Friday morning and it's going to be a busy day so I'm attempting to catch up on all of yesterdays events. The AQC is being held in the Royal Exhibition Building The surrounding gardens and the building was built in 1880 for Melbourne’s first international exhibition, a product of the optimism, enthusiasm and energy of…
Category: Capture & Create
Australasian Quilt Festival
It's been a wonderful day. A day full of surprises and inspiration. The photo above is from Lisa Waltons booth, her hand dyed fabric is just wonderful. These Japanese ladies made me some green tea, they were so gracious and wanted everyone to share… I was a little embarrassed that a lot of people were…
Australasian Quilt Event
It’s great to be back in an airport.I normally travel 10 months of the year but this year I’m on Sabbatical working on my books and major project, the Bayeux Tapestry to Quilt. This is my first travel for the year. My time off means I’ll only be traveling for 4 months and it seems…
I hope you can all share my art, photography and bumbling words as I travel.
The bags are packed. I have six cameras ready. I've packed the Good clothes, and casual stuff for our road trip after the event…..and I have an air of expectancy as I get ready to leave for the Australasian Quilt Festival in Melbourne Australia. How on earth can I have two 50 lb bags… well,…
Capturing the ambience.
This is a man in Times Square New York… I'm looking at new ways to create an image to ultimately create a fabric image from. What is nice about this image is the blue painted strip in the picture. There are red tables in the square.. and the blue painted surface of the road looks…
I've spent hours working on the lap top getting ready to travel, shifting photos. Cleaning files and generally keeping out of the studio
Block 18 is a little different.
I'm going to be away over Easter so this is my Easter block, I'm getting in early and once again, the block is bigger than 6" it's 17" X 14". via pamhollanddesigns.typepad.com This was an Easter Quilt I did a while ago…. it's a funny little quilt… must remember to give it to the kids.
Green Bunnies in our yard.
It's been so nice to be home for Easter… We had a great family day yesterday… Roast, lamb, pork, chicken, lots of Chocolate and the little poeple had a ball. What on earth are they discussing. AND we have green bunnies in our backyard. We couldn't hide the eggs because Lionel would eat them.!!!…
Easter doings – re creating garments.
Its been a busy Easter with family events, illustrating, writing and photographing… Tilly and her family shifted into a new house with a Pool!!!!!! So that was pretty darn exciting… Rachael sent this phone photo….!!! cute. I've received a armload of books to study… some I like, others are a little disappointing… I can't believe…
Finishing the illustrations…
These are new illustations for my book and of course they are copyright to me…… chookies… I'm making a few changes…. 10 in fact……!!!! Z for Zebra…. I took photos of Zebras in the San Diego Zoo and I used it as a model. R for Ralf… this is my little Dog Ralf who figures…