FROM STUDIO MEEZ.

Received from Studio Meez in Belgium, March 3th.

My textile letter from Studio Meez have arrived and I love it!

I have been following the blog of Studio Meez for a while and I deceided to invite her to participate in my projects of textile letters. I am so happy for this as I have got a package full of treasuries.
Love Love Love!

In the family of Studio Meez all of the women likes to work with there hands, from knit to sewing to crochet to quilt and bobinlace. WOW!

The amazing letter from Studio Meez.

I love this old drawings of how to make a pattern for sewing. It's very graphic and in a way also very textile like. 

Studio Meez is a graphic designer, illustrator and creator. If you are interested in the work from Studio Meez, it can be purchased here. I really love it. This bear is part of 5 postcards from Cirque de Meez.

Like me Studio Meez is in love with wool.

The ribbon with grey and the little grey wooll with yellow arround goes nicely together.

I would like to thank you for sending me all these lovely treasuries. As I have feel in love with your bear on the postcard, it's now hanging at my studio.

FROM HERMINE.

Received from Hermine in Belgium, February 24.

This is my third letter from Hermine and I feel so lucky to have her as my textile letter penpal.
Hermine is such an amazing person with lots of projects going on at the same time. Her personal blog; Journal de Jours, Words for Strangers which I am of course participating in and Walk Walk Walk amoung others.

The textile letter were divided into two. This is flowers and leafes in fabrics.

The second were bobinlace.
Hermine is so sweet and this is the second time she has send me bobinlace. She has told me she were so lucky and found an old book full of bobinlace.

Dear Hermine, I want to thank you for all these treasuries.
The bobinlace is already hanging at my studios wall together with the others you have send me.

FROM SARA.

Received from Sara in Sweden, February 23.

I saw Sara writing a note on wide eyed tree's blogpost about my textile letter, so therefore I invited Sara to participate in my little project.
Sara have the most wonderful blog; Snövits Apple full of beautiful photos. I love it.

Sara lives in Uppsala close to Stockholm and makes the most beautiful jewelry, inspired by vintage and fairytales. She works in an antique shop and like me she loves visiting fleamarkets. Sometimes she goes to Copenhagen and last time she visit the market behind the cityhall of Frederiksberg. That fleamarket is also one of my favorites.
Right now Sara is collecting antique frames where she wants to put in pictures of fairytales. I think it's a lovely idea and would love to see the result one day.
Sara loves to read and some of her favorite books are Brideshead by Jane Eure, Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf and Rebecca by Dapne du Maurier.

My textile letter from Sara with butterflies.

 Doilies in crochet.

My favorite part of the letter. An old postcard. I love the way it has been made with the very soft colors of grey shades together with green, red and pink. So beautiful. It is already hanging on my studios wall.

A pretty brooch, now also hanging in my studio.

Soft old wool around a card with a cat on.

Sara had made me a nice card from a buttom and different kinds of paper doilises.

Dear Sara, I want to thank you for your beautiful textile letter.

FROM CLAUDIA.

Received from Claudia in Austria, February 4th.

I like looking at other creative peoples blogs and this is how I found Claudia, also know as Wide Eyed Tree. I invited Claudia to participate in my little projects of textile letters, and luckily for me she accepted.
Claudia makes many nice things, among others crochet rugs, pretty envelopes and so amazing hand-carved stamp or stempel. These I am really in love with. Here you can see the work from Wide Eyed.

Claudia is a graphic designer and she knew since childhood she wanted to be creative and work with her hands.

The beautiful letter from Claudia full of Spring colors. Lovely!

This envelop and card is special, it is not that big, but it is so pretty.

A card and envelop made by Claudia with tea pots. I love the two light pink colors she have used in this design. When opening the envelop the logo of Wide Eyed comes, what a wonderful detail.

Another beautiful envelop by Andy Warhol.

Inside the envelop the colorfull card with greetings from Claudia.

A piece of textile full of Spring and happiness and a black/white card. I simple love the motif.

Dear Claudia, thank you so much for your amazing letter full of treasuries. Your envelop is hanging in my studio. I am so happy I have found somebody who likes moo minicard as much as myself.

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.

FROM JOY.

Received from Joy in USA, January 21.

A beautiful textile letter have come to me.
Joy lives in Colorado near the beautiful Rocky Mountains with her husband Brian and two children; Ian and Cora. She have been weaving since 2006.

Joy sended me a lot of beautiful items and I have made a little selection here.
The scarf to the left is in silk and Joy have handdyed it with onion skins.

In the fall Joy visited Japan with her husband and the white ribbon flowers is from there. It almost looks like a bracelet together with the two others I wear.

A woven sample from a scarf in Tsumuguto silk by Avril made by Joy in color effect. I really like this kind of weaving.

Beautiful recycled silk yarns. The colors are so fascinating.

The letter from Joy with two small handmade flowers.

Small buttons from Mongolia. These are used to be put on there traditional clothes. When I shake them, they make a beautiful sound.

Dear Joy, thank you so much for your textile letter.