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Published 6. juni 2015

Two more books finished

Here are two more of my textile books for Ineke Berlyn’s course. I’ve had so much fun making them.

This first is my version of Book of Tea. Filled with quotes about tea, laces and stitching. With leather cover and closed with a key.
Enjoy!

page 1

page 2 and 3

page 4 and 5

page 6 and 7

page 8 and 9

page 10 and 11

and page 12

The next is «Welkome to my Garden»

The cover is made of balsa-wood, painted like a flower garden with a fence, made of those sticks you stir your coffe with. The fabrics are mostly snow-dyed, as well as the
thread I used for hand-stitching.

page 1

page 2 and 3

page 4 and 5

page 6 and 7

page 8 and 9

page 10 and 11

page 12

Published 31. mai 2015

Yellow Tulips

We have just revealed our new challenge on Latitudequilts, and this is my contribution. Our challenge this time is Art Deco.

Tulips are such elegant flowers, simple in shapes and in so many
wonderful colours. And since Art Deco is very simplified, it was a
perfect match for my personal challenge, tulips. Looking through images
from my garden, I settled on the one I used in an earlier challenge,
LOVE, and used it as a template for raw edge applique, with hand dyed
cotton.
As a background, I used something that reminded me of
radioes from the 1930s, freehand cut and pieced commersial fabrics, on
top of pale green linen.

The quilting in the background is simply straight lines, the tulips are free hand machinequilted, with French knots.
I am also working on my last textile book with Ineke Berlyn, I’ll show you as soon as it is finished.

Published 30. april 2015

My scroll is finished

I promished to show you my scroll-book when it was finished, and here it is:

It is based on my fascination for Medieval Norway, and the king you see at the start of the scroll, Magnus VI Haakonsson, king of Norway 1263-1280. Among other things, he buildt the two structures you can get a glimpse of, in Bergen and Tunsberg. But most of all he collected the different laws in Norway into one, «Landsloven av 1274», parts of which exists in our present legislation.

This is the left part of the scroll:

and the right:

another close up

I have also finished another textile book for Ineke Berlyn, which I will show you next time.

Thank you for watching.

Published 21. april 2015

My favorite spring flowers

I just love this time of the year, when everything comes to life again. Just now my Anemone Blanda is brightening up my front garden

Just when the crocus are finished blooming, this comes

It is so wonderful to be greeted by this after a day at work. It is so refreshing. And next, my tulips are getting ready for warmer weather

I am also working on two textile books, one with Ineke Berlyn (sorry, no pictures), and a scroll book with Juliette Eckel. This is some early photoes of it: first samples and next a rough layout. Next time I will show it finished (hopefully)…

Published 12. april 2015

Just a short update

I have started on my next textile book for Ineke Berlyn’s workshop. Today I have painted with thickened Procion MX for the background fabric, and just now, I’m waiting for it to dry a bit before I print some more on it.

I have also on the line some pieces of fabric treated with BubbleJet solution for printing text for this book.

And while I was working, I also made another little piece,
with a bit more painting, just for fun. It may be useful some
day…

I will keep you updated.

Published 6. april 2015

Playing and having fun.

The last weeks, I’ve been playing in my new Finish Me sketchbook. Just painting, cutting, printing, sewing, with no plan at all. One page led to another, but I must admit, it has been very fun. Here are some of the pages. They are work in progress, I may still add more, put in more stitching etc.

I have done very little quilting lately, so I decided to use some of this weekend to practise. I needed a project, and to do it simly, I just followed DMTV and Linda Kemshall and made my own copy of the Iris-quilt. Now I just binding and some embellishment, and I’ve got myself a new nice bit of colour on the wall.

Thanks for visiting my page.

Published 22. mars 2015

Book 3 with Ineke

I have just finished my book 3 in Ineke Berlyn’s Art Textile Books. I used the circle as inspiration, it has 36 pages, rusted and bleached fabrics, cotton and linen, and mostly hand-quilted/embroidered. Here are pictures of some of the pages:

The front

the back

and some of the pages

Thanks for dropping by.

Published 20. mars 2015

More tulips

As I said in my last post, I love tulips. And have just made a zig-zag book inspired by the tulips in my garden. This is what it looks like closed

The top three pages

and the last three pages

And here are the book in its full length:

Thanks for dropping by.

Published 8. mars 2015

Tulips in Green

We have had a new reveal at Latitudequilts, and my contribution this time was «Tulips in Green».
This year we have a new set of rules. We are going to make a series of 4 quilt, each choosing their own theme, and I chose Tulips. The size has changed as well, maximum of 24 by 17 and minimum of 20 by 15 inches, but each member can choose the exact size, and orientation

And, each one will have an additional challenge as well, a design principle or style, and the first one was green.

I love tulips. They have been blooming here in Bergen, Norway since the
spring of 1597. There even is a tulip thart only exist in Norway, named
Tulip norvegica. So my choise was rather natural. I am so fascinated by
the variety in the shapes of the flowers, they are so elegant.

And some close-ups:

Published 5. februar 2015

Fabric dying

January has been filled with fabric dying. I signed in on Elizabeth Bartons’s Basic Dying for Quiltmakers. It had been a while since I last hand-dyed fabris, so I just thought to get a repetition. Well here are the result. First several graditions: