The stories have at times become an important part of the pouch. Some pouches take very long to be finished. Not so much because I don’t like to work on them but because I have much other things going on: keeping a vegetable garden for self reliance, collecting natural edibles for food and dyeing fabrics for the needle art projects and I started to knit. Almost always a piece of fabric dictates it’s own coming to be and it needs patience and the moodset to finish what the pouch wants to become.
The story behind the pouch
Winged Reflection
For a long time I wanted to embroider with the wings of beetle. Inspiration always disturbed this plan, until this previous winter.
The Gorgeous Uzbek girl
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.
Sea Knuckles
I used AI to get to this title and together with another old Hungarian chair that I used the fabric from and the beads and threads I incorporated for the tassel originating from a valley I lived in for 8 months… well, that makes it a pretty pretty pouch.
Alpujarra
Several pouches are finished all at once because walking through Spain gave me enough reason to sit and embroider.
Spanish Slate
Spanish Slate was such a pleasure to make: it came totally organically off the needle because what is better than being in the most favorite natural surroundings, the only desert of Europe.
The Desert Wrap
Some projects fail to deliver, eventhough they are beautiful. Geo and I looked at it and came to the same conclusion: pretty but uh….
Candi
While upholstering an old chair with a new fabric I found the old fabric too good to be thrown out. A new pouch was born, one I am very content with. It’s a little sweet candy to my eyes.
Riogordo
I wanted to embroider a pattern I did before, which I found very pleasing to the eye. Combining several, seemingly ugly parts into one attractive pouch. I think I succeeded.
Málaga
This pouch took a year before she got moulded into what it has become, and a lovely little pouch she became.
Summer
A first for everything, this pouch is made from leather with embroidery on the inside.
Howling Dog
These little pangs of excitement are sweet and make me shoot into action right after someone asks me to make a custom made pouch.
Llama
‘Is there a story behind every pouch?’ is the same question as ‘is there a story behind that person?’ Every pouch has a story, however little embroidery is applied.
Paraguay Cerrito
My all time favorite pouch. I don’t understand why this one is still in my shop? The 2 super stories aside, this is a pearl.
Filadelfia
A pouch with a story? This one tops them all! A South America travel on motorbike with a high level of discomfort, but a beauty of a pouch.
Iparoma
After 5 years cycling I halted at a Paraguayan mennonite cattle ranch where I did not know that it would bring me a husband and cob web.
Sawn tree trunk
This piece of fabric did it’s own way, hard headed like myself, it became quite something else than originally intended.
Leah & Judah
Once settled I thought I’d have no stories to tell about embroidery. Not traveling does not mean that nothing happens. Yet, this story behind this pouch is rather sad.
Fabricated forest
Ao po’i, my beloved stitch: taking a piece of fabric and original yarn from Paraguay with me on a kickbike tour made a quick pattern.
Jacksonville
A design coming forth by total immobility at a hide out in Florida, being full of inspiration at only a few square meters.
Italy
For some reason this pouch is not popular. Perhaps the mediterranean highway route truck-travel has to do with it?
Simply Onion
An easy and pretty pattern that lay idle for too long. Once I started to sew it became quickly just what I wanted.
The Life of (Pi)llow
A design that revealed itself when I didn’t have a clue what do make from it, until I had a 10 day kickbike trip through the woods.
Segunda Jerusalen
This time my mind sought inspiration in the moments between noisy action and unpleasant adventures on a motorbike.
Atacama
No amount of paper or coins could be attached to this pouch. This particular odyssey became priceles.
