I just want to show you my quilts for TexNet2,The Calendar: September:
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Another exhibition
Our exhibition Calender is shown in Villefranche-sur -Saone these days. This month I give you my works for June:
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.
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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:
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….
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.