So here it is.
I’ve been teaching quilting and textile art for a long time, at least 25 years now.
My ideas and techniques have changed a great deal over that time, and I now work mainly from my photographic imagery which I transfer to cloth in one way or another.
I see myself as a journalist in fabric. Each quilt tells a story.
I teach multiple processes in each quilt, which adds to its distinctive effect. However, some of my quilts echo the traditions of traditional quilt making and cultural distinctiveness.
I have been nominated and finalist as The ICAP teacher of the year several times. I’m yet to win the top prize, but I think being nominated by my students and peers is an honour. I was also lucky enough to win the Jewel Pearce Patterson Scholarship for international quilt teachers through IQA.
I’ve taught all over the globe, and I love the challenge of teaching in another language. I’m thrilled to say that many of my students have gone on to become Tutors and proven winners in their own right and this teacher for one is very proud.
Whimsy of Wandering – quilting illustration
A one or two day class for all levels of experience.
Have you ever been to Tuscany?
This is a small drawing I did when I was in Tuscany and you will trace it on fabric, stitch with black thread, and then colour with pens and pencils.
It’s different because I quilt first and then use pencils to colour. However, there are a few tricks to using the pencil to make them permanent.
This class can be taught online.
The Amazing Alphabet. – Quilting illustration.
Leave your worries at home and create an amazing art piece….. then you quilt it.
Its an Alphabet with an incredible attitude.
The letters are from a series of an Alphabet I designed for my grandchildren while I was traveling. First the image is traced onto the fabric, colored and then free-motion quilted with black thread.
You don’t have to be able to draw you will trace the image!
- In this class you will learn how to draw on fabric, (actually you trace the image)
- Then stitch free motion, leaving the feed dogs up.
- You will learn a great deal about threads, needles and free motion control.
- This is one of my most popular classes.
- This class can be taught online.
The Cat. – Thread painting.
A one or two day class for all levels of experience.
Introduction:-
I love thread painting, but I want to do it differently, I want it to look realistic. No long lines of thread that look like a stitching line.
Threads are like crayon or pencils and the fabric is like the paper It sounds difficult, but in reality it’s a formular.
- I povide a kit with thread and the image for this class.
- Contact me for information on this class.
- This is a technique I have adapted. This quilt looks like a painting and I will teach you how to achieve this effect. No long lines of stitching, but the sticking lines are similar to a pencil drawing, small and directional. You will learn basic art and photography techniques on how to achieve a very realistic thread painted image.
- Everybody has style!
Some go for simplicity, others like more detail. You may tend to carefully stitch your image or you may take a more haphazard approach.
Perhaps you have a favorite design element or two.. Also consider your personal stitching style.There are no right or wrong methods. Its all personal choice.For me, drawing with thread is where creative license begins. This is where I begin to move things, change values, construct or deconstruct. It is the start.
Brooches.
A One day class for all levels of experience.
Create small textile art brooches, using art, and found fabric.
- I used old collars from mens shirts and also old Quilts.
- You will receive the pattern for several different designs.
- We use hand and machine sewing and its a fabulous, freeing experience.
- Search your scrap bag, gather up some old fabrics and voila, you have a wonderful small art piece.
- This class can be taught online.
Painting with thread – Inspired to stitch, the wolf.
A one, two or three-day class for all levels of experience.
- In this class you will learn how to create and interesting back ground for your quilt rather than use a single piece of fabric.
- The class is a perfect marriage of both painting with ink and painting with thread. When the ink, cloth and stitch come together you achieve an effect like this. The composition will comprise unique arrangements of surface texture and color.
- The majority of the thread painting is achieved by using a free motion Zig Zag stitch.
- The quilt is quilted and appliquéd at the same time and the quilting is described as ‘contour quilting’
- I have 5 different patterns.
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Painting with thread – Back to the beginning Portraits, drawn to stitch.
A two or three-day class for all levels of experience. Masterclass over 5 days.
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- This is a technique I have adapted. This quilt looks like a painting and I will teach you how to achieve this effect. No long lines of stitching, but the sticking lines are similar to a pencil drawing, small and directional. You will learn basic art and photography techniques on how to achieve a very realistic thread painted image.
- Everybody has style!
Some go for simplicity, others like more detail. You may tend to carefully stitch your image or you may take a more haphazard approach.
Perhaps you have a favorite design element or two.. Also consider your personal stitching style.There are no right or wrong methods. Its all personal choice.For me, drawing with thread is where creative license begins. This is where I begin to move things, change values, construct or deconstruct. It is the start.
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Geraldine the Giraffe, Inspired to stitch.
A two day class for all levels of experience.
This is a new class and I think it’s going to be one of my most popular classes from the comments made on my web page and Social Media. !!
I’ve had this idea for some time. My photos from Kenya were the inspiration and I’m currently working on a large piece in the same genre.
- In this class you will learn a great deal about values and textures.
- This is not a quilt to use up your scrap fabrics. You can see I have carefully chosen specific fabrics for texture and color balance.
- You will learn a great deal about color.
- The stitching is appliquilted. (appliquéd and quilted) at the same time. Free motion thread sketching on the raw edge appliqué.
- You learn a great deal in this class.
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Quoth the Raven Nevermore – Random Precision.
A two day class for all levels of experience.
This work is constructed from throw away pieces. Non perfect textiles. I used furnishing fabric, hand printed illustrations and my own drawing.
- There is a precision to this piece despite the fact that its made from scraps.
- Each student will bring their own fabrics and create their own special piece.
- Its between categories and if you want to push the limits of your experience this is the class for you.
- As a surface it lends itself to extensive reworking.
Requiem to the Elephant – Inspired to stitch – Capture and Create.
A one day class for all levels of experience.
Use an image from you camera capture and learn to convert it to a line drawing.
The image is subtle, and its a balance of the delicacy of the thread and palette.
- I will teach you creative thread sketching.
- Learn how to use your computer to prepare the image.
- Talk about basic art techniques.
- Learn the technique of contour quilting. You may not complete the quilting in one day, but if you take a two day class you will finish the quilt.
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The House of Whimsy.
A three to five day class.
Masterclass.
It’s a fun quilt where you can use you imagination and add your own whimsical interpretation.
You will complete the entire quilt and learn at least 6 different techniques.
- Illustrative raw edge appliqué.
- Fabric illustration (you will create your own fabric)
- Angelic Applique using wool felt.
- Perfect piecing.
- Dimensional applique.
- Wooow Quilting.
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Sockittome.
Illustrative applique.
This class was developed as an online exercise. Choose a subject from the three I suggested and of course, up came the socks.
You don’t have to do socks, but on the other hand, they are just super. This is a class where you trace an image, (or provide your own) and you color in the image to create your own fabric.
The feather is another altenative.
- You tell me you can’t draw, well in reality all you have to do is to trace a picture, color it and then quilt it.
- Then we look at some very different quilting.
The woman, inspired to stitch.
This is a one day class for all levels of experience.
This is a one day class for all levels of experience.
It looks difficult, but it’s deceptively easy and takes your free motion quilting to another level. It is indeed a one day class and you will complete the woman and get wonderful advice on the background quilting.
I will have 4 patterns for you to choose from but the requirements list is the same for each pattern.
This project looks wonderful on re-purposed fabric. I used an old cotton table cloth for the background. I enhanced the embroidery in the original fabric as a feature and added a few ‘extra’s’. It’s just plain different and looks spectacular.
The Poppy. – freedom in design and applique
2 day class for all levels of experience.
Contact us if you need to know more information.
This is a one block quilt where you can design your own one block or use my pattern.
- We will explore design and I will help you create your own simple block.
- Colors and texture value are really important in this class. We will study the theory of color harmonies, the basic technique for combining colors using the basic color chords based on the color wheel.
- Simple machine applique.
- This class can be taught online.
The Market – Inspired to stitch, Creative applique.
3 day class for all levels of experience.
This quilt is appliquied, freemotion quilted, illustrated and color combined.
There are so many techniques in the quilt to teach you how to create an art piece in thread and fabric.
This quilt looks like a painting and I will teach you how to achieve this effect.
- Techniques you will learn.
- fabric illustration.
- machine applique.
- Color creativity.
- Contact us for further information.
Photography for Quilters.
Half day class for all levels of experience.
Hello Pam, I just love your classes 3 & 5. Would love to opportunity to participate. Do you have any of this classes operating? Looking forward to hearing of your new teaching in Mexico.
Hi Pam,
I am interested in taking your thread painting class for protraits. Do you have a class schedule posted somewhere? Thanks. I love your work.
Jan
Pam,
Your work is amazing! Do you have a class schedule posted anywhere??? I would love to take one of your classes…
–Patty
Patty, where are you in the world and I will direct you.
Hi Pam,
I’m wondering if you’d be interested in teaching a workshop for the Hudson River Valley Art Workshops in 2017. See our website for more information about our venue. I look forward to hearing from you.
Kim LaPolla
Kim I hope Pam can come to Hudson Valley. I always miss getting into Pam’s classes at Houston, this year inckuded.
would be interested in learning your class schedule and cost
I’m really astonished by your works. I’ll begin to follow you and your exibition. There’s a possibiliti you can come in Italy in the future ? Your phantasie and ixpiration make me so happy, I’m a quilter who works with passion, lot of passion. I’m waiting for next news about you and send my “Ciao, ciao!!”
Tullia Ferrero
Roma Italia
Tulia, maybe one day. But I have a large work to finish.
Maybe one day Tullia. I have been there but not to teach.
Pam, I am taking your portrait class at Empty spools in April. I do not see an email address on the website and wish to send you the pictures I am considering for that class. How must I do that?
Thanks,
Judy Hoxie
Hello Judy, send them to pamholland3@mac.com
Hi Pam –
I’m taking your Chalk and Cheesecloth class at Houston in Nov. In the supply list it says to contact you for clarification on the fusible web. I don’t have anything that would be a yard square in a single piece, but I assume it’s okay to have it in multiple pieces since I don’t think I’ve ever seen it that wide. I have package of Wonder Under 805R that is 15″ x 2 yds. That’s not quite a yard square, but would it be sufficient? I also have a large roll of 12″ Steam-a-Seam 2 Lite so I could cut a 3 yd piece of that.
Also, the supply list specifies a pack of 10/8 Microtex needles. Should that be 60/8?
Thanks!
Nancy
Dear Pam,
my pleasure met you in the Dubai on 08/10/2016 in the shop classic quilt , hopefully very soon meet you again and attend your work shop , you are amazing.
Maryam
Pam, i am takinghT your class in Houston Chalk and Cheescloth, your supplies called for pkg 10/8 Schmetz Microtex needles, and I have not been able to find them, could you tell me where I am able to find those. Thanks, and I am looking forward to your class.
Pam, I took your cat Thread Painting class in Houston. Could you remind me which machine settings were used? Thanks!
We didn’t drop the feed dogs and you leave the machine on ordinary settings… if you do a zig zag…. and to be honest I don’t usually do that on the cat, it was 1.5 stitch width and 1.5 stitch length.
Hi Pam, I would love to take a class but can’t find a schedule anywhere. Will you be teaching in Australia anytime sooon. I live in the Northern Rivers area of N.S.W. Thank you. Pip Taylor
I will only be teaching at Quilt Encounter in South Australia in July. You can find it on the Quilting Guild of SA web site.
Pam,
I would love to take your thread painting portrait course or any thread painting course. I know you will be at Hudson River valley art workshop in April. Due to prior commitment I won’t be able to take that one. Are you teaching in the US at any other times during the year?
I will be teaching a one day class at Houston. But the Hudson River one is the only masterclass.
hI Pam
I would like to host a class during your time in New York Please let me know if that is still possible
I live in Mount Vernon, New York, very close to New York City. We have a studio where we have classes, I have also been asked by my quilt club to find out if you would be interested in doing a classs while you are on this side of the world.
I can be reached at mamagdolls@msn.com
Hope there is still time to set up a class
Pam, will you be in the Dallas Fort Worth area in 2017? Would love to take a class.
No, sorry. not this year.
Hi Pam,
You have visited the SEWQ In Kennewick, WA several years ago. We are interested to know if you will be traveling this way in teaching a class and having a program at our meeting. Please email me at email below.
Take care,
Jeanna
Jeanna, can you send me a personal email. pamholland3@mac.com your email didn’t come through
Hello Pam and others…I was wondering if you have a suggested list of aurifil thread colors for skin and eye colors? Hazel, blue eye color suggestions? How about various skin colors? Thanks
Nancy Caro
Nancy, can you email me at Pamholland3@mac.com and I will talk you through it.
Hello Pam been following you on this extensive journey you’re on. Just wanted to remind you about this when you have a break. Thanks again
Nancy
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Pam i tried to take your class in Houston last year on Geraldine the giraffe unfortunately I did get in. I love this and want to know if you sale this pattern. Are you teaching it this year?
Hi Pam!
Do you ever teach classes in or around Denver? Would love to make Geraldine Giraffe! I live in a small town in the Rockies so Denver is the closest big city. Do you sell kits?
Thank you! Your work is beautiful!
Sue
Hi Pam,
Thank you for a very enjoyable workshop at Longford this weekend. A great time had by all even if we didn’t get Geraldine finished. Would love to do some more class with you in the future. Please keep me posted.
Hello Pam
I so wanted to take you Geraldine the Giraffe class in Paducah, can you please let me know if you have any cancelations
I understand it is currently SOLD OUT
Thanks, us Pam’s need to stick together 😉🌻👍
When is the next Geraldine class near Adrlaide?
Are you going to do any classes in the UK, I would love to come to one.
Thanks
Sarah
Not in 2018, maybe 2019 Sarah
Hi Pam, Southeastern Washington quilters would love to have you come for a class and program. When?
Hello Pam. I love your work. You are such an inspiration to all of us aspiring quilt artists and thread painters and am wondering if you come to Canada, BC in particular, or do you have a series of online classes/workshops your devoted followers could access? I look forward to your reply. Thank you again.
We’re working on it Taylor.
I am in the Rose City Quilters in Palmerston North,NZ.. Just saw some half finished Geraldines that some ladies in our guild made. They are wonderful and how did I not know about this class??? I am so very sorry that I missed it. Hope the pattern will be out soon. I am moving back to the States soon and hope that you will be doing this class in the Reno, NV area. Cheers. Jay
Hi Pam, do you have a video tutorial of Geraldine for sale? She is amazing?
No sorry.
Are you doing any Portrait or Cat classes in the US in 2019? Where can I find your teaching schedule. Thanks.
Pam, I took your thread painting class in Houston ( you had your custom made piano Key shoes on in class).
I wanted to enter my finished “Wolf” in a quilt show and wanted your permission to show it.
Thanks,
Mona Lagan
5202 Canadian Ave.
Midland, TX. 79707
Mlagan@btaoil.com
Of course Mona.
I am soooo impressed with your work and the variety of classes you teach. I think you would add a pazzas to the Art Symposium or the Quilters Affair (Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show) both in the artsy town of Sisters, Oregon. Look into it.
Also thank you for your generous comment on my Houston piece “The Provider”.
How do I contact you to ask about conducting a workshop in the Annapolis, MD area?
Thanks.
Nancy Somers
Just send me an email
Is your Geranium, a Giraffe pattern still available? Saw it in a quilt show and love it!
Pam, Inam in Florida and would love to take one of your classes. Do you ever hold classes here?
I have done some there but if you group wishes to send me a request I can consider it.
Your work is amazing. Where can I find a list of your classes. I live in Ohio, but could visit my brother in Dallas .
Just contact me and I will send you a list,.
Hi Pam, you are amazing I definitely want to do your classes I’m in Sth Australia how when and where regards Mandy xxx
Pam I would like to talk to you about classes
Do you have a 2020 workshop schedule available? I am interested in taking future classes with you, Pam.
Email me and I will send it to you pamholland3@mac.com
Hi Pam, where are you located? I want to do some classes, but I live in Australia.
Gillian, I’m in Adelaide.
Hi Pam, How will I know when you are back running classes in Australia? Do you run classes in each state, or mainly in Adelaide? Would love to be able to do a class with you. I’m a Textile Teacher in NSW. Gillian
Gillian, I have one scheduled for August through the Quilters Guild and with the possibility of doing one at Quilt Encounter if I’m still here.
Thanks, Pam. I have applied for the August workshop. Hope it happens! Gillian
Can you send me an email at pamholland3@mac.com then I can translate your email
Hi Pam
OK so I have now invested in a refurbished ipad so I can use it for design. I have installed Photoshop Sketch, Is this going to be an on line class?
Yes, I’m working on it right now… life has been a bit hectic lately.
Yes, I’m working on it right now, it’s been a bit hectic lately.
Hi Pam, I would love to do any f your online classes. How do i know what available to take and to register? I do not have an iPad but I do have a laptop with Windows.
Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, you need an Ipad or any kind of tablet that you can draw on.
Hello, I would be interested in taking your online classes. Where can I register? Thank you.
I Bertie, I’m not doing online classes at the moment, just too busy with my Aussie ones until next year.
W here in Oz are you working ? I am in N SW South Coast. Would love to try … Whimsy of Wandering – quilting illustration – what is the cost? How do we find it online? Thanks
Ros, I’m not doing online classes at the moment. sorry.
Hello Pam, your work is just wonderful. I sadly missed out on a workshop with you at Urunga due to lockdown. Hopefully another chance will come up. In the meantime, thank you for sharing your beautiful thoughts and stories through thread.
I hope so too Penny.
I am a program co-chair for a guild near Milwaukee, WI. I would love to know if you do Zoom Lectures for about an hour and what are your fees?
Hello Laurie, can your email me at Pamholland3@mac.com so we could discuss it.