With two new creations in the shop one can see that I have shifted my attention: much more detailed embroidery. I have gone away from the simple patterns and instead started to draw designs that are more time consuming. It fits well with the journeys I am on, the longer the journey, the more intricate … Continue reading Summer Update
Dear readers of this creative (ad)venture, A few new posts on both my weblogs have been published but not wanting to have your inbox being notified, I thought it a good time to send one now. I won't publish any time soon, as we are off for a cycling tour. Summer coming up I thought … Continue reading Update
Two new pouches with so much to tell about them. A piece of handdyed fabric is never without a story.
Llama inspired on the pompoms llama's wear in the high Andes of Argentiina and Bolivia.
This piece of fabric did it's own way, hard headed like myself, it became quite something else than originally intended.
Living the simple life, far off and working the land hard needs to be counterbalanced. What's better than a tour by own powered strenght and... embroidery. Here, 'Fabricated forest' was made.
The places to be creative are best when outside, even when the cold starts to set in (but a fire is a must!)
The absolute favorite ride of my 5 years cycling through 45 countries was the Atacama desert in Chile.
Sweltering sweaty days and equal nights where the temperature hovered between 35 and 43 degrees were not the best circumstances to sleep in fully equipped but a very warm room with rickety air-condition. Our friend Marilyn offered us the room at the side of her neatly brick build house for no costs and to keep … Continue reading Pouch Filadelfia
A certain technique, a certain stitch, a certain weirdness about the time we were in (read Covid) was what it took to get this pouch done (even quickly so). My husband and I were so-called hobo’s, vagabonds, homeless. Our dwellings were in the woods of Florida. Our neighborhood consisted of a Health Park for the … Continue reading Pouch Willhopper Road
