Pam Holland Designs and Productions

Video Blog 2. Illustration on fabric.

Illustration on fabric

video blog illustration

Illustration

How to shade video is now online.

The how to shade video, is online now

Video.

I've been sorting through the important stuff...

Video

This is the video of the next part of the illustration process.

You may have to wait about 3 minutes for it to buffer. Just go and make a cuppa...

Stained glass window...

This quilt was made after a visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

I took a photo of a 13th century stained glass window... it was small, about 15" square and I wondered if I could  re-create it as a quilt.

I enlarged my photo...

Made a drawing of the original by putting the photo on the light box and tracing it.

The drawing was placed on the light box and then the imaged traced onto fabric...

I colored it with a black pigma pen and colored tsukineko pigment ink pens.

I cut out each individual piece and placed it on black fabric.

Voila, a stained glass window.

I quilted it with YLI smoke mono filament thread. (Actually it was appliqued and quilted at the same time)

I stitched the pieces down with a small invisible  stitch....

A small zig zag. 1.4 stitch width, 1.4 stitch length. size 60/8 "sharp" needle and 50 weight black masterpiece thread in the bobbin.

Cotton batting, (warm and natural)

Instruction sheet No 1.

INSTRUCTION NO 1.

in pages on the right hand side of the blog.

Drawing No 1.

This is an experiment.... I sort of know how it's going to turn out, but then again !!! it could be a flop.

I enlarged my pencil drawing to fit on an A3  size sheet. It's 11" square.

I have a piece of high thread count cream moda fabric that hasn't been washed and I pressed it and placed it over the pattern that was taped to my light box.

I taped the fabric over the paper for better stability.

With a .5 black pigma pen I began to draw the outline of the pattern.

I use a Uni pin pigment ink pen, made by Mitsubishi (It's the pen on the top of the picture)

You can see that at this stage I've just outlined the images... I have two choices... I can color the shading in with thread, or I can do it with pen and just quilt around the outline....

I think I'm going to do the latter.

Page on Ideas

When I give a presentation I talk about threads and things, but it's hard for the participants to remember everything in that short time... so I've added a PDF page on the right hand side of the blog.

Textures...

I've been working on some new classes to teach students to create their own textures.

hen the idea would be to quilt them....!!!!

This is a project on creating some of the textures I've seen as I travel.

Stones, fields from the sky, wrought Iron.

Rivers, Gardens, Roads.

This will be blown up to A3 and then quilted in texture and illustrated with drapplique..... I love the way the texture in the tiles moves and creates depth....

I will give you a demonstration tomorrow.

Selvedge

Now I have the time to go through those special things I purchased...

I purchased several  Selvedge magazines. They were back issues, but full of the most wondrous things to make and view.

The booth captured my imagination it was just wonderful. It was draped with big printed pieces of fabric that I would have loved to have taken home.

I'm always looking for something new, and the booth spoke of wonderful photography, quality, creativity and fabulous design aspect.

I'm kicking myself I didn't buy one of these beautiful scarves... (shown below) then again, the pay isn't too crash hot in Birmingham.

I think a subscription is going to be my birthday present to me....