I think that Swedish artist Karin Derland makes a time-consuming and seemingly tedious craft like embroidery look like so much fun in her new book that I am reviewing today – and we’re also giving away a copy! I think that Swedish artist Karin Derland makes a time-consuming and seemingly tedious craft like embroidery look […]
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A Book just for You my Darling
Happy Leap Day! My new art journal is an altered book again. This one is a little smaller than my previous very big and chunky Cut and Paste Journal. I thrifted this book a few years ago, and until now it has just been sitting in my stash of books to cut up or use […]
Inspirational Craft Books from Sweden with Love
Sweden has a big international music industry for such a small country, so it is probably well known how creative swedes are out there “in the world”. But did you know we also produce a ton of awesome books, most prominently there has been a lot of crime fiction translated (especially in Germany) in the […]
A Book about Designing Patterns by Lotta Kühlhorn
One of my favorite book designers in Sweden is called Lotta Kühlhorn. A couple of years ago she made hew own book (Designing Patterns by Lotta Kühlhorn) about her process in making repeating patterns and of course it was on my wish list ASAP! It’s now also available in English, so I thought a review […]
Astrid Lindgren 100 years old
I’m Swedish and one of my favorite writers is the world famous Astrid Lindgren. She would’ve become 100 years this November if she were still alive. My friend Maria wrote about it on her blog (no longer online) on the 14th of November and a lot of people did. I didn’t make a post then, […]
Knitprovisation by Cilla Ramnek
Today I’ve got some smoking hot Book-news for you. I read about a new book over at Tricia’s blog Bits and Bobbins, and I just had to tell you all to go get it! I own it myself already, but in Swedish, and I love it. You will too, if you like crazy designs that […]
Free Form Crocheting
I borrowed a book from the library a couple of weeks ago. It is called Fri virkning (Fri haekling) and it’s about free-form crochet. I guess I have to return it to the library soon, but it feels stupid sometimes to return books that you want to keep. I read it from first page to […]
A Swedish Must Read Book Series
I’ve opened up the package that was wrapped for me in the store where I bought it (!) and started to use the spiral bound square notebook as my forth art journal! But I thought I needed more treats this week… So I went to the library for the first time in a couple of […]
Knit with Katarina Brieditis
I got the Swedish knitting book Lust att sticka by Katarina Brieditis, one of very few Swedish craft women that is well known in media and that has an official image. She makes a lot of cool stuff, this book included. The pink cap is finished but no picture yet. Instead I bought this Swedish knitting book […]
Do Redo – a Swedish book book about recycling
Do Redo – the art of butchering a sweater. A book in Swedish: I’ve found a new Swedish book about knitting and recycling material (thank you Jorun for telling me about this book – or I might not have found it). And it is sooo cool, it’s called Do Redo in Swedish, written by Katarina […]