A little bit of DIY & remake.
Took a custom made smaller flightcase, normally used for fragile music equipment when you travel on tour.
Very good for my purpose! It has a padded interior.
Covered the foam with a colorful fabric. Used textile glue to make the fabric stick to the surface on the bottom part of the box.
Covered buttons in the lid.
Voilá - new sewing box! Heavy duty on the outside & cute on the inside :)
You all know I have made 3D pieces with filetcrochet and sugarwater :)
Today I started a new Flickr pool called Starch it!
My plan is for you all to join in and we can explore what we can make with this technique together.
You don't have to crochet - you can use pieces of old Doilys, filetcrocheted bedspreads & other flea market finds. We can share recipes of starch (I only know about sugar/water but I've heard about glue and potato/water etc)
What do you say?
I would love if you joined me ! Just email me or make a comment here with your email and I send you an invite to the group.
Kind crocheted regards from Inger Carina
The Craftzine blog liked the idea. I'm so excited!!! :) > Craftzine blog
A little more flowers in your life can't hurt... can it?
Started out with a 2Gb Usb memory stick - boring boring... had to cut of a plasic bit on the end and smooth the edges with a file.
Then I crocheted tight around it in two pieces, one top & one bottom. I used embroidery yarn (Perl) multi colored green. A little bit of what I fancy = flowers. I took linnen embroidery yarn and made random tiny leafs and flowers. (click on the image for a better view).
It's working well and it nearly blends in to the floral background here on my work desk at home.
Hello! I'm still alive :)
Unfortunately I have to many things to do right now.. But I'm working on two mini craft projects - hope to finish and post them this week.
Hope everyone is having a good time in the summer weather!
♥
Inger Carina
Sold our beloved retro pram this week - goodbye farewell lovely pram! - go and nurse a new cute baby.
Sometimes you don't want the stuff for children (or other products) they sell in the stores because it has A LOT OF strange prints that you don't like :)
My quick tip for today is: Unpick the seams, save ribbons with buckles, elastic ribbons etc cut out new fabric from the pieces and sew it all back together again in a fabric that you like.
Maybe you have a nice fabric -- make a remake.
A pram for the dolls and a bouncy seat that I've made new fabric for that suits better with our style & taste.
If you are in the Stockholm area please come by and visit this exhibition at Gallery Operatingplace at PUB floor 3. I'm Carina Bergholm Sundén (alias Inger Carina) :-)
Gallery Operatingplace
New Exhibition fr 29 maj - 23 juli
A STATE OF CONTENT
- A SELECTION OF EXTRA ORDINARY SCANDINAVIAN ART
Marianne Lindberg De Geer
Carina Bergholm Sundén
Lukas Göthman
Vanna Bowles
Helena Mutanen
Peter Svedberg
Heinrich Müllner
Filippa Barkman
Marcus Bjernerup
Hanna Beling
Lars Hammarström
Kjartan Slettemark
LOD
Tanja Malo
Opening Thursday May 29, 17-20 GalleriyOperatingplace, PUBs floor 3, Hötorget, Stockholm. Other days open Mon-Fri 10-19, Sat 10-17, Sun 11-17.
Gallery Operatingplace
PUB Floor 03
Hötorget
Stockholm
My moly has two parts; one part with the normal paper to drew on and one part with a long piece of fabric to make something textile on. I have started with a comic type drawing of my "not so glamorous week" with title: "En diskbänksrealistisk vecka". If I translate this Swedish expression to English it would be close to: "A kitchen-sink-realistic week" :)
I scanned the images rather big so you can click on them to read the text. This one here has an English translation:
Here is my embroidered image on the fabric part of my moly.
now with beaded sushi rice...
The view from my studio window.
Colorful goodie bag
Copic marker & digital camera Cozys
All of them actually fit inside . I love my Copics! 
LOVE ribbons! - especially vintage. Want to put ribbons on everything.
Tried to come up with new things to make with ribbon.............but only the same-old-same-old came to mind :)
Flowers, like they had on the rococo-dresses in the 1700's. I want to make a copy of a dress like that sometime - and one for my 5 year old daughter too.
( :-D I saw a picture in my head of my chubby 10 months girl in one of thouse frilly dresses!)
Velvet ribbon makes great leaves!
Roses on a stem... 
Maybe you remember this post from November about my playing with 3D crochet. I did 24 squares and they have been lying here in a basket. Now I put them together and made a bag out of them, because I found these handles at a flea market. Put a Japanese cotton fabric in as lining.
Crocheted moon landscape
Finished bag. Approx 30 x 25 cm (12" x 10").
It's based on a standard (a bit "tweaked" & changed) granny square.
Japanese printed cotton fabric lining.
Not my colors though.... I need something extra colorful for spring. This is more suitable for the fall/winter collection.
Got some questions how I made this.
So this i my attempt to explain in English - bear with me:)
First & second row is crocheted with what we call velvet yarn. Third row some kind of Angora mega hairy yarn and the last row ordinary wool yarn.
To achieve the bulky effect and keep the work square I did as follows:
With velvet yarn I crocheted 5 double crochet in a group and took the hook out of the last chain. Then put the hook trough the top-chain of the groups first double crochet and put the last chain on the hook again. Pulled the yarn through it all to bind the top of all 5 of the double crochet's tight together.
Hope it made some sense :)
Kind regards Inger Carina
Went to Dalarna and fetched Michael's granma's kitchen sofa - I put new fabric on it and painted it sometime in the early 90's, which resulted in a blue sofa with checked blue/gray fabric. Nothing I like nowadays :)
With a stapelgun and a super cute pink floral oilcloth from Mingla design it took me 4 minutes to make our kitchen ready for spring.
Voilà - Spring kitchen!
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? :)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
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.
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