Sometimes an embroidered piece of fabric that has been stitched into shape isn’t great. The zipper might pull ripples to the fabric, like waves on an ocean. Other times the pouch doesn’t become a shape, rather sags like a bag of wrinkled potatoes. Read the full post
Krishnamurti Early mornings cold stone walls surround me while a fire picks up but always slower than I wish. An old barn is not easy to heat up and once it is, my quiet time is over. Slowly I start to learn to be less jumpy and over-active, something not natural to me. Read the … Continue reading Find your talent and stick to it
The moments that you try not to be creative but when things just flow. The moments when all aligns and your hands work what the material presents you. That I call creativity, such a joyful event. A new pouch came about: Pag. Sometimes they just don’t come off the ground, the pouch in its present … Continue reading The blooming started…
Two new pouches with so much to tell about them. A piece of handdyed fabric is never without a story.
This piece of fabric was long in my travel pouch and it went to quite a few places, from Székesfehérvár to Zagreb to Mostar. I think it looks good but the end result, a coaster, is not what I opted for.To be honest, knitting has me in its grip much more than embroidering nowadays. In … Continue reading Hollow Rock
A new pouch and a new story behind it. This time I found my materials in the forest, almost all of it.
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.
The movie I saw on an airplane after the book I red in India. I liked both. My husband did not. But my imagination is big and I love to escape in my own world, so it fitted me. The same with this pillow, this little write up is about the life of this Pi(llow). … Continue reading The life of Pi(llow)
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.
