Street Threads / Gatutrådar
Time for some embroidery in the street! Nice happy colours and heavy threads! Dags för lite gatu-broderi! Snygga, glada färger och tjocka trådar!
Time for sketching! / Skissdax!
At last! After all these Christmas celebrations it’s time again to get some work done. Today I started doing some small sketches for work soon in progress. I also finished a new bowl. This one is called After eight. Because the black dots are made out of the wrapping paper of After Eight chocklade. Äntligen! Efter…
Trip to Stockholm – again / Ännu en tur till Stockholm
A very quick trip by train to Stockholm to see my friend Inger Carlssons exhibition. (Inger the one I did the workshops in Crete together with). She shows her work until the 23 rd December at Gallery Yamanashi. I just did a pot about it on my other blog, Fibertiger: http://www.henrietteousback.blogspot.se Jag har just varit…
Done some dyeing / färgat lite
Last week I finally did some dyeing of embroidery floss. Together with my friend, who’s done thread dyeing quite a lot, mostly woollen yarn for knitting, we took a day in her laundry room. This time we would tray dye cotton floss. In plastic trays we did som intricate arranging. Then we did everything according…
Workshop in beautiful Stockholm /Workshop i höstvackra Stockholm
Just back from Stockholm where I had a two day workshop, a workshop without a name. It was a continuation of the workshop mossa-mylla I had a year ago. It was a nice group of nine dedicated embroiderers, all of them i met last year, all of them with their own textile expression. Outside it…
Work in Progress / pågående arbeten
Started with and already finished a new bowl, a red one. Började med en ny skål, en röd en. Och den är redan klar.
Exhibition, Galleri Anna H / Utställning på Galleri Anna H
I’ve been so of the track with keeping the news flow up. Since last time, I’ve done several workshops and I did my solo show at Anna H Gallery in Gothenburg. Which was nice and did well. All the new pictures / objects I put up in the gallery part. jag har varit så himla…
Doing some weaving / Håller på att väva lite
A friend is moving and will never ever weave again. But there’s this loom with 15 meter ragrug-warp. I said I do it – So now I have to weave about four new rag-rugs. Haven’t done it for thirty years, but all the knowledge is still there. It’s so much fun! En väv som flyttar har en…
To express oneself in a material/ att uttrycka sig i ett material
The material was paper. A six days workshop at Blå stället, an exhibition hall in the Northern suburbs of Gothenburg. Three “oldies”, Lillemor Pettersson (ceramic artist), Mats Eskils (silver) and me join the first years art and craft students from HDK, School of design and Crafts, University of Gothenburg. The students were just wonderful to work with! Many different…
work in progress VI / arbete pågår del VI
The last piece is all finished, niecely stretched and ready to join piece one. That I will wit with until later. Andra delen av björkbilden är klar, färdigspänd och redo att sys ihop med del ett. Men det väntar jag med till senare.
Henriette Ousbäck 