More Fire

It has been an extremly busy autumn over here and I have hardly been able to get any stitching done at all. Here is a piece I started in September when I went to Austria to take a workshop for Sara. This week I finally managed to find some time to finish it.

This piece is called Fire.
Size: 17cm x 27cm.

Painting silk

Last weekend I took a silkpainting class. Silk is an amazing fiber.

I've tried painting on silk once or twice before and I really wanted to learn some more. I loose my sense of time and space when I paint. Very relaxing!

Have a nice weekend!

International Day of Felt

The Swedish Embroiderers' Guild in Stockholm had a meeting yesterday to celebrate The International Day of Felt. I'm sure you have all heard about FeltUnited and The International Day of Felt.
Yesterday we showed needlefelting by hand and with an embellisher. 27 ladies turned up and did a great job!

























We were also able to show a collection of traditional swedish embroideries. They were made in the 18th and 19th century. The cusions covers are made in wool. Thank you HV for opening your collection for us!






I was busy teaching people how to work with the embellisher all day. So much fun! At the end of the afternoon I managed to make a few stitches on a piece of wool. When I took the workshop for Sara last week she showed us how to make faces. This is a little brooch I made.

Frosty and White

Frosty and White describes the weather in Stockholm for the last week but it is also the name of the workshop I took yesterday. First we were tought how to make origami boxes out of paper and then we made a tiny embroidery to decorate the top of the box.


This is my little piece. Not sure I'll but it on a box. Maybe I'll save it until later and use it for something else.

Size: 6cm x 6cm

My funny Valentine...

...Yet you're my favorite work of art.



Maybe not my favorite work of art but nevermind. I went to a Guild meeting yesterday. Since it was Valentine's Day we made heart shaped broches in traditional swedish style. As you all know I don't really do traditional embroidery but I love looking at it. I find it very inspiring. For the stitching I used variegated cotton thread but in traditional work you use wool and flax thread.

Something Old, Something New...

Yesterday I went to a workshop with Petter Hellsing. He is a swedish fiber artist. Right now he's showing his work at the Pricked: Extreme Embroidery exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York.

The workshop was about recycling old traditional embroideries and turning them into contemporary pieces. Petter brought a huge pile of handstitched tablecloth that he'd bought at garagesales and thrift shops. We all got to pick a piece and then we added our own stitching to it. The piece I chose was a tiny white tablecloth with a lace border. The inspiration for the birds came from one of Petters pieces that had pictures of animals on it.


I really enjoyed the workshop and had a great time!

Back from a glorious weekend!

This weekend I took a workshop for Alex and Julia Caprara that run the Opus school of Textile Art. The workshop was called "EXPLORING PERSONAL CREATIVITY".

Imagine this. 14 crazy embroidery ladies in a 250 year old farm house for three days. Add 10 minutes walking distance to the beach! Great food and wine! Sunshine! And the most important thing of all, excellent tutors! Doesn't it sound like fun?

And this is what came out of it!


These are some of the drawings and paintings I did. The big fabric piece is just pined together. I'm still working on the design.

We also painted on fabric with acrylic paint.














We used clay to make 3D forms.

Everyone who took the workshop was invited to show their finished pieces at an exhibition in Gothenburg in August. So now Sara and I better get to work.