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Published 8. april 2022

Spring is here!

It is finally spring although it was snowing yesterday. Luckilly it melted as soon as it fell down. But there is still frost in the ground, the crocuses gives me hope for warmer weather though. These two white beauties surprises me every year.

And these purple with the saffron stamen:

I say no more…

May is approaching and the Calender will be exhibited again. My quilts for the Calender of April are:

The boat is so quiet

Proud in its silence

These words make me think about the Viking grave-mounds and their contet.

And my second entry:

About the wind and colours of spring!

Easter is here, hopefully it will get warmer and soon my garden will be filled with colours like this, giving me new inspiration!

The Calender is going to be exhibited at Nadelwelt, Karlsruhe in Germany, in May and at the Biennale International d’art textile en Beaujolais in France in June.

Until next time….

Published 20. juni 2020

I Love Tulips!

I really love tulips with their many shapes patterns and colours. And May in my garden was filled with tulips. I first fell in love with the flower when I read about the history of tulips and my home town Bergen.

A young Doctor, Henrik Höjer, travelled to the University of Leiden, Holland to take his examen. There he met and befriended Charles de L’Ecluse. When he moved back to Bergen three years later, 1596, he brought with him many bulbs and thus introduced the tulip to Norway. He continued to receive bulbs from Charles de L’Ecluse for years to come.

There even is a tulip that only exist in Norway, named Tulipa norvegica.

So it was natural for me to use tulips as my theme for the May book. I picked up all my tulip stamps and sprayed, printed and draw tulips on a big sheet of paper:

After cutting it up and made a book of it the result is like this:

I have also working on some ideas from my design wall, trying to get together some new quilts. Back on my Dragonfly theme, this first one is a piece of paper used to blot of some printing and painting:

I thought it would be a great background for some machine embroidery, so I bonded it to wadding, and surrounded it with strips of old sari-silk. I have never used paper in my works before, so this is a try and learn. Will the paper hold all the stitching from the machine embroidery? Time will show. It is up on the design wall while I figure out how to proceed.

The next one has been waiting for a year for me to proceed. I tried to bleach the sari strips used, but it didn’t work, so I painted it instead. The dragonfly is free machine stitched, and painted as well. Now I have to deal with the background, what to do next.

As you see, they can end up well or be total failures. Time will show.

I hope you have enjoyed this glipse into my creative life.

Enjoy your summer, keep distance and be safe.

Published 10. august 2016

New name, new home

Finally got my blog up at my own domain name. Things are still being sorted out here, so if something doesn’t work, just leave a comment and let me know.

I’m off to Birmingham in the morning, but will continue getting this place working properly once I come home.

Until then, change your bookmarks to http://www.ghuseboe.com/

Welcome

I love to make things. I like knitting in the evenings, and tending my garden. I love to work with fibres, to colour and shape things. I find great inspiration in older Japanese design, the art of Hiroshige and Hokusai being my favourites. I also dabble a bit with bookmaking, binding my own sketchbooks to play in and fill with my research, as well as making textile books.

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These are my August quilts for Calendar with TexNe These are my August quilts for Calendar with TexNet2, "Between green and blue" 15x15cm, and "The reconciliation of the wind in the forest" 15x32 cm. I have also updated my blog. Se link in the bio 

#texnet2 #calendar #ghuseboe "gretahusebo
Result of yesterdays workshop with Eva Melhus, Eli Result of yesterdays workshop with Eva Melhus, Elisabet Saksen and Turid Tønnessen. #paperlamination #workshop #ghuseboe #gretahusebø
Just out of the dye bath. Natural pigments, coche Just out of the dye  bath. Natural pigments, cochenille,madder, catechu, bluewood and yellowwood. #naturalpigments #dying #colours #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
I have spent the last days rust dying and tryed so I have spent the last days rust dying and tryed some of my hand dyed fabrics as well. Hopefully they will end up in some work… #rustdying #fabrics #preparation #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
It's July and my works for Calender this month are It's July and my works for Calender this month are: "With Yellow Pears", a garden full of roses and swans at the lake. 15x15 cm, printed cotton and organsa, and #Everything should be" like a sunny summers day, 15x15 cmcotton and silk. Our Calender will not be exhibited untill next spring.
It’s peony time again and they Are just beautifu It’s peony time again and they Are just beautiful. The pink one dates from my grandmothers garden,about 90 years ago and the filled dark red my father planted in our garden in the 1960s. They have travelled with me from one garden to the next and are now in my front garden in Tønsberg. The red with yellow center I bought a few years ago. #flowers #peony #garden #history #inspiration #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
Our exhibition Calender is shown in Villefranche-s Our exhibition Calender is shown in Villefranche-sur -Saone these days. This month I give you my works for June: "Like stones in the water" 15x15 cm and «Tall grass». 32×23 cm.
Midsummer
Sun and summer
Blue sky
Lying in the grass, looking up on the sky and sun filtered through the grass. 
#calender #texnet2 #cotton #artquilt #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
Amazing colours, almost black. Love it! #colour #i Amazing colours, almost black. Love it! #colour #iris #flowersinthegarden #inspiration #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
Preparing for new work. Paint is still det. Hopefu Preparing for new work. Paint is still det. Hopefully it will look like these samples (swipe left) when dry. #newwork #paintingcloth #colours #silk #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
Had a wonderful day at the new Munch museum yester Had a wonderful day at the new Munch museum yesterday just as they were mounting a gigantic new sculpture outside, «The mother» by the british artist Tracey Emin. One floor was all about his monumental works. #edwardmunch #munchmuseet #art #painting #inspiration #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
New work #slowstitch #newwork #ghuseboe #gretahus New work  #slowstitch #newwork #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
From yesterdays trip to Verdens Ende -the end of t From yesterdays trip to Verdens Ende -the end of the world- Fascinating to see how ice and sea has formed the land. #verdensende #færder #nature #inspiration #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
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