Time for a trip!

 I started in my second year of Bookbinding at the Academy and this is one of my trials for a long-stitch binding. A piece of thick felt and wool coloured and made by some woman from Aayacucho-Perú.

So happy with my bag of Peruvian wool...in all kind of colours!

Interesting to combine making books with some embroidery.
Time for a trip I guess with this little diary?

The knitted week

 My Edelweiss is growing in our little garden! Don't know why but I couldn't leave this little plant in the gardencenter last time. It has something weird...is it a flower or a succelent or may'be it will grow as a tree? We will see! Meanwhile I'm finishing this schoolyear and also my course 'Making Books'. So finishing my last projects with the little time I have and here a little view of the cover I designed for a book named 'Ou est- ce?', a book about all lovely places, natural parcs, monuments and things in this world. I tried to embroider the title. I'm a newby! Last saturday I surrounded myself again with more nature and more yarn! In the garden of Hanna we came together to knit with a group of girls. Anna-Denise brought us together on an Etsy Lab and with the help of Emilie and Johanna we started our little knit-project! Oooooh, this place, that energy, those people and that atmosphere gave me so much inspiration to start knittig again after years!

Thank you so girls! And Brussels is truly a very beautiful place full of creativity!

It was sooooooo nice and knitty!

x

Photo /Emilie Danel

Photos / Anna Denise van der Reijden 

Some minutes

Every evening the sun enters the living room...straight upon our blue wall she lays herself down on the Peruvian embroidered carpet and brings me some incredible intimate light-show :)

Love those minutes!

Sakura to Santiago

I finished the Sakura embroidery and made together with a piece of grey felt a little bag of it. That bag will travel soon from Pamplona to Santiago de Compostella with a friend of me on her walking adventure. I hope she can collect little treasures in it on the way to.The little buttons are Tagua nuts I brought from Perú. Let's see if they reach Santiago :)

Feeling Stitchy

My best friend gave me a super-present the day my exhibition opened!
A stitch-frame!
Since months I was following different blogs and sites about embroidery and things like that. It always attracted me and now with my own frame I started finally doiing something...just a doodle of my Sakura-design to search my way into it. It goes well, it is relaxing me and also attracts Dalí in some way :). One day he will start creating too I guess. That boy is following me wherever I go! Now, we are feeling very stitchy and happy!

Take a look on this very inspiring website : Feeling Stitchy
And the work of Jillian Tamaki is ...incredible!