FROM JULIE.

Received from Julie in Holland, June 2012.

Julie has the amazing blog Daisies & Daffodils with the most pretty photos. I like to visit often.

She lives in Haarlem, close to Amsterdam. Today she is working in a bank, being creative with numbers. In her free time she likes to draw, do crochet, write letters and work on little projects. As she writes: "many ideas, only little time, always work in progress".

The envelope itself is a piece of art. I so much love the flowers.

This tiny little button Julie has sent me is so amazing, beautiful and pretty. I wish I had a lot. There is so much detail in the embroidery stitches. I would like to make some of these too.

Other buttons which is pretty together.

Julie’s boyfriend is from Portugal and every year they visit his family. The Portuguese stamps with a lot of details are fantastic. Some look like tiles.

The beautiful letter full of surprises from Julie.

Dear Julie, thank you so much for your letter. The tiny little embroidered button is already hanging on my hall.

FROM SABINE.

Received from Sabine in Germany, May the 29.

I have got a letter without words from Sabine.
I know Sabine through her flickr Virginhoney. Sabine is an artist and illustrator and some of her work can be seen here, here, here and here. I really think her work is full of poetry and there is so much fairytale in it too. Love, love, love.

The beautiful package from Sabine. Everything from the fabric to the little card to the small tags is amazing.

Inside the package I found a flat little box with colorful fabric squares on. And inside that  two envelopes made of transperant paper. Again with a square on.

The letter from Sabine is full of joy, Summer, colors and sweetness. I love the mix of squares in different kinds of combinations.
There were actually six candyes in the letter, but I have a very sweet tooth and when opening the letter, I ate two and after the photoshoot all is gone. Yummi!

Dear Sabine, thank you so much for your lovely letter full of joy. I will hang the squared fabric in my studio.

FROM CÉLINE.

Received from Céline -Bohème Circus in France, May the 18.

I have got such a lovely letter from Céline who writes the stunning blog Bohème Circus. I invited Céline to take part of my textile letters and I'm so happy for her letter. Mine to her can been seen here.

Céline is in love with paper and her dream is to open an online shop. She likes the magic of the paper, because it's a material convertible and so rich in possibilities. It's the medium to exchange mail and it can be the basic material to create sculptures.

The letter from Céline.

An association between paper and fabric; sewing in the paper.
The stitches is so fine and the coral colored buttons is so sweet and nice.

Zig zag paper. It remeinds me of twill, the second basic weaving technique.

Print on a paper.

Fabric and a mother of pearl button on paper.

The paper to the right have the most beautiful 3-d effect. Almost like a textile. And to the left a tiny little envelope.

Inside the tiny little envelope were these yellow leafes and the stickers in cobber.

The letter from Céline written on transperant paper. So beautiful!

Dear Céline, thank you so much for your pretty and lovely letter. I have putted the zig zag paper on my wall in my studio and the coral buttons.

FROM AVALANCHE LOOMS.

Received from Susan Johnson -Avalance Looms in Usa, May the 11.

I am in love with my new textile letter from Susan. It's so amazing, colorful and pretty. Love it!

Susan taught herself to weave in 1981 when she had her first daugther Ursula. She and her husband built a new weaving workshop and farm store in 2000, on their farm in Avalanche, Wisconsin. It's built on the site of the old barn foundation, in the former goose lot. The style of the building is a traditional Swedish plan, red and white. Please visit her page here. It's my dream to live in a house like that one day.

If you want to purchase some of Susan's weavings you can do it through her etsy shop Avalanche Looms.

Susan is in love with the rag weaving, it preocupies her. She likes the mystery of not knowing who have made the ragrugs and collect old ones. I have one from Morocco, you can see it here.

My dream letter from Susan.
Susan writes to me that textile letters reminds her of when she was a little girl and ordered an envelope of sewing trims from an address in the back of her mothers Vogue Patterns magazine. Inside the envelope were pieces of ribbon, ric-rac, seam bindings ect.

A little kasuri sample in silk with cute washi tape on.

Inside a beautiful woven sample in the most stunning Spring colors.

I usually weave in black-grey-white and have recently started to make embroidery again, this in more colorful colors. I have always been afraid to weave colorful, but now I have deceided to start, as I can see how the colors interact with each other in such a beautiful way, because of this sample. Thank you!

The ribbon from Laura Foster is amazing. Using your leftovers from either weaving or printing in this way, is a fantastic idea.

Pretty structures and colors in a rag.

In her farmstore at Avalanche Looms, Susan sells books, toys, housewares and textiles. She is crazy in love with Scandinavian design and designers. Earlier she has been selling textiles from Maharem which is part of the Kvadrat group, where I am a free-lance textile designer. My work from Kvadrat can be seen here.

A nice little ribbon.

Two cards from Susan and Avalanche Looms.
Susan ends her letter with: One good husband, 3 lovely children, a charmed life. I hope I will be able to say the same one day.

Dear Susan, your letter and your words means everything to me. So many of your treasury is going to be hanging in my studio.

FROM ALESSANDRA.

Received from Alessandra in Italy, April the 13.

I have got a letter full of Spring, thanks to Alessandra.
Alessandra is a woman of many talents. She is a freelance stylist and journalist and have the most amazing blog; Design your life. I love following it, as the photos of her HARU is so beautiful and fragile in the same time.

If you are interested you can find Alessandra's beautiful items on her etsy shop. This is what she writes:
"This is a little place where you can find pretty and lovely things: buttons, vintage treasures, jewels, greeting cards and other handmade things. ▲ NOW ON SALE: a little selection of vintage jewelry; accessories and pincushions handmade with new, vintage and second-hand fabrics, hand crocheted jewels, vintage buttons. ▲ COMING SOON: others vintage necklaces and buttons garlands".

I have just come across the design files blog where Alessandra have been a guest blogger last year during the Milan Design Week; Walking through Milan. It is such a wonderful blogpost. Love it!

My pretty letter full of Spring.

Alessandra wrotes me the most nice letter, on a brown piece of paper. Here in Denmark we call it  "kardus papir". They way the whole letter is put together is very nice and I like this kind of old fashion way in a new way.

She likes: nordic europe - snow - dried leafs - japan - analogic photos - polaroid's - flowers and spring - handmade jewels - vintage button's - looms - origami - old typewriter's - cherry blossom - haiku - cappuccino - recycled paper - have a dinner with friends - travelling - textiles and fabrics - vintage - walk with nude feet - winter sea - sewing - chigno's - music - basic clothes - my daughter anna - my fiancè luca - design - creme fraiche - handmade bread

Old vintage buttons. On one side is mother of pearl and on the other side there is a little touch of green.

An old thimble with flowers together with two tiny button's.

My own polaroid HARU photo. So fragile.

Dear Alessandra, I want to thank you for your pretty letter. Instead of hanging something from your letter in my studio, I am going to sew your beautiful vintage button's onto a cardigan I have, as I really adore these mother of pearl button's.

FROM OLGA.

Received from Olga in Russia, March the 29.

My textile letter from Olga is so amazing.
Eventhough I don't really know Olga in person face-to-face, there is something about her letter to me and her blog which reminds me of each other, and this is why I think I have got to know Olga even more than a face-to-face meeting.
Olga's blog and her letterwriting is so fragile and I'm so happy to get to know her.

My letter from Olga.

Olga have a White Room, where you can purchase her fantastic jewellry and her prints of watercolor work. Here is an iris and I have putted it together with a perlehyacint, thats what we called in Danish. I think they goes nicely together.

In Danish this little bird is called a Gulspurv. Also a print of a watercolor from Olga's shop. I think the details in the watercolor is so beautiful and it's like I can touch the little bird.

A pretty little blockprint.

Solid colors are so beautiful light.

This blue indigo and white cotton fabric is usually used as towels in the trains of Russia. Simpel, but still so classic!

A little note from Olga to me!!

Olga have been collecting tapes for a long time, and here is a little collection.

These two are my favorites. Especially the simpel white one with the black stripe in a 3-d effect would look nice on a dress.

Full of Spring and happiness. These tapes are so amazing.

Dear Olga, thank you for your fragile textile letter to me, your little bird will soon be hanging at my studio.