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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.

gretahusebo

Norwegian artist. Art quilts, bookbinding, booklover, embroidery, knitting.

Continuing on my Slow Stitch 2020 into 2021. Even Continuing on my Slow Stitch 2020 into 2021. Even if this was never ment to have anything to do with the Corvid, I have decided to continue as long as the threat is upon us. #slowstitch #embrodery #project #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
Had a wonderful walk to the beach today. #ringshau Had a wonderful walk to the beach today. #ringshaugstranden #walk #inspiration #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
March challenge. By the water Edge there is an old March challenge. By the water Edge there is an old oak... #essoskogen #oldtree #challenge #quilt #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
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Survived heavy frost,rain and snow #japaneselanter Survived heavy frost,rain and snow #japaneselanterns #winter #seeds #inspirations #nature #garden #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
February challenge #winter #frost #water #wood #tønsberg  #newwork #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
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