Greta Huseboe

Published 11. august 2022

Dying, playing and we are in the middle of August!

Since rust-dying last month, this month I’ve tried dying with natural pigments, cochenille,madder, catechu, bluewood, yellowwood and turmenic.

after it was washed and ironed the colours ended like this: cotton

The bright yellow is turmenic. I had hoped for brighter colours, but not this time. My problem is that I am not good at following precise recipies, I like a more random approach!

Last week I met with some friends for a little workshop, laminating. This is my result:

We had plans for an extra treat, crackeling with flour paste, but time ran out. So I tried it yesterday.

It was a lovely day, so I could dry it in the sun, first the paste

then fabric paint, and at last finished on the washing line:

Last I want to show you my quilts for the Calender with Texnet2, August:

«Between green and blue», 15×15 cm cotton, and

«The reconciliation of the wind in the forest», monoprint using leaves from the garden, 15×32 cm.

Thanks for reading, I hope you have enjoyed this.

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:

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 12. mai 2022

Nadelwelt next!

Our Textile Calender will be exhibited at Nadelwelt 20.-22. March. My contribution for the month May are:

«Why?» 32×32 cm.

Why do we see something and cannot forget it. Every May the Sakura will blossom amongst the beech hedges in Byparken in Bergen, and every year I would take a moment, admire and take pictures on my way to work.

And:

The boat lies so quiet on the calm sea.

Next time The Calender will be exhibited is at the Biennale International d’art textile en Beaujolais in France in June.

Hope you enjoyed this.

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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:

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 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.

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 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.