Op mijn andere blog schreef ik over het SCHERENSCHNITTMUSEUM in Vreden (Duitsland), daar heb ik genoten van prachtig papierknipwerk. Sommige exemplaren waren maar enkele centimeters groot. Op het blog The Essence of the Good Life van Lene (het blog is helaas niet meer toegankelijk) las ik over papierknipkunstenares KAREN BIT VEJLE. Ongelooflijk wat zij maakt. Karen knipt meters papier tot prachtige kunstwerken. Al meer dan 35 jaar is ze in de weer met papier en schaar. Karen heeft haar eigen techniek en stijl ontwikkeld en is een van de meest getalenteerde papierknipkunstenaars van Scandinavië. Zij gebruikt slechts één stuk papier en één schaar. Karen werd in 1958 geboren op Funen in Denemarken. De "Bit" in haar naam kreeg ze van haar jaloerse broer. Op 16 jarige leeftijd zag ze voor het eerst een papierknipkunstenaar aan het werk in park Tivoli in Kopenhagen. Toen ze thuis kwam pakte ze papier en schaar en heeft het sindsdien niet meer losgelaten. Karen studeerde Deens aan de Universiteit van Aalborg. In 1983 bezocht ze het Hans Christian Andersen huis in Odense en zag daar het papierknipwerk van deze sprookjeschrijver en papierknipkunstenaar. Karen besloot tijdelijk te stoppen met haar studie en zich bezig te houden met papierknipwerk. Karen trouwde en in 1985 verhuisde ze met haar man naar Trondheim in Noorwegen, kreeg 3 kinderen en werkte als projectleider en journalist bij de NRK (Noorse tv). Ze was hoofdredacteur van het tv programma "Tore på Sporet"(Spoorloos). Meer dan 35 jaar was papierknipkunst een hobby voor Karen. In 2008 had ze haar eerste tentoonstelling in het NORDENFJELDSKE KUNSTINDUSTRIMUSEUM, daar waren 69 exemplaren van haar papierknipwerk te zien, die ze in een periode van 25 jaar had gemaakt. In 2008 was ze op het Winterfestival in Røros in Noorwegen. Het 7 meter lange en 1.20 meter hoge papierknipwerk, "Shostakovich's piano trio nr.1 opus 8", maakte ze voor deze gelegenheid. Vanaf 2011 heeft Karen van haar hobby haar beroep gemaakt. Hieronder heb ik een video geplaatst van de tentoonstelling 2012 in Klamar Slot in Zweden. Informatie over tentoonstellingen vind je op WEBSITE van KAREN BIT VEJLE. Voor PORSGRUND PORSELEINFABRIEK ontwierp Karen het servies Zeleste. Voor RØROS TWEED ontwierp ze een plaid met het motief van rozen Kerstornamenten. In Noorwegen is het traditie dat een kind bij de geboorte een deken krijgt die hem of haar begeleidt tot het graf. Karen ontwierp een deken met motieven die geïnspireerd zijn op de symbolen van het geloof en de Nidaros Kathedraal. De deken is 95 x 135 cm en is van 100% Noorse wol. Informatie en foto's via Lene's blog The Essence of the Good Life (het blog is helaas niet meer toegankelijk).
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Make Yours as Vivid or Subdued as You Like! We first saw this quilt a few months ago and shared it on our Facebook page. Not surprisingly, it was a big favorite, with many asking for the pattern. We’ve been looking off and on ever since for the pattern and had given up on it …
Good morning friends! It's Masculine Card Monday here on my blog, and today's share is the birthday card I made for my Brother In Law ... They like to spend time in the Miskoka's, so I knew the Adirondack chair would be perfect for him. I like to keep my pop up cards fairly simple on the front, so I just used the Agatha Edge die and matching scroll on the front. The bottom Kraft card stock is embossed with a Happy Birthday embossing folder, and I dabbed on some ink for contrast. I hand lettered the little banner, which was trimmed smaller by running it through the Big Shot again and moving the banner up the die a little. On the inside of the backing card (the reverse of the tree patterned paper on the front) I added small piece of tree patterned paper above the fold and Kraft below the fold so white doesn't show through from reverse side of the patterned paper ... Supplies used: 782 Agatha Edges - Karen Burniston, Pop it Ups (Elizabeth Craft Designs) A2 Pop 'n Cut Card with chair insert - Karen Burniston (Sizzix) Banner - Banner and Borders, Karen Burniston (Sizzix) Label - Butterflies and Labels, Karen Burniston (Sizzix) Tree patterned paper - DCWV Kraft card stock - Michaels Embossing folder - Cuttlebut Birthday stamps - Papertrey Ink Thanks for stopping by today!
Welcome back friends, today is the October Designer Challenge and this month we are taking our inspiration from a fellow team member. I am casing the great work of Fran Sabad with her great accordion card this past spring. I did my inspiration card using Fall colors in place of spring. Here is Fran's card I've listed all the products I used below so you can simply click on the photo for more information. Have a great and creative week, S@ndy
Episode 2 of The Quilting Company Podcast leads us to a as the question: How can batik fabric have anything to do with ugly sweater parties?
20101104 kuvasuunnittelutoimisto Keksi, Fiskars, Tampere, norjalais-tanskalainen psaligrafi eli paperitaiteilija Karen Bit Vejl. Verkaranta. Kuva: Marjaana Malkamäki
Artist Allison May Kiphuth captures scenes inspired by her surroundings in Maine and along the New Hampshire seacoast by squeezing them into small wooden boxes scarcely a few inches wide. Her mixed media dioramas are constructed from layered ink and watercolor illustrations assembled with pins and string inside antique boxes. The content of each artwork varies from piece to piece from underwater scenes of sea life to magical tiny worlds populated by forest creatures. More
Hello Crafty Friends. It's Designer Challenge time and this month our theme was "From the Vault". We were challenged to take inspiration from a previous card we had made and make a new card from that inspiration!! This one was a hard one for me, because I've made so many different kinds of cards, but I was finally inspired by my first Designer Challenge card I made when I joined the team. This was my previous card that I took inspiration from. For this new card, I chose to use a mini slimline card. I used Karen Burniston's Heart Collage Pop-Up with the Butterfly Collage Add-On to create this garden themed card. This was defiantly a labor of love, because each butterfly is created based on a real butterfly. It took a day just to create each butterfly, but look at them!!! It was totally worth it. I cut rectangles for the background using 80lb smooth white cardstock. I created clouds using Distress Ink in Peacock Feathers and my MFT - Mini Clouds stencil. I then die cut two grass pieces using the same smooth white cardstock and Karen Burniston's Long Nature Edges. I added Distress Oxide Ink in Mowed Lawn and Rustic Wilderness to these pieces. I used Karen Burniston's Fence Add-On to add a fence to the background. Then I used some of the flowers from that die set and some flowers from Fun Flowers and Backyard Charms to create a garden in front of the fence. I colored all my flowers in using Copic markers, same as the butterflies. I die cut the sentiments for the front and back of the card using Word Set 14 - Hugs. For the inside sentiment, I used Distress Oxide Ink in Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry. For the front of the card, I used some butterflies and flowers, but tried to keep it simple, as the inside is the real surprise. I used Lineco Neutral pH glue and a Fine Tip Bottle to adhere everything to my card. I love all these beautiful butterflies. If you would be interested in seeing how to create these yourself, leave a comment below and I will create a how to YouTube video for you. Thank you so much for stopping by and Happy Crafting! Supplies: For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below and in bolded text in post. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. Please note I only use and share products I love. Thank you Crafty Friends! Other Supplies Used:
Spring Fever quilt pattern from the Buggy Barn book, Certifiably Crazy Last month i taught the 'Buggy Barn Way' technique. Click HERE to view my tutorial post. And shown below is my finished quilt. Trinity Quilt clubbers...i'm bringing it to show this coming Sunday!
Think about you, quilting. Pair that image with your wildest, most wouldn’t-it-be-amazing dream. What does your marvel of a quilting experience look like? For astronaut Karen Nyberg, her quilting adventure was a literal out-of-this world event: making a quilt block in orbit, on the International Space Station. Wow! Inspiration doesn’t come on a scale much …
Firstly an update on Soy Amado. No. 128 No. 129 No. 130 No. 131 - love everything about this one: the setting and the quilt itself. No. 132. Blue sky. Haven't seen that in a while. No. 133 Another lovely one from @grannyjack123 on Instagram No. 134 No. 135 No. 136 No. 137 No. 138 No. 139 No. 140 All the blocks were sent to me by @obsessivequilter on Instagram. I believe they were from some block of the month thingy. They were random sizes so I just whacked them together, using my own fabric to fill in the gaps and then I quilted the whole quilt. It's a whopper. I had to take the pic inside because of how chuffin wet and windy it was outside. That means it's not the best of lights which is a shame because the blocks are beautiful. No. 141 And No. 142 which brings me up to date. Artistic jaunty angle courtesy of the persistent wind and rain. The latest batch have been delivered to South Africa where it's now summer. Once the cooler months return, the school where they have been delivered to are going to hand them out and have told me they will sit with each individual child and talk through with them the patterns on the quilts, explaining that each one is as individual as they are. Apologies for the blurry photo but this is the quilts arriving. Knitting has continued. I spent a small fortune knitting this for eldest daughter as a going away to university present. The yarn is Woolfolk Far and although lovely to knit with is, by far and away, at $22 a skein and a whole lot of skeins required, the most expensive item I've knitted. I liked the yarn but it does have a slight tendency to bobble and I question my sanity at spending so much on a uni sweater. The pattern is called Los (all the patterns I find are available on Ravelry) but I lost the will to live doing the actual body pattern so switched to garter stitch for a swifter finish. I actually think it looks great and I loved the way you knitted the front and back hems separately and then joined them when the back was longer. Then I became obsessed with making the Pondhopper hat. It's so quick to knit up - I can do it over two evenings. If you are interested in making it, I did one full repeat extra of the pattern because other people on Ravelry had said it was quite a snug fit and I wanted it more slouchy. So far, I have knitted seven but I'll only bore you with three. There seemed to be a lot of interest on IG on where I got the pom pom bobble balls from - Cowling Country Crafts on Etsy. I've done your research for you because I feel a cheap looking pom pom can make or break a hat and these are great quality. Plus, they are fixed with snap fasteners, making it very easy to put on said hats. I made a Gryer Shawl in worsted yarns. And a Brida Shawl. I hopped on a plane and train to my first ever knitting convention weekend and took two classes with the brilliant Olive Knits. Those classes alone were worth the expense. It was also my first time wandering around a place where a complete myriad of styles of knitting, both in the things you can make and the yarns you can buy, were available to peruse. I came away convinced more than ever that I like classic and conservative colours and styles. There were so many yarns that looked like the result of a bad decision the night before, they made me antsy with their splattered colour randomness. Which is not to say I am the authority on what is classy. Just that it was a good chance to understand what I found appealing and what left me scratching my head and at times shaking it in an internal, OMG way. This made me happy. And this left me cold. Which leads me to conclude I like my quilts a riot of colour and my clothes not so. I made a Guernsey Wrap. Well I had to really because of the name. And I made it with two colours. Just because. And a 2nd Avenue Wrap which is lovely and wide and I wear it to work and it's great for keeping warm. And my favourite knitting make to date is the Humulus Sweater. When the pattern for this came out, I followed the hashtag religiously on Instagram to see other people's makes. I went subtle. Too subtle as you can' really see the green contrast pattern. However, I love it, it's a great fit and I am going to make another one some time with more contrast. On the quilting front, I continued with my open love affair with all things Anna Maria Horner. I have quite the pile of excess squares cut from a previous quilt so I put them to good use and made this. It's just the humble half square triangle which I made by whacking two squares together, pencil line diagonally across, seeing 1/4" either side of the line and then cutting on the pencil line. Really simple but oh so effective. And then I decided I needed a Courthouse Steps quilt in her fabric so this is the start of something I am already hugely in love with. And that, if you have got this far, brings you bang up-to-date :-)
Story Stones make a super cute project the kids will absolutely enjoy creating and playing with. Perfect for summer!
Learn how to use a sloper to simplify altering commercial patterns.
This is a classic Pennsylvania Amish style quilt called "Sunshine and Shadow." When it's made using printed fabrics (rather than solids) it's called "Trip Around the World." I love the delicious colors in this quilt!
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Leaf stitch is one of my favorite needlepoint stitches. I first shared this stitch on my blog back in 2010. I thought of revamping the whole idea of needlepoint with Leaf stitch so I created this easy and fun project to make a pair of coasters that look fresh and beautiful.These colorful coaste
“The most vivid day of the year in Sisters” — that’s how one quilt group describes the second Saturday of the year, when the little town of Sisters in Central Oregon is cove…
karen margolis the enso, japanese for circle, is my inspiration for imagery. it is a sacred symbol in zen buddhism, embodying infinity and...
The Sacred Threads exhibit intends to touch its viewers on spiritual and personal levels. From the program: "We share the experiences of quilters whose stories are a source of healing and strength. The show does not emphasize any particular religion, but conveys the spirituality, healing and inspirational messages that transcend all people." Let's Go! by Cindy Z Souder Cultivator by Cherrie Hampton Cherrie said "As I worked on this quilt my heart was inspired with a new compassion for the daily struggles of those around me." This is another SAQA quilt: Dance Warmups by Barbara Yates Beasley A Tree of Life by Lin Schiffner (Sacred Threads exhibit) Boston in the Spring by Rosanne F. Williamson The artist states that she has traveled to New England five times in the Spring to support her husband as he runs the Boston Marathon. Memories by Jennifer Day I really like this one... And that is it for pictures from the Denver National Quilt show 2014. It was a great show, as you can tell! Exciting news on the home front. Word is that a new quilt store will be opening in our town soon! That is always something to celebrate :)
