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. 

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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.

 

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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:

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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:

Then the colour-circle:

 Then some neutrals:

 And, since green is one part of my next challenge for Latitude quilts, I made a gradiation using Sage-green, and put some lace and scrims in as well:

 Then, we got a lot of snow last week, and I decided to do some snow dying. I could not get the colours as bright as they are,

 And, also here, I put in some lace and scrim:

Thanks for reading.

Basic Dyeing for Quiltmakers

Basic Dyeing for Quiltmakers

Published 20. januar 2015

My first scroll-book

This year, I’ve decided to participate in Ineke Berlyn’s Art Textile books online. I like her workshops, I’ve learnt so much from them. So I have just finished my first scroll-book.

 It is made of bits and pieces from my stash, sewn mostly with silk embrodery thread and embellished with lace and beads.
The outside is from my first ever try of dying in plastic bags, overdyed later with indigo, stencilled and thermofax printed:

And the inside is a mixture of hand dyed and comercial fabric scraps, and some of them were also stencilled and printed:

then I put on some old bits of lace:

 and plenty of beads

Thanks for visiting.

Published 11. januar 2015

Happy New Year!

2015 is already more than a week old, I’ve used this first week to finish some Journalquilts from 2014:
First November, inspired by the art of Michael Morgan:

The colours were chosen because November can be rather dark and wet here in Bergen. Some close-ups:

December was made by a photo I took at Skarvhamran, Skjerstad, last summer. I made it in black and white, to give it a wintery look:

 And some close-ups:

I am not satisfied with the edge of the hillside in the foreground, maybe I have to put on some Markal shadings there as well.

I have not made any resolutions for 2015, and working full time in NRK as well, I will just try to be   as creative as posssible with the little time I have. But I have signed up for Ineke Berlyn’s Art textile books online. I love her online courses, they give me a chance to try something new