crafts
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Creative embroidery
It is quite a long time since my last post, and I can’t really explain why. I have been busy crafting, and this post will be all about embroidery. Just before the pandemic I joined “Creative embroidery”, an association with enthusiastic and creative members. We collaborate with museums in Stockholm, one at a time around…
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Medieval embroidery, a Viking exhibition and a few new things from the workshop
This summer I visited Uppsala cathedral, a magnificent church from the 16th century. I have wanted to go there for a long time, not just for the cathedral itself, but it hosts one of the finest collections of medieval embroidery in Sweden. Most of the embroidery has religious motifs but there are also beautiful floral…
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Tablet weaving and other nice things
It has been a long time since my last post. I can’t say that I am short of time quite the opposite. Like many people during this pandemic, I spend most of my time at home and meet few people in real life. Thanks to Zoom and Google meet I am not isolated altogether. So…
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Craftmaking in a TROUBLED TIME
The last months have been like nothing else in our lives, with a raging pandemic that affects the whole world. In a way, it connects us all in a new way, at the same time as we are more isolated than ever before, with lock-downs and travel restrictions. Although Sweden has been considered to be…
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From the bench in March
In this very special time with Coronavirus epidemic at least one thing is positive: when you have better stay indoors you have plenty of time for crafts. I walk every day in my wonderful forest along the lake Mälaren. It is not spring yet but there is no snow and the moss is beautiful. In…
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Textile exclusively
This blog post will be about textile exclusively. In my world, there is so much interesting going on about textile so I have to tell you. It seems that textile art is becoming gradually more recognized as important and relevant, at least from my horizon here in Stockholm. Märta Måås-Fjetterström was one of the most…
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October textile and jewellery
Autumn has arrived early this year with lots of rain and the leaves are already falling off after an outburst of autumn colours. Time for walks in parks in Stockholm and time for indoor activities like craft making! One of the last days in September I went with a friend to the county of Dalarna…
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Back to Vinterviken, creative embroidery and a little webshop
Now in September, I had another weekend at Vinterviken gardens. Exciting to show my jewellery and nice company with the shopkeepers at the craft shop who run the craft shop as volunteers. Marie Oredsson is a fine potter and textile artist, take a look at her website. www.marieoredsson.se I sold just a few jewels but it…
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Late summer
Summer months pass quickly and now it is already August. Late summer. In July I visited the beautiful county “Värmland” in the west of Sweden. Together with four very dear old friends (in fact from my teens) we hired a small cottage for a few days. Värmland is a quintessential Swedish county with forests, open…
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Midsummer thoughts
There have been midsummer celebrations, that as usual we have shared with friends in the Stockholm archipelago. My grown-up children have spent all their childhood midsummers there and we keep up with the tradition. Lots of food and people around a big table in the light summer night. I can’t think of a more beautiful…
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