Unveiling 'Stitched With Promise': Patricia Scholtz's poetic journey through faith and love

STITCHED With PromisePoems of Faith, Love and Becoming took Patricia Lorraine Scholtz back to her younger days.

- TRACY-LYNN RUITERS

To moments when words first became a refuge and imagination was shaped by stories, faith and family.The collection, she described, was deeply rooted in memory with each poem returning her to a specific feeling, season or turning point in her life.

Raised in Bishop Lavis and currently living in Kuilsriver, Scholtz said she had been writing since childhood.

She remembered growing up in a home where language mattered, shaped by parents who loved words and storytelling.

With no television in the house, evenings were spent around the radio, listening to stories that sparked her imagination. She also remembered opening her first library card at the Bishop Lavis Library, calling herself a lifelong “nerd for words”.

“I've written my whole life, but never with the aim of having a book,” Scholtz said.