After years of dreaming, planning and saving money I went back to school last year. I’ve found a course that combines my nerdiness with my love for textiles: I’m now on my way to becoming a textile engineer! One semester down, this far we’ve had courses in knitting and weaving (and lots and lots of [...]
As you’ve probably noticed by now I’m a sucker for big projects. So I just had to make another one. One more Super Mario Bros 3 map, world 2 this time. Size: 59 x 18 cm on 21 count Aida. It took just under nine months to finish (although I did mix it up with [...]
Some pics from Craftwerk 2.0, the exhibition in Jönköping, Sweden, where Kakariki and I participate. The exhibition was amazing and I could not stop smiling as I walked through. Lovely to see all these things that I’ve seen only on pictures in real life. Anyone near Jönköping should go see it, not to mention all [...]
The text says “You are not alone”. Sounds comforting, right?
Well, look closer…
During the fall there were a number of squats all over Sweden as a protest to the housing shortage. It is especially bad in the biggest cities. Inspired by those squats I decided to make this cross stitch, it’s based on a photo from an article about one of them. The text on the banner [...]
Craftster user torrance made a cross stitch and when I saw it I immediately knew it would be perfect for a vegan friend of mine. So when it was time for his birthday I decided to make a version of it for him. I’ve been cross stitching so much so I decided to do something [...]
In my last post I promised that I would return back to the radical stitching from the nerdiness. And so I did!
This is what I’ve been working on for the last six weeks:
Ok, so I just had to make one more video game stitch… More precisely the map from Zelda – Link’s awakening, my absolute favorite game when I was little.
And some close ups:
Finished size about 24,5 x 22 cm (9,5 x 8,5 inches), 160 x 144 stitches.
This was fun, but now I’ll leave the game nostalgia [...]
I wanted to try out some other techniques than cross stitch, so took the opportunity to make a grocery bag, which I needed anyway.
The bag itself was really easy to make – I simply used an old plastic bag as a pattern – but the stitching (chain stitch) turned out to be a little less [...]
Lately I haven’t been doing so much politically inclined crafting. Instead I’ve entertained my inner geek with an enormous cross stitch I’ve been wanting to make for a couple of years. The thought of the amount of time it would take to finish has put me off, but finally it’s done!
A cross stitch of an [...]
A few years ago I loved to screen print and did it a lot for a while, but for some reason I quit and haven’t gotten around to do it again. Now I’ve started printing a little again, and I’m having so much fun!
The original for this is a sketch for a tattoo I found [...]
In january i finished a cross stitch based on a qoute I found at bitterstitch.com, but never felt completely happy with it. Now I’ve finished a new version of the same quote, and I like it so much better! I love the colour combination and this version feels much more balanced than the first one.
The [...]
I loved Kakariki’s post about the knitted poo a while ago, and immediately knew that it would be perfect for one of my friends. She has this amazing bizarre sense of humor and is one of very, very few I know who would use the phrase “my prettiest vomit” as if it’s a perfectly everyday [...]
At last spring is within sight in Sweden and after working way too much during the past year I finally can do something else with my time than spending it on a train or at work. I intend to make as much of it as possible before the next job starts. Which basically means sleeping [...]
The new version of the “I sublimate my rage…” cross stitch is progressing. I’ve got a lot left to do, but here’s a sneak peek:
A cross stitch I made of a quote from Bitterstitch.com. I’m considering if I should add something more, like a border or something, but I’m not sure. I’m pretty restless at the moment, so we’ll see if I’ll ever do it or just move on to some of the projects I have in mind…
When I design my cross stitches I love to look in old sampler books for inspiration, and I want to share a veritable treasure of samplers I found a while ago: Antique pattern library. Loads and loads of beautiful old patterns, scanned and made into PDF files, free to download! And there’s not only patterns [...]
My latest finished work, one that I’ve been wanting to make for a while: a quotation of the Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran. It says “It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.”
(Cross stitch and back stitch, size about 20 x 14 cm.)
The cross stitch ninja, a kind of self portrait I guess.
This is my first attempt at embroidering something other than cross stitch and I’m pretty happy with the result.
(More of my work can be seen at my Flickr page.)
/Cross stitch ninja
I found cross stitch patterns for this and a couple others of Banksy’s images at Fuldesign.se. I love street art, so these are of course two of my favorite things combined!
/Cross stitch ninja
"Play so that you may be serious" - Aristotle
