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Published 10. september 2022

Just a short post!

I just want to show you my quilts for TexNet2,The Calendar: September:

«Red Leaves», 15×15 cm, monoprint on cotton, about the changing of colour when winter approaches.
«Tread carefully», 15×15 cm, cotton. Tread carefully on the old, rotten dock.

Published 10. juni 2022

Another exhibition

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» 15×15 cm.
«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.

The Calender is unlikely to appear until next spring.


                
                
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 9. juni 2016

Creative again at last

It’s nearly 6 months since my last entry, and most of this time I have been clearing my old house, packing everything in boxes, moved to Tonsberg, and unpacked everything again.
So yesterday, I needed to do something creative again. I took an old sheet, wrapped it around some old tools i have inherited from my father, poured over about 3 litres of tea of various kinds, wrapped it in plastic and left it in the garden overnight.

 

The result when I opened it today was gourgeous:
 
Such beautiful marks.
 

Just now the piece is in the washing machine, hopefully the marks will survive. I don’t know if I want to keep it as a wholecloth or cut it in smaller pieces. Time will show.

Textile Zig-Zag-book
Published 24. juni 2015

Textile Zig-Zag-book

I have made one of my paper zig-zag-books in textile.

 I scanned the pages of my paper books, played with some of the pages in Photoshop, and printed on TAP paper the ones I wanted to use in my textile version. I then used Bondaweb to glue them to the backing of a piece of Gesso-painted cotton. This gave me the hold I needed for a zig-zag-book. To secure them further, because some of the pages went over the foldings, I stitched them with white tread. The quote I’ve used is from a poem by Jon Fosse. No deeper meaning, I just needed something to write.

Two more books finished
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

Yellow Tulips
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. 

My scroll 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.
Just a short update
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.

Book 3 with Ineke
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.

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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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Made by wind and water overnight #icesculpture #fr Made by wind and water overnight #icesculpture #frozen #nature #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
Slow stitching. #slowstitch #handstitch #ghuseboe Slow stitching. #slowstitch #handstitch #ghuseboe  #gretahusebo
It is snowing again. My path to the studio and gar It is snowing again. My path to the studio and garden. More snow are falling and tomorrow the rain comes. Heavy rain the next days. I wonder where the melting water will go when the ground is frozen. #winterinnorway🇳🇴 #snow #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
Happy Hollidays! #christmas #ghuseboe #gretahusebo Happy Hollidays!
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The sun has turned and the days are getting longer The sun has turned and the days are getting longer. The tree is decorated and the rest of the house is starting to fall into place. So it's time to wish all my friends on Facebook a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! #winter #christmas #ghuseboe #gretahuseboe
Woke up to this this morning. It has snowed about Woke up to this this morning.  It has snowed about 20 cm.  You can glimpse my car behind my daughters. #winter #snow #ghusenoe #gretahusebo
Frosty leaves #winter #cold #inspiration #winterbe Frosty leaves #winter #cold #inspiration #winterbeauty #ghuseboe  #gretahusebo
It is December and my contribution to the TEXNET 2 It is December and my contribution to the TEXNET 2 calendar is:
"The wild birds", 32x32 cm. 
Above the white pond the vild birds have flown. Painted cotton, machine embroidery and hand quilted.
As mentioned before, the whole Calendar will be exhibited in Rijswijck, the Netherlands in April 2023.
#texnet2 #calendar "ghuseboe #gretahusebo #jonfosse #artquilt #paintedcotton
Beyond paperlamination, sample #paperlamination #s Beyond paperlamination, sample #paperlamination #samplingnewwork #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
My November contributions to the TEXNET 2 calendar My November contributions to the TEXNET 2 calendar:
"So beautifully dressed in grey", 15x15 cm, cotton and "In a soft darkness", in a soft darkness we enter - and the colour are purple... 15x15 cm, ecodyed silk. The whole exhibition Calendar will be exhibited in Rijswijck, the Netherlands in April 2023. #texnet2 #calendar #ghuseboe #gretahuseboe
My October contribution to the TEXNET 2 calendar, My October contribution to the TEXNET 2 calendar, "A Silent Wind", 32x32 cm. #texnet2 #calendar #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
Here are my September contribution to the TEXNET 2 Here are my September contribution to the TEXNET 2 calendar. "Read leaves", 15x15 cm, and "Tread carefully" on the old slippery dock 15x15 cm. Our next exhibition will be in April 2023 in the Netherlands.
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