Day of Roses

Yesterday it was the Day of Roses at the Botanical Garden. There was guided walks in the Rose Garden and lectures for everyone that is interested in gardening in general and roses in particular.



The Swedish Embroiderers Guild was invited to participate. We had a small display with embroideries with roses and some information about the guild.





Here are three pieces I made for this event. It's a bit of an experiment actually. I used paper napkins with roses on them and bondaweb. The napkins where fused on to linen fabric. Then I stitched bugs and ladybirds.













Have a great week!

Cyber Fyber!

Today is the Day, as in the Day of the Opening of Cyber Fyber. If you haven't found your way over there you'll find all the links to the left. You can easily spend an entire day going through the ATCs and Postcards. I have been admiering art and following links to blogs that are new to me. So much fun! :-)

Last summer when Susan visited Sweden she invited me to be a part of The Invitational Art Exhibition. I am very excited to be part of this great event! Thank you Susan for the invite and for all the work you have done to make this happen. You are a star!

I have two pieces of work in the show. This is the first one, called "Looking Closely".



This is the second piece, called "Far Away".



Both of them are made of silkfabric that I handpainted and neddlefelted with wool. All the stitching is made by hand. Size: 35 x 25 cm or 14 x 10 inches.

Cyber Fyber Postcard

I was going to make a postcard for The Cyber Fyber Exhibition. I ended up making four of them. Now I can't decide which postcard to send to Susan.

My solution to this problem, of course, is to let you vote for which postcard I should send. Leave a comment on this post before midnight on Wednesday this week and tell me which PC you think I should send. I'll draw a winner who will get... Yes, your right, a postcard!

Cyber Fyber

I decided to swap an ATC and a Postcard with Susan over at the Cyber Fyber Exhibition.


I finished the ATCs (one for Susan, three for the swap)last weekend, I'll try to finish the postcard in a day or two.





I got Susans' Postcard and ATC today. Both of them are gorgeous! Thank you Susan!

Saturday night is Artnight!

The last Saturday in September is Artnight in the area where I (still, for a few more days) live. Every year artists open there studios for the public, Galleries and Museums are open, and artists show their work in every possible place. Churches, restaurants, shops, all over...

It opens at 6 pm and is open until 1 am. People go from place to place to look at art. There's live music, dance performances and storyteller´s taking you ghosthunting. I usually have a wonderful time!

The starting point for the evening is the Cityhall. Everyone that's participating in the event has one piece of work exhibited there. People go there to see what's on show and to get a map so they can find all the different places.

This is the piece I have at the Cityhall, remember it?. I handed it in the other day. Tonight there's a party for all the exhibiting artists. We get to see each others work and have a chance to cache up with friends. I always feel ambivalent about seeing my work when someone else has put the show together. Maybe I'm being a control freak, but what if I hate the way they show it?!

Good News!

Remember my secret project? I've showed you some sneak peaks before, here and here. I didn't want to show the whole piece because I was going to enter it at a juried show. Well, I got in! About 50 pieces where selected out of over 100 entries. I'm very happy! The opening is on Sunday, the 17th. Unfortunately I won't be able to make it, but I'll try to see the show later this summer. It's open until 9th September.

The show is at a place called Huseby Bruk. The name of the show is "Linnaeus Botanical Embroidery". Carl Linnaeus or Carl von Linné was a great Swedish scientist, he's known as the Father of Taxonomy. This year we celebrate that he was born 300 years ago. There are plenty of exhibitions about Linnaeus life and work all over the country. Books are being published and there's articles, plays, TV shows, you name it.


This is my embroidery. The background is made out of small pieces of fabric that I fuse together with Bondaweb. The size is 30cm x 33cm. I called it "To See the Details in the Big Picture, and the Big Picture in the Details". I was trying to create an image that would give the viewer a feeling of looking down on a landscape from above and see fields, woods and lakes.

Beautiful Moments

My localgroup is having a spring exhibition right now. I'm showing three small embroideries. Two of them I've blogged about before, they're called "Good Times" and "Happy Days". The third one I finished just before the opening. It's called "Beautiful Moments".

I really like making up names for my pieces. Sometimes my starting point is a word, a line or a quote. At other times I don't have a name until it's finished.


The three background pieces where my first attempts at needlefelting. I'm really falling in love with this technique. As some of you might remember I couldn't make up my mind whether to buy an embellisher or not, so I took a time out and I thought I'd wait until after the summer to decide. Well, it's not like I'm not thinking about it... The last couple of weeks has been very rainy and cold here in Sweden. If the weather doesn't get better soon someone might go shopping...

Women by the Water

I belong to Täcklebo Broderiakademi, which is the swedish equivalent to The Embroiderers Guild. My localgroup usually choose a theme to work with. Last autumn the theme was "women". Now we're going to show our pictures to the public. The exhibition opens tomorrow and here is the piece I'm showing.




I call it "Women by the Water". The fabric is cotton and linen that I tie-dyed last summer. I wanted my picture to be about women being active and doing things for themselfs.

Size: 44 cm x 48 cm