Wednesday 30 April 2014

blues part #07 (oh + oh)




























Untitled (oh so many rainy days)
April 2014

#1 200cm x 100cm
#2 190cm x 90cm

Found discarded cotton fabric, 2nd hand cotton sheet + sewing thread mounted on wooden frames.


blues part #06 (group of blue urns)



























Untitled (blue urns)
April 2014

details here, here and here

blues part #05 (hand-sewn patchwork urn)




















































Untitled (embroidery urn #2)
April 2014

Height 60cm, diameter 36cm


Second hand table cloths + sewing thread.

As in the previous urn, I was reminded of how fog and clouds are represented in old Japanese drawings and water colours, but this time I used the embroidery right side up.

blues part #04 (hand-sewn patchwork urn)



















































Untitled (embroidery urn #1)
April 2014

Height 51cm, diameter 34cm
Second hand table cloth + sewing thread.

I preferred the back side of the embroidery, it reminded me of how fog and clouds are represented in old Japanese drawings and water colours, so I reversed the fabric and used up almost every little scrap of embroidery-


blues part #03



























Untitled
April 2014

90cm x 60cm

Second hand cotton table cloth + sewing thread mounted on wooden frame.
This is made from the left over fabric from this.

blues part #02 (hand-sewn patchwork urn)

























Untitled (blue urn) 
April 2014

Height 83cm, diameter 54cm

Used cotton and linen table cloths, cardboard + sewing thread.

+ square quilt prototype +




















Quilt #01 (March 2014)

150cm x 150cm

This is a machine sewn one-off quilt prototype inspired by an old Scandinavian embroidery pattern made from second hand cotton tablecloths and bed sheets.

Untitled (Masaai #1)






















Untitled (Masaai #1)
February 2014

90cm x 60cm

Used cotton table cloth, used acrylic table cloth + sewing thread mounted on wooden frame.

- peachy -





















Untitled (peachy #1 + #2)
February 2014

Both 100cm x 150cm x 3.5cm

Used cotton and linen table cloths + sewing thread mounted on wooden frames.

blues part #01













































Untitled (blå #01 + blå #02)
January 2014

Both 100cm x 150cm x 3.5cm

Used cotton and linen table cloths + sewing thread mounted on wooden frames.

+ hand-sewn boat +




















Domestic Wilderness #01 (January 2014)

80cm x 370cm x 100cm
8 (used) moving boxes, 1 woolen blanket, 1 acrylic blanket, 6 x cotton bed sheets,
2 x hospital bed sheets + tape, sewingthread (all textiles are second-hand)

I made this boat in my tiny one bedroom flat, so had to use Photoshop to get rid of all my furniture etc.





Thursday 3 April 2014

* snow pillow *










































Hand sewn patchwork pillow made from old tourist table cloth (bought in the 1960's by my grandfather in Greenland) From the top; front, back, test piece, middle part of the original design followed by images from the border. 40cm x 40cm