I want to say that we’ve finished renovating and moving into our new house. And I finally have the space and quiet needed to start making patterns and finishing tutorials. But alas, it’s summer…
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Chinese Floral Mandala is a cross stitch pattern recreated from a museum piece. It’s believed to have been first created between 1850-1900 in Western China. Originally embroidered with blue thread on unbleached linen. I’ve…
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Despite the top site claims to be Scandinavian Embroidery, I’m going do digress a bit into the Chinese as well. This is because China has so much beauty to offer with it’s traditional embroidery.…
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I love the traditional Norwegian patterns for the “bringeduk” because they come in some many different shapes and patterns and on top of that, everything changes depending on the colours you use. This one…
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It’s been made clear to me that the frameholder I bought long ago is not working well for me. It might be that my chair is all wrong or the frameholder is just positioned…
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Instead of working on my next biscornu pincushion, I decided to take a nosedive into Swedish Museums. A bit for inspiration, but mostly to procrastinate. Several hours later I suddenly found myself finishing up…
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My second pincushion as a biscornu is in beautiful shades of purple. Fun fact: My favourite colour is purple. You may have noticed it earlier. When I came across the original pattern which had…
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I wanted to incorporate some of the old traditional forms of embroidery from Norway into something fun and quirky. In my humble opinion, biscornu pincushions are loads of fun and quirkness! So I dug…
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The deer has apparently been my spirit animal for quite some time. It started when we were testdriving our then new car. A wonderful Ford Mondeo stationwagon which we later named “The Madam”. It…
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So, I was watching True Blood. And admittingly I will probably never be able to open with that particular explanation again, but I’m enjoying it while I can. And I’ve seen parts of the…