FROM EMILY.

Received from Emily in Australia, July 2012.
Emily wrote and asked me if she could join my textile letters. She loves all sort of vintage items; from postcards to buttons to old clothes sewn into something new.

The whole letter from Emily.

Small pom poms put on a string. Perhaps for sewing onto a furniture.

I'm in love with the vintage postcards Emily have send me. This one is a little bit special, when turning it around I saw it was from Helsingør, here in Denmark. So in a way, this postcard have found it's way home again.

Emily have a button collection and the one she has send me is so fantastic. They are full of texture.

The patchwork in hexagonal are pieces Emily's Grandmother were going to make into a blanket. They are out of vintage materials, leftovers from the clothes her Grandmother made for her mother when she was a little girl. I feel so special that she has send them to me.

Dear Emily, thank you so much for your lovely letter. The buttons will soon be hanging in my studio.

FROM LISA.

Received from Lisa in U.S.A., June 2012.

I'm totally in love with Lisa's work and she write on her flickr this: "i make stuff. all kinds of stuff". I simple love these words.
Lisa lives in Oakland with her husband and there 3 year old daughter, together with two cats and dogs. She has her own studio where she work as a mixed media artist and makes graphic design projects. She has several blogs and I'm so impressed by her creativity and work. Follow her creative process here and here.
I have just right now found out that Lisa have made a book and it can be ordered through amazon and can also be seen here. It looks fantastic!

Her amazing letter.

Detail of Lisa's card. I love the details with the stars and - - - - -. If you have a look at Lisa webpage, there is a "red thread" in all.

A color chart for Gutermann 2011. This card is really special. I like the rainbow colors together with the drawings of the sewingthread.

The card which Lisa send to me. This kind of work can be seen on her flickr and this is the reason why I invited her into my textile letters, as I were hoping she would send me something like this.
To the right a screen print test from her. This pattern with the lines interacting into each other is an amazing piece of textile.

A feltet tank in light pink from an art installation she has made and a vintage crochet swap.

The whole letter were wrapped into this screen printed piece of fabric from her stash. The burnt orange color is so pretty. And a little vintage doily.

Dear Lisa, thank you so much for your lovely letter. Your screen print test will soon be hanging in my studio.

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 HERMINE.

Received from Hermine in Belgium, January 27.

My first textile letter ever have I received from Hermine from JOURNAL DE JOURS and now she has sent me one more. Right now Hermine is part of an exhibition at Huis van Alijn.
Hermine is a textile designer and she is working with so many fantastic and amazing projects. You can see some of her photos here.
The textile letter is divided into two. First part is Hermine's Words for Strangers project which I am now part of.

There is a little color theme; BLUE like indigo, which I love.
Hermine must some how know that I like the Boucherouite rags from Morocco, as the little card with red is one of these. Thank you.

The Words for Strangers project.
Hermine have send me this little package with notes, and some of them are empty for my own words. I am going to hang them on bikes, like she do, and take photos and send them back to her.

Pretty "old" photos from Huis van Alijn. I remember these kind of photos and have seen them in my grandmothers photo albums when I were a child. The white edge with the little zig zag reminds of the old times.

The second part of the textile letter was for me so touching and in a way it also took me  back in time.
First a little sample of Hermine's weaving in blue and white.



Hermine have found a book full of old bobin lace and so sweet as she is, she thought of me and sended me these beautiful pieces. Actually they are more than beautiful, pretty and amazing. They take me into another world of happiness.

They touched me, as my grandmother taught me to do bobin lace when I were 14 years. I still remember the evenings when I sat in her living room and she learned me how to do the spiders web. Later on when she became older she could not remember how to make it, and then it was me who had to help her to make the spiders web. It is because of this; bobin lace I am fascinated by the gauze weaving.

Dear Hermine, as I know you love cats a lot (from your photos), I am sending you a little sneak peak of my wonderful cat Osvald. He loves sleeping like here and he is now 14 years old. We have shared so many good things together, and he have always been there for me even when I have been sad. He is very special to me, so therefore this photo is for you.

Thank you so much for this so amazing letter. You already know how much it means to me with the bobinlace. These I will hang in my studio, as I like beeing surrounded by beautiful things that is close to my heart.