Mmmmm thats more like it! Brilliant colors!

More my range of colors

Colorful grannies

My house is filled with this 4 to 6 piece patches - any suggestions what to make out of all the test-patches you produce during a crafting lifetime? :)

Experimenting with surfaces

Working with crocheted surfaces. Trying to make fun and interesting textures. Here is a test that I kind of like so I made a little bag out of it. The colors are, as you know by now, a little bit to subtle for my taste :) I continue to experiment

At last, I'm done moving in to my new studio! I've decided - Wednesdays is textile craft day! Hopefully this will result in MUCH more postings with new craftprojects here. See you soon.

I know --- to many images of material and no crafting :) But just a few more photos today because it's like a candy shop here :-) mmmmm.

International Moleskine exchange

Hope you have seen the link on the right to my moly-exchange group. This is a wonderful project started by Marty Harris.
20 groups of 3-8 artists are sending Moleskine Japanese foldout sketch books to each other around the world. Read all about it on http://www.flickr.com/groups/moly_x/

My group is moly_x_16
Was doodling about it in my sketch book and came to the conclusion that I will sew in a long piece of fabric in my book. This way my "moly_x_16-friends" can work and sketch with tread or another textile technique.

I'm as always very excited :)

Wizard of Oz-fabric & Print-on-demand textile

Fabric shopping on the net at a break from my BIG studio swap. Everything took SOO much more time than I expected. Off course - things like this does.
The movers are coming on Tuesday and my new desk and other things are deliverd to the new studio, from IKEA, on Monday. Now all my craft supplies are in boxes so I did som inspiration-surfing in the webshops:
The Wizard of Oz photo fabrics!
Dorothyprints from Karen's shop Anna Lena's , Long Beach USA. This print is so lovely and superfun! Bought one more Oz-pattern. You can see that one by clicking on the image below with all the fabrics on.

Found a bunch of SUPER CUTE small-printed fabric from Japan at Nuno. I couldn't stop myself. Prints like this gives me inspiration to stay up at night makeing my own patterns with Illustrator :-)

Click on this image for a larger view. Enjoy all these marvelous prints!

I have been looking for a company that makes print-on-demand fabric printing. Found one (First2Print) but when I calculated on the price it turned out to be REALLY expensive, like $800 for 5meters or something like that. Found another one in Spain (DigitalTextile). Haven't contacted them about their prices yet. I will continue looking. Have done a lot of handprinting but now I would like to order my prints from somebody.

I would love to hear if you have any tips on this subject ! :-)
Kind Regards /Inger Carina

Moving my studio. It's Craft Chaos!

I'm moving to a new studio this week. It's very exciting, but it's also A LOT of work cleaning up and putting everything in boxes. Right now it's a total chaos here.
I am a big collector - fabric, beads, patterns from the 50's-80's etc. I Love to pat my piles of fabric like pets :) this is one of my favorite shelfs with vintage colorful prints (and some new with the same "graphic feel" from for example IKEA)
When you clean up and go through all the stuff it's like an archeological (is that a word?) field survey. You make finds - like my collection of vintage aprons! Hadn't seen them in a while and I got really inspired from their cuteness. I will make a photo presentation of them later for you all, so you also kan enjoy them :)

I miss Paris

Working with a big web-project today. Took a break and visited my blog-roll favorites. Found this tip to add borders to your images (online service) at How about orange's delicious blog.

It's a sketch I made in Paris of me & Birgitta as hedgehogs again :), also taking a break, at a café in Marait where we lived. I wish I was there now.....
Back with some more crafting without the computer soon! Se you later.. /Inger Carina

Blue Guy's visit to Stockholm

If you want to see the images from Blue Guy's adventures in Stockholm, Working Mom Knits has posted them over at her blog. These pictures was taken when it still was the warmest winter in 250 years. Stockholm in the spring! Now it's a normal winter, but to late. Brrr. It took us 10 hours to drive home 400km yesterday (normally 4-5h) Nearly had to stay over night in Norrköping because of the traffic/snow chaos.

Crocheted wallpaper continues

Continuing the task to try to crochet something that resembles my beloved bedroom wallpaper. I went agains my principles, to not buy new material (have to much already in stock) and bought two new colors that are closer to the ones on the wall than the ones I had in my stash. Getting closer now. It starts to look a little bit like the wallpaper .

The snow reflects the sunshine so the colors becomes very vibrant in the image. Took it outside on this sunny "winter"(!?) day at Öland.

This vacation I brought some Craft projects. Happy Easter!

We are at our summer home on the beautiful island Öland, south east (400km) of Stockholm. This vacation I didn't forget to bring some craft projects.

When we came yesterday it was spring and nice. But now it's a snowstorm !(?).

If you like vitage craft you have to visit this blog!

You just have to visit Cathy of California's blog! She is posting images from the funniest vintage 50-70's craftbooks I have ever seen!! :-D
She is also heavy in to loom flowers. It's a great blog!

More Loom flower Daisies

I don't know where I'm going with this experiment yet. Made small Daisies out of thick wool yarn (Lovikka). This yarn is normally used for really heavy winter mittens.
I like them better without the green border.

On to the next! See you soon!

No more gLoomy days! It's spring!

Have been thinking hard about what to do with the loom flower project I wanted to start. Sketching about it. Nothing felt right. Until I did this sketch.
This is a typical Inger project isn't it? Fun to make but makes no sense at all.
Can I pull this off, wearing this swim cap? Can you see me at the beach this summer? :-D

I love Daisies. They are so sweet looking. Had a couple of rolls of plastic ribbon (don't know the word for this product in english). Made a test and it was so much fun! Ended up with a little pile of plastic Daisies.

Loom-Zoom

This makes me SOOO happy!!! Look at this cap! I love it. Have to buy a green swimsuit :-D.

I have so much to do right now. I'm sorry.

Hello my friends. I'm sorry that I haven't posted anything lately but I have so much to do right now. I start to see the end of it now so I hope to be able to Craft in a couple of days.
Thank you all for checking in on me!
Wish I could craft............ sooooon
Kind regards
Inger Carina