FROM LOTTE.

Received from Lotte -Belle Fleur de Lis in Belgium, June 2012.

I have been patience for a long time and finally my letter from Lotte have arrived, and I'm so happy. The waiting time was so worth it.

Lotte is an amazing young woman. She is right now attending bobbinlace classes, hoping one day to become a teacher in this amazing technique. Her wonderful blog Belle Fleur de Lis is so fragile and pretty. Lotte  combine her love for flowers, crochet and lace in this blog with the most stunning photos. I so much love it.

When opening the letter from Lotte, it took my breath away. She has made this, oh so beautiful package full of treasuries. I feel so special.

Lotte have made this doily which were going to be part of her Crochet Treasuries. The yarns she has used is a little crispy to the touch, and it gives a nice tactilily.

An old doily she has thrifted from a second hand shop in Antwerp, her favorite city.

Beautiful pressed flowers. The red Astrantia Major to the left is one of my favorites. In Denmark it's called Stjerneskærm. I so much like this name as Stjerne is a Star.

This doily is not so big. It is made of a combination of a glimmer /glitter yarn together with the light pink. So pretty.

Some of Lottes pretty photos. If you want to follow Lottes process of her flower inspiration into her crochet and bobbinlace work, please visit her flickr.

Lotte have also send me some of her more woolen crochet work, which is part of her pattern research.

The colors and the wool is a good combination.

Dear Lotte, I want to thank you for your amazing textile letter to me. The little glimmer /glitter doily is hanging in my studio together with the pressed flowers. And the doily you have made specially for me is in my home.

Thanks to you, I have signed-up for a bobbinlace class. I feel so happy.

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 KRISTINA.

Received from Kristina in Germany, June 2012.

Kristina writes to me that even when she was a little girl she has always been impressed by exceptional fibers, structures and techniques. She has always been knitting, crocheting and crafting.

She likes working with paper, linen, straw, crepe yarns, silk and wool.

If you want to see more of Kristina’s work you can find it here.

A beautiful sample with linen and overspun wool. Very pretty!

The card is full of the yarns Kristina likes to work with: Italian silk crepe, silver thread from Japan, Shifu –paper thread, straw, horsehair, llama –dyed with onion and homespun, paper thread from Japan.

A sample of towels with pep-border and homespun linen in the weft.

A sample of a mixed warp with inlay.

The weft is homespun soy silk and cotton. I’m impressed by all the homespun yarns Kristina makes and uses in her weavings.

I like the softness and the simple complexity in the inlay. A very beautiful sample.

Photos of woven textiles where the weft is straw.

Dear Kristina, thank you so much for your letter to me. The white sample in homespun soy silk is hanging in my studio.

FROM MONIKA,

Received from Monika in Scotland, June 2012.

In the beginning of June I received the most amazing natural textile letter from Monika. I have got to know Monika through her flickr red2white, but she also have a very nice blog. Monika comes from Slovakia, but lives with her husband and two children in Inverness. When Monika moved to Great Britain she learned to felt. She loves the process of the raw wool when it is transformed into a cloth. She likes cloth a lot and see felt just as one out of many.

If you want to purchase some of Monika's felted wool, you can do it here.

The full textile letter, all natural.

Homespun yarns made by Monika in naturally wool colors. So beautiful and full of texture.

I’m not sure what this is, it is very fragile. I’m so much in love with the structures, surfaces and colors.

A cloth of patcwork, where different kinds of fabrics have been sewn together. On top an eucaluptos leaves. The detail of the printed is so rich and full of details in the colors.

A little book with different kinds of wool felted. Each one gives a new expression.

Dear Monika, thank you so much for this so pretty and beautiful letter. The small fragile pieces will soon be hanging in my studio.

FROM FLAURETTE.

Received from Flaurette in France, May the 29.

A new fantastic letter have arrived in my mail box from Flaurette who have the most amazing blog Floddertje. All her photos is like a fairytale, full of mystery. I always love to visit her blog.
If you are interested in discovering more of Flaurette's work she is also on tumblr and pinterest.

Flaurette lives in a small house in an area which is well known for it's wine and delicious food -the best goat cheese EVER!! together with it's majestic castles. I love visiting old castles. They are so full of mystery and I always imagine how it was to live there, so many years ago.
Flaurette is studying Art History at the University and is at the moment achieving her second year of master. She is working on the writings of a belgian painter from the XIXth Century, her favourite historical period. Fascinating!

I have got a package full of papergoods and I love it!
Flaurette writes to me, my textile letter to her was like finding a Sunshine. It makes me so happy to hear.

My beautiful letter full treasuries.

 Flaurette's handwriting is so beautiful. Love!

Black and white photo and a quote by Benjamin Disraeli; Life is to short to be small.

Another black/white photo.

The pom pom's is from Holland where Flaurette is born.

Beautiful pressed lilac flowers. There is still a little bit of a lovely smell left in them.
I think they are from Flaurette's kitchen.

Pretty envelop folded of a comic magazine.

Dear Flaurette, thank you so much for this amazing letter full of treasuries. The quote is going to be at my studio wall later today.

Soon I will send you a new letter with histories and photos about my travels to Peru and Japan.

FROM KIM.

Received from Kim, shipbuilding in Australia, May the 21.

shipbuilding is such an amazing blog, and the owner Kim have just sended me this letter. I have been following shipbuilding for a while now and I always go in there, hoping Kim have made a new blogpost. Her photos, weavings, words, everything is so beautiful and I'm so happy we have started to exchange letters.

The letter from Kim, each piece is wrapped inside some handpaper paper. It was fantastic to cut off a little string and open.

The letter were written on a doily in paper. So pretty!

Weaving sample in twill in very fine silk and cotton.

Pretty transperant leafes like the Gauze weavings.

Beads!

Kim's card and some of her favorite yarns and colors. Pretty!

A little origami bird in gold and white paper.

Small strings from each little package.

Dear Kim, thank you so much for your lovely package. Your twill sample will soon be hanging 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.