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Published 20. juni 2020

I Love Tulips!

I really love tulips with their many shapes patterns and colours. And May in my garden was filled with tulips. I first fell in love with the flower when I read about the history of tulips and my home town Bergen.

A young Doctor, Henrik Höjer, travelled to the University of Leiden, Holland to take his examen. There he met and befriended Charles de L’Ecluse. When he moved back to Bergen three years later, 1596, he brought with him many bulbs and thus introduced the tulip to Norway. He continued to receive bulbs from Charles de L’Ecluse for years to come.

There even is a tulip that only exist in Norway, named Tulipa norvegica.

So it was natural for me to use tulips as my theme for the May book. I picked up all my tulip stamps and sprayed, printed and draw tulips on a big sheet of paper:

After cutting it up and made a book of it the result is like this:

I have also working on some ideas from my design wall, trying to get together some new quilts. Back on my Dragonfly theme, this first one is a piece of paper used to blot of some printing and painting:

I thought it would be a great background for some machine embroidery, so I bonded it to wadding, and surrounded it with strips of old sari-silk. I have never used paper in my works before, so this is a try and learn. Will the paper hold all the stitching from the machine embroidery? Time will show. It is up on the design wall while I figure out how to proceed.

The next one has been waiting for a year for me to proceed. I tried to bleach the sari strips used, but it didn’t work, so I painted it instead. The dragonfly is free machine stitched, and painted as well. Now I have to deal with the background, what to do next.

As you see, they can end up well or be total failures. Time will show.

I hope you have enjoyed this glipse into my creative life.

Enjoy your summer, keep distance and be safe.

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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.

gretahusebo

Norwegian artist. Art quilts, bookbinding, booklover, embroidery, knitting.

A few french knots. #newwork #challenge #textile # A few french knots. #newwork #challenge #textile #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
Afternoon by the grave-mounds at Borre #vikinggrav Afternoon by the grave-mounds at Borre #vikinggraves #winterlight #borrehaugene #borre #vestfold #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
Choises choises....#newwork #colours #handstitch # Choises choises....#newwork #colours #handstitch #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
Takk #siripettersen for nok en glimrende bok. Jeg Takk #siripettersen for nok en glimrende bok. Jeg kan nesten ikke vente på fortsettelsen. If you love fantasy, the I can recomend the books of #siripettersen. This last one ‘The iron wolf’ is just as absorbing as the Raven rings triologi. #books #reading #fantasy #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
Finally my book of December,finished on New years Finally my book of December,finished on New years eve. Since most of December was filled with preparations for Christmas,so was my theme. My Year of 2020 is complete. #bookmaking #december #christmas #2020 #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
And November. Suddenly ballet came in my mind. My And November. Suddenly ballet came in my mind. My granddaughtet dancing and my own past. And the colours reflects my participating in #laurakemshall Sketchbook Project. #november #sketchbook #bookmaking #colour #inspiration #ballet #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
A little update of my monthly books,a bit late. Th A little update of my monthly books,a bit late. This is October,filled with rain all month. #bookmaking # sketchbooks #october #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
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Frosty spiderweb on my neighbour’s bin. #frost # Frosty spiderweb on my neighbour’s bin. #frost #inspiration #lines #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
At last here is my book of September, a book about At last here is my book of September, a book about the lovely colours of autumn. #book #bookbinding #autumn #colours #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
I found this beautiful treeroot walking along the I found this beautiful treeroot walking along the shoreline of Essoskogen. #treeroot #essoskogen #shoreline #inspiration #tønsberg #ghuseboe #gretahusebo
Beautiful seedheads on my Codonopsis. #flowers #au Beautiful seedheads on my Codonopsis. #flowers #autumn #inspiration #tønsberg #gretahusebo #ghuseboe
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