Today is Syttende Mai, or Norwegian Constitution Day, the national day of Norway. Two years ago on this day, I was in Bergen on the west coast of Norway, watching the parade, and talking with Anna, who happened to stand next to me on the roadside. Anna was a local who was so lovely […]
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I’ve started a new project, just for fun. The technique I am using is new to me. It is smøyg, which is a Norwegian form of pattern darning. It is used in black and white as part of the Hardanger vinterbunad (winter bunad) and with the addition of colour as part of the Øst Telemark […] If you missed them, you can read parts 1 and 2. Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden On our holiday, The Husband and The Reader left about a week earlier than The Gymnast and I did, and went to Amsterdam. The Reader really enjoyed using a new camera to take lots and lots of beautiful black and white […] Yesterday Facebook told me that I hadn’t posted anything to my Vetty Creations Facebook page in a whole FIVE DAYS. Quelle horreur! So I remedied that by posting the following gorgeous photo. Image by Riwnodennyk [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. This is an embroidered shirt in the collection of the Ivan Honchar […] When I was in Norway last year, I spent some time with Agnete Sivertsen, curator at Hardanger Folkemuseum in Utne. Agnete is very knowledgable and we spent some enjoyable hours talking about Hardanger embroidery and about teaching people how to do it the traditional way. Things like that the needle woven bars should be NARROW, […] The other day I had a strange email from my mother which said simply, “Google Tentmakers of Cairo”. So, like the dutiful daughter I am, I did just that. WOW! Thanks Mum! I won’t make you Google it, I’ll just give you the link, and it is definitely worth following. Tentmakers of Cairo. Take a […] In my travels around the web I’ve seen more things this week that might also interest you. Please note, for the sake of those who think that I spend my time looking for interesting links for you, these are just things I’ve come across in my daily needlework life. They’re things that have cropped up […] Sometimes a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. Last night and this morning I’ve been poring over the many photos I took on my trip to Mystery Country earlier this year. I’ve been trying to figure out the counting of some stitches. I knew a little about some of these stitches already from […] It was so interesting reading the responses to my post on the blog and its repost on the Vetty Creations Facebook page yesterday. Thank you for all the responses – they were very thought provoking. Some of you really tried to think laterally about how I might be able to not go on my research […] Happy New Year! Yes, I realise that I’m a few days late, but just yesterday we arrived home from a family break in Canberra. We drove down on the day after Christmas (known as Boxing Day here in Australia), much to the chagrin of my sister in law who thought that we were mad heading […] |
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