Posts Tagged with Greta Husebø

Yellow Tulips
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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. 

My scroll 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. 
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Book 3 with Ineke
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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.

More tulips
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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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Fabric dying
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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:

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Basic Dyeing for Quiltmakers
Basic Dyeing for Quiltmakers
My first scroll-book
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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.

For Galskapen heng i det grøne, og Eplet er raudt utan synd
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For Galskapen heng i det grøne, og Eplet er raudt utan synd

We have just had another challenge finished with Latitude Quilts. Our theme this time was LETTERING. When the challenge came, I thought this was just my thing. I love letters and writing, and often try to incorporate it in my work. So I looked through my sketchbooks for inspiration, and at once found my quote. It is from a poem by the Norwegian author Jon Fosse and in Norwegian it goes: «For galskapen heng i det grøne, og eplet er raudt utan synd». Translated to English it says something like: «For the madness is hanging in the green, and the apple is red without sinn». I had already a rough idea of how to interpret it, and for a long time, I had wanted to try to embroider lettering in the style of Lorina Bulwer. I had found somewhere on the internet a tutorial of how tom make letters like hers easy, and decided to use it this time.

What colours to use were easy to pick, I needle-turn appliqued  the apple, machine quilted the piece simple with free straight lines before I embroidered the lettering and finished it all with some simple hand-stitches. And framed it all with the colour of the apple.
Because the quote is Norwegian, as my native language is, I decided to keep both the text in the quilt and the title in Norwegian.

 And a close up:

Since last I’ve also finished another Journal Quilt. I used leaves from my garden, printed on rust-dyed cotton, with machine- and hand- quilting:
 And a close up:

New reveal and a Journalquilt
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New reveal and a Journalquilt

On september we revealed our latest challenge with Latitude quilts, WILD, and my contribution is called Jokulsarlon.
This time I decided to go abstract, and to revisit a theme I have played with before. In Iceland, there is a lake  filled with floating mini-icebergs from the nearby glacier. It is called Jokulsarlon, which means «glacial river lagoon». The lines, colour and texture are really fascinating. I painted some fabric in this wonderful green-blue kind of colour of the glacier, cut it up and pieced it together again, and layered it with a polyester kind of fiber, usually used in scrapboking, some of which were manipulated with heat.
I quilted it all with parallell lines and framed it with a simple black binding.

And some close ups:

I also have a Journalquilt to show you. This is for September and is based on the one we made in July, but making it transparent. In this I’ve trapped painted newspaper, Lutradur and silk scraps:

Love Tulip
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Love Tulip

Another reveal from Latitudequilts:
When I put out this challenge, I called it maybe trite but when I started working on it, it really ended up as a challenge for me. While I was looking in my sketchbooks, and my heart for ideas, I came across a journal-quilt I made last year. It was worked with spraying through stencils with some tulips. And I really love tulips with their many shapes patterns and colours. And not to forget it’s history. The first tulip in Norway, bloomed in the garden of an old pharmacy here in the center of Bergen more than 400 years ago.
So I had an idea, but how to interpret it. By spraying and stenciling I managed to get a piece of cloth I liked, but I also needed a focus. I went to one of my other great love: Letters, in all it’s sizes and fonts. And how they can be decorative as well as have a meaning. So I stenciled a big L on top of it all and put the rest of the letters for love as a decoration on it. I hand quilted the visible tulips, machine-quilted the background and appliqued a photo-transfer of a tulip from my garden as a finishing touch.

And some close-ups:

Vi har hatt nok en avsløring av våre utfordringer med Latitudequilts.:


Da jeg ga denne utfordringen – LOVE – kalte jeg den triviell, men etter å ha arbeidet med den, ble det virkelig en utfordring. Mens jeg søkte i skissebøkene mine , og i hjertet, etter inspirasjon, kom jeg over en Journalquilt jeg lagde i fjor. Den var gjort ved å spraye gjennom stensiler av noen tulipaner. Og jeg elsker virkelig tulipaner med deres mange former og farger. For ikke å snakke om historien dens. Den første tulipanen som kom til Norge, bliomstret i hagen til Svanapoteket i Bergen for mer enn 400 år siden.
Så, jeg hadde en ide, men hvordan tolke den? Ved å spraye og rulle med stensilene mine, fikk jeg et stykke stoff jeg likte. Men jeg manglet fokus. Jeg gikk til en annen av mine lidenskaper, bokstaver i alle deres størrelser og fonter, og hvordan de kan være dekorative så vel som ha mening. Så jeg stensilerte en stor L og antydet resten av bokstavene som en del av utformingen. Jeg håndsydde de synlige tulipanene, frihåndsquiltet bakgrunnen og aplikerte en foto-transfer av en tulipan fra hagen min som en siste finish.

Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!

I’m really looking forward to 2014, hopefully it will bring many creative days. Today, I only want to share with you my two latest Journal quilts, for November:

 
 a close up
 
 
 and December:
 
 
 and close up
 

Jeg ser virkelig frem til 2014, forhåpentligvis vil det bringe mange kreative dager. I dag vil jeg bare dele med der mine to siste Journal-quilts, for november og desember.