again and I’m looking forward to sharing beautiful pictures of Mexico.
Author: Pam Holland
I travel the world teaching and talking.
Photographing and writing,
Sharing experiences
What a way to go.
Next stop Mexico.
I begin my blog today is a state of nervousness and high excitement brace in a few days I’m off to Mexico and Guatemala for a month.
Why nervous?
Well, I’m always a little nervous entering another country on my own. Of course I’m not going to be on my own, I will be with friends always, but yes, it’s an adventure and I look forward to sharing my ideas on textile art
How does a quilt teacher design a teaching quilt. – and why?
This is the Alamogordo quilt from last year
Images in Capture and Create.
This year at the Southern New Mexico Festival of quilts I will be taking people out on a photography excursion.
It won’t be a technical camera trip, but a “Capture and Create” tour. These are some of the images I took last year at White Sands National Monument here in Alamogordo.
The pattern for the Sockittome image.
If you click on the word Socks, you can download the PDF pattern for the socks. If you type in Sockittome in the search page you will get all of the instructions on how to make the quilt
Images of Alamogordo – Southern New Mexico Festival of Quilts
Next stop was to help some ladies prepare a quilt for a very special event in their daughters coming of age celebration. We’ve been invited to attend in July and it’s quite an honor. They showed me the Teepees they make and I was in awe, they are amazing structures and I would love to know how to make them.
The Southern New Mexico Festival of Quilts.
To make a long story short, Holland selflessly agreed to lend her talent, time and name to help make the dream of a local quilting event a reality. Her only request was that the proceeds be given back to the community to benefit children.
The Travel psyche
I’m away from home a considerable part of the year and there is a ‘travel psyche’ that emerges after the first flush of travel excitement. For instance, an event that can be settled with a discussion either at home or away often escalates in the mind, simply because we don’t have the familiar surroundings and…
My interpretation is my art.
Goodness, my last post caused a lot of comment. I’ve just been able to get onto the internet and I’ve tried to go through the comments on FB, and on the blog. I appreciate the comments made, and yes, they are all valid. Everything I do is influenced by my lifestyle and my interpretation is my…
Amazing Indian quilts.
This is a blog I wrote some time ago, but its just one such blog about different genre’s in quilting.