Sunday afternoon in the studio
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Left: The view from my studio window. Right: Colorful goodie bag
It’s not often these days that I’m entirely on my own. I’m on maternity leave (most days of the week) with our second girl now 10 months. She is with me in the studio but she is the impatient type and doesn’t let me work much :)
Yesterday I went to the studio by myself for a couple of hours. Brought a bag of goodies (old colorful vintage finds that has been hanging in the wardrobe for a while) – maybe I could make something with it…
Have a lot of Copic markers that I love to use all the time while sketching – I needed something to bring them in, going back and forth from home to my studio. Cut up one of the blouses and made a pouch out of it. My small digital camera also got a cozy from a nuno-fabric.
I used a super good tutorial from Three bears for the pouches!
Left: Copic marker & digital camera Cozys. Right: All of them actually fit inside.
I love my Copics!
I'm a ribbon junkie
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LOVE ribbons! – especially vintage. Want to put ribbons on everything.
Tried to come up with new things to make with ribbon………….but only the same-old-same-old came to mind :)
Flowers, like they had on the rococo-dresses in the 1700’s. I want to make a copy of a dress like that sometime – and one for my 5 year old daughter too.
( :-D I saw a picture in my head of my chubby 10 months girl in one of thouse frilly dresses!)
Crocheted moon landscape bag
Posted by Inger Carina | Filed under granny squares, tutorials and patterns
Maybe you remember this post from November about my playing with 3D crochet. I did 24 squares and they have been lying here in a basket. Now I put them together and made a bag out of them, because I found these handles at a flea market. Put a Japanese cotton fabric in as lining.
Crocheted moon landscape
Finished bag. Approx 30 x 25 cm (12″ x 10″).
It’s based on a standard (a bit ”tweaked” & changed) granny square. Japanese printed cotton fabric lining.
Not my colors though…. I need something extra colorful for spring. This is more suitable for the fall/winter collection.
Got some questions how I made this.
So this i my attempt to explain in English – bear with me:)
First & second row is crocheted with what we call velvet yarn. Third row some kind of Angora mega hairy yarn and the last row ordinary wool yarn.
To achieve the bulky effect and keep the work square I did as follows:
With velvet yarn I crocheted 5 double crochet in a group and took the hook out of the last chain. Then put the hook trough the top-chain of the groups first double crochet and put the last chain on the hook again. Pulled the yarn through it all to bind the top of all 5 of the double crochet’s tight together.
Hope it made some sense :)
Kind regards Inger Carina
A little domestic DIY for some spring feeling
Posted by Inger Carina | Filed under furniture DIY, other designers
Went to Dalarna and fetched Michael’s granma’s kitchen sofa – I put new fabric on it and painted it sometime in the early 90’s, which resulted in a blue sofa with checked blue/gray fabric. Nothing I like nowadays :)
With a stapelgun and a super cute pink floral oilcloth from Mingla design it took me 4 minutes to make our kitchen ready for spring
Voilà – Spring kitchen!
Mmmmm thats more like it! Brilliant colors!
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More my range of colors Colorful grannies
Experimenting with surfaces
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Working with crocheted surfaces. Trying to make fun and interesting textures. Here is a test that I kind of like so I made a little bag out of it. The colors are, as you know by now, a little bit to subtle for my taste :) I continue to experimen…
I love my stash!
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International Moleskine exchange
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Hope you have seen the link on the right to my moly-exchange group. This is a wonderful project started by Marty Harris.
20 groups of 3-8 artists are sending Moleskine Japanese foldout sketch books to each other around the world. Read all about it on http://www.flickr.com/groups/moly_x/
My group is moly_x_16
Was doodling about it in my sketch book and came to the conclusion that I will sew in a long piece of fabric in my book. This way my ”moly_x_16-friends” can work and sketch with tread or another textile technique.
Wizard of Oz-fabric & Print-on-demand textile
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Fabric shopping on the net at a break from my BIG studio swap. Everything took SOO much more time than I expected. Off course – things like this does.
The movers are coming on Tuesday and my new desk and other things are deliverd to the new studio, from IKEA, on Monday. Now all my craft supplies are in boxes so I did som inspiration-surfing in the webshops:
The Wizard of Oz photo fabrics!
Dorothyprints from Karen’s shop Anna Lena’s , Long Beach USA. This print is so lovely and superfun! Bought one more Oz-pattern. You can see that one by clicking on the image below with all the fabrics on. Found a bunch of SUPER CUTE small-printed fabric from Japan at Nuno. I couldn’t stop myself. Prints like this gives me inspiration to stay up at night makeing my own patterns with Illustrator :-)
I would love to hear if you have any tips on this subject ! :-)
Kind Regards /Inger Carina
Moving my studio. It's Craft Chaos!
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I’m moving to a new studio this week. It’s very exciting, but it’s also A LOT of work cleaning up and putting everything in boxes. Right now it’s a total chaos here.
I am a big collector – fabric, beads, patterns from the 50’s-80’s etc. I Love to pat my piles of fabric like pets :) this is one of my favorite shelfs with vintage colorful prints (and some new with the same ”graphic feel” from for example IKEA)
When you clean up and go through all the stuff it’s like an archeological (is that a word?) field survey. You make finds – like my collection of vintage aprons! Hadn’t seen them in a while and I got really inspired from their cuteness.
I will make a photo presentation of them later for you all, so you also kan enjoy them :)
All material in this blog is made and designed by Inger Carina Bergholm Sunden with all rights reserved. You are free to post my work on you blog or website if you credit me and please
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