Sunday Morning

Good Morning! I'm sitting here with my morning coffee looking out at a perfect bright blue sky. It's amazing to see all the colours.

I'm working on a piece that is going to be in the Cyber Fyber Exhibition in January. Can't show you yet... I'm very happy to be part of this wonderful event.

The TIF Challenge this month is to show what our working space looks like. I did that a few weeks ago. It still looks the same, just a little bit more messy, so I won't post any more pics.

Time to get a refill and get some stitching done. The days are getting shorter and I find it hard to work at night even though I have a great lamp. The colours looks different and I'm thinking maybe I should have my eyes checked.

Have a great week!

TIF September

The September TIF challenge was lists. This is what my lists look like. I write things down on Post-it Notes and put them all over the place.

Sorry...

... for being somewhere else, doing something else. I guess it's called life. I'll be back soon.

About the TIF challenge this month. What is balance to you? Do you maintain a balanced life? How do you balance aspects of your life? That is the challenge this month - balance. That is the challenge of the month for me - Balance. LOL! Don't think I'll have the time stitching it though, to busy living it.

TIF July

This is my piece for the July TIF Challenge. The Challenge for July was What is it to be at the half way mark?

In June I turned 40. It's been great so far but I do feel like I'm at a half way mark. Not that you can ever know about these things but statistically... Anyway, to celebrate I went away for a few days. I have already shown you a lot of pics from the trip in previous posts. One of the many beautiful things I saw was poppy fields. That's the inspiration for this embroidery.



Size 28cm x 32cm

I'm getting ready for the Symposium. It starts on Tuesday next week. There will be plenty of pics. Promise!

Have a great weekend!

TIF June

The TIF challenge this month was to think about stories that are and stories that are possible.

Sharone wrote Or it is possibly more correct to say that stashes are full of stories. The interesting thing for textile practitoners is that these materials can take on another story. They can be made into something new and take on other meanings in someones life.

In the beginning of this month I got a wonderful gift from Jude. Thanks Jude!:-) After reading what Sharon wrote I decided to use some of the scraps Jude send me for this months challenge.

In the swedish language the word for story is the same as the word for history. I started browsing sites about historical buildings etc for inspiration. Those of you that read Judes blog knows that she has a lot of lions on her quilts. I took a closer look at the lions on the Coat of Arms of Sweden. I found an old Coat of Arms that looked like this. A yellow lion on a blue background with diagonal stripes.

Below you can see my interpretation.



Have a great Sunday!

TIF May

This months TIF challenge is "What do you call yourself and why?" I could go on and on and on... But I decided to keep it simple. Less is more! I agree with Sharon that it's important that we find the words to talk about what we do. At the same time I think that when you define yourself you also put up boundaries so you need to be very careful with the words you chose.

The most important thing for me is that I have a sense of where I'm going. The reasons I work visually is that it allows me to express something that is beyond words, at least for me.


This is the piece I have done for this months challenge.
"Beyond Words"
Silk and wool that I punched together and stitched by hand.
Size 15 x 13 cm

TIF April

This is my piece for the TIF challenge this month. You can read a little bit about how I made the background here.


This month I decided to follow the colourscheme. Worked out pretty well except for the red, blue and yellow... and orange... Guess I have to face the fact. I didn't follow the colourscheme after all. Sigh... Sorry! I promise I'll try to do better next month.

Size 28 x 32 cm

TIF April

I finally got started on my TIF challenge for this month. This months challenge is How do you see change? The three previous months I've done the concept. I haven't followed any of the colourschemes yet so I decided to give it a try.

This is the colourscheme

I started of by looking through my stash. I don't have a lot of brown fabrics but I did find a few. Then I cut different fabrics into small pieces, about 5x5 cm. After that I used bondaweb to fuse the pieces together into one large piece. Here it is

I was trying to use the colourscheme but I added some red and blue. I had to! It was just too... brown.

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I did it! The last drawing!

Todays drawing of an everyday item for the Take It Further Challenge. This is what you find in the other end of TIF 30.

The TIF challenge this month has been a great challenge for me! Thank you Sharon! I can't wait to see the challenge for April.

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Todays drawing of an everyday item for the Take It Further Challenge. For those of you that wondered about yesterdays drawing. This is a clue :-)

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Todays drawing of an everyday item for the Take It Further Challenge.

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Todays drawing of an everyday item for the Take It Further Challenge.

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Todays drawing of an everyday item for the Take It Further Challenge.

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Todays drawing of an everyday item for the Take It Further Challenge.

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Todays drawing of an everyday item for the Take It Further Challenge.

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Todays drawing of an everyday item for the Take It Further Challenge.

Daffodils are called Easter Lilies in Swedish. Of course I know it's not a lily but it's an old name, dating back at least 200 years.

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Todays drawing of an everyday item for the Take It Further Challenge.

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Forgot to post... Yesterdays drawing of an everyday item for the Take It Further Challenge.

Tulips...

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Todays drawing of an everyday item for the Take It Further Challenge.

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Todays drawing of an everyday item for the Take It Further Challenge.