This year's top fashion colour - rose quarz - seems to have been the theme of my posts just lately. I decided to dye my tatted new earrings from the previous post that colour too to go with my pale pink cardigan. After my experiments of dyeing with avocado skins I've been reading a lot about natural dyes.… Continue reading Dyeing with coffee and blackcurrants, värjäystä kahvilla ja marjamehulla
Inspired by a Japanese artist Miho Fujita who makes fabulous intricate jewellery with a tiny crochet hook I tried crocheting and tatting these earrings with my tatting thread. On the right my tatted version with a four petal flower motif and on the left my try of Miho Fujita's tiny circle chains. My tatted earrings… Continue reading Tatted and crocheted earrings, korvikset käpypitsistä ja virkkaamalla
My freezer is still full of last summer's blueberries so I'm making blueberry flavoured macarons for this post. They turned out very pretty and are quite tasty too! More in English from half way down the post... * Kevään kunniaksi tein vaaleanvioletteja mustikkamacaroneja osana pakastimen tyhjennysprojektiani. Niistä tuli aika somia! Tästä annoksesta tulee kolme pellillistä… Continue reading Blueberry macarons, Mustikka macaronit
My dyeing experiments continue with shibori, which is the name given to a variety of traditional Japanese resist dyeing techniques. This is the same kind of sewing method that I've seen used in Guinea, Africa with indigo dyes (which I'm planning to come back to in a later post..). It took me a while to grasp… Continue reading Shibori flowers, shibori kukkia
Tablecloths are easy to sew - when you have the right size fabric! This time the table was so wide that with normal fabric the sides would not have dropped down properly over the edge. Two solutions: sewing one seam along the middle or adding pieces onto the sides, both of which mean buying twice… Continue reading Sewing a tablecloth, pöytäliinan ompelua
The colour scheme of the previous post continues with this forest green satin that we found for a young lady's evening dress. The black lace is sewn onto the bodice slightly asymmetrically and continues to cover the décolletée. * Nuoren neidin iltapukuun löytyi Eurokankaasta paksua ja kauniin metsänvihreää puuvilla-viskoosisatiinia. Miehustaan ommeltiin kiinni mustaa pitsiä joka… Continue reading Satin evening dress, satiini-iltapuku
I have plenty of material for twig wreaths after a big birch tree was cut down at Easter from the front of our smoke sauna. Chopping the wood will keep us busy for a few weekends too and all this firewood will warm our hearths on many a cold winter's night to come 🙂 *… Continue reading Twig heart, risusydän
Over easter I made this mobile pouch. My daughter needed one quick (mobiles without a cover are very prone to injury as you probably well know) so she chose some wool from my left over yarn stash and out with the big needles. Felting is one of my favourite techniques and the soft shell around… Continue reading Felted mobile pouch, huovutettu kännykkäkotelo
The elaborate lace in this old book has once adorned the sheet of some noblewoman. The pattern I found for the crocheted tablecloth is nearly the same with the crocheted bands forming an intriguing trellis between the rounds. This is one work I dug out of the unfinished objects' basket and finally sewed together. *… Continue reading Lace tablecloth, pitsipöytäliina
This is really easy and fun! The internet is full of inspiring photos and blog posts about natural dyes and dyeing techniques, see textile artist Ruth Singer's fantastic work for example. In her blog I stumbled across something I had to try straight away: dyeing with avocado! * Pari viikkoa sitten luin tekstiilitaiteilija Ruth Singerin hurmaavaa… Continue reading Dyeing with avocado, värjäystä avokadon kuorilla
HandmadebyLiisa 