Pam Holland Designs and Productions

Challenge block No 1.

No Podcast tonight...

It's a grey day today... A friend of ours lost her fight for life after a long struggle and I just don't feel like talking much at the moment..... so I'm going in to watch TV and get lost in a movie.

I completed the illustration for my challenge during the day, the Design is in the detail.

I can't quilt it yet because I forgot that I lent my monofilament thread to my friend.

It will be quilted on every drawn line.

Is this the block I will use?

This is the little drawing I did yesterday when I walked around the Rocks and Circular Key in Sydney.

Will I use this for my challenge...  The Design is in the detail.

Nice to be home in the shed, but there has been a lot of damage to the garden in the storms.

Textures and colors

A Christmas tree made of disposable pop bottles.

Pavement of wood

 

The sandstone in the rocks.

 

Reflections of sun on windows on the building opposite

Curves

stripes

Even bare bodies

People in windows and vacant chairs

 

Columns

Colours

Things to see in Sydney.

I can't believe that I've spent an entire day without my camera at my side.

I visited friends today and I knew the photo opportunities would be limited so I left it at the hotel because I had to carry quilts on the train.

I leave Sydney for home tomorrow and the weekend is pretty well scheduled.

Of course I have to complete my "Devil is in the Detail" quilt for this week. It must be done by midnight Sunday.

That's the rules.... but then again I guess rules are made to be bent....

I've seen some wonderful things here in Sydney. The art gallery of course, but I came upon a Unicef display yesterday and it was photo journalism of 6 year old children around the world and they have illustrated how they see themselves. The concept would make wonderful textile art.

 

I was very moved by the pictures.

I'm going to try the idea with my small grandies... (I don't think it will work on the uni going ones or the 16 year old :ouuuuu ones" but Miss Tilly sees herself in a wonderful light and Kodi has a fabulous  sense of worth.

New Ideas

I think I slept for 10 hours last night.

I woke up and thought "I should be working in the shed", then turned over and went back to sleep.!!!! what a luxury.

I did a few hours filming this morning, then changed into the shorts and t's and walked up to the Art gallery of NSW.

My main objective was to see the exhibition Garden and Cosmos.

The 17th, - 19th century paintings reveal the palaces, courtiers and families of the Jodhpurs rulers and their luxurious court life, with their glorious gardens in desert palaces. The detail was amazing.

Great day.

This evening I went to see the show Mamma Mia.... it was wonderful, I found myself smiling through the whole program.

New blog.

The new blog has begun

The design is in the detail.
A year of inspiration

Seagull goes for Chinese.

Hmm, a bit salty and slippery but I think I can get it down

There you go, now it's curling round the beak, eek is it alive?!!!

 

Hang on, I'll use the wings for balance and slurp it down...!!

That darn napkin is getting caught on my pins

 

So I'll flick it like a whip and see if it goes down that way

AAH I love a bit of Chinese every now and then but it's a bit sloppy round the beak

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

Maya Angelou

The Design is in the detail.

What do  3 friends do when they get together.

On the whole, ‘lunch’ is an important part of the experience.
Laughter and camaraderie travel behind.

We had dueling cameras, you can tell we all blog.!!!!

and if you are a designer and quilter you can find a pattern in almost anything, including the fluff residue of your coffee.

There was a rather large water dragon trying to get through the door of the restaurant to find the dragon he saw as a reflection in the glass.

Poor thing, made it through the door twice only to find the reflection had disappeared.

He was getting hot under the collar, his chest turned red as he karate kicked the intruder in his territory....

We were at the Art Gallery in Brisbane and delightful images captured our imagination.

Texture, design. I wish I could take my students to the Gallery sometime.You can learn so much from looking at the images presented.

Friend Carolyn and I have decided on a challenge. We will present each other with a 'detail' or 'texture' design every week for a year. 

"The Design is in the detail"

I will do mine on the plane tomorrow....I wonder if we should decide on a size considering it it a weekly project?

Well we'll trial a 6" block and sometimes we'll have to do 12" blocks to balance.

Will we covert each others blocks?, there might have to be flexible rules for this challenge. We might make them up as we go along.

BUT..... there will need to be consistency BUT, we're laughing about it already...!!!

Sunday will be the day, the day we reveal... Carolyn has just said we have to have right up till midnight.!!!!

We'll both set up a separate blog, that links to this one....!!!

It's exciting and fun.

Morning begins with quiet anticipation. I'm looking forward to being with special friends, entertaining new ideas and at the end of the day adding it's experiences to the 'wonderful' box

Tri parrots.

 

 

I took a lot of photos of these birds, they have such character.

I slept with my door and window open and woke to find two of them on my pillow... a bit scary to say the least.

I said. 'Hi' in parrot talk. and they hung around for another 10 minutes or so.

I concentrated on taking images of textures today.

Carolyn and I have undertaken to complete a small design from this trip, each week for the next year... we'll keep you in tough with the progress.

The magic of the rainforest.

Photo Gallery.

A delightful day.

It dawned quite hot and humid and after breakfast we made our way down the coast to Mt Tamborine.

The scenery is spectacular, the green fields are fringed with purple jacarandas and the occasional stand of trees with bright red flowers...

The road wound high into the mountains, the stands of rain forest increased and the air became cooler.
We had lunch at a Polish restaurant overlooking the valley. The breeze was warm but refreshing and the scenery spectacular. We watched as hang gliders gently soared through hot air to the valley below, their wingspan slicing the air like giant birds slowly twisting and turning on invisible thermal supports.

We stopped for a few more photo ops... a quaint church, a fence fringed with agapanthus, a lichen covered fence post and the ever present bird life.

Late afternoon found us at O’Rileys Resort in the Lamington National Park. 

 This is a wild parrot who came and sat on my head when I was standing on my balcony.

It wasn’t long before we were walking with camera at the ready through the dense rain forest.
High in the canopy the late afternoon sun sent orange shafts of light to pin point a chosen piece of the forest. The bird calls echoed across the valley and were made more intense by being captured amongst the trees.

Ferns with new leaves were the main subject of my camera and the time flew by.

We wanted to film the sunset and stood quietly with many of the other residents watching the magnificence of nature produce a painting in front of our eyes.

It’s 2.30 am right now. It’s quiet, dark and brooding. The moon is thin and waning an sends a soft light across the valley.
There isn’t a breath of air even though we are situated on top of a mountain.
It’s a magical place.

We have a bird walk early in the morning so I need to go back to bed to be up in time...!!!