young crafting

while at home in sweden this summer, i did a clean out in my parents' attic and found my first ever sewing project!

this masterpiece was made when i was around 9 and i believe it is supposed to look like balloons against a blue sky... ehm...yeah...

thankfully im abit better at the stitching these days, but i must admire the unconventional choice of colour combinations! turquoise, navy, orange, pink AND yellow- yes, well... why not?

sweden part two

vee speer
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fotografiska museet is the newly opened museum of photography in stockholm.
it is well worth visiting - at the moment they are exhibiting a big selection of
annie leibovitz's work, photographs by swedish photographer lennart nilsson,
as well as vee speer and anders petersen.
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i loved leibovitz's and lennart nilsson's images, but vee speer was my favourite. her photographs
may seem bright at first sight, but once you look closer they are very omnious and quite terrifying.
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lennart nilsson
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anders petersen
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vee speers

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sweden part one

view from my parents' house... nice, isnt it?.

crochet blanket part two - i finished it!

i finished the blanket! yay!
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im delighted with it, its a bit wonky and definitely not perfect, but completely made with love (and some frustration)!
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here is how i finished it off:
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once i had sewn together the squares, i added about 2 rows of doubles around the whole thing.
then a single row of trebles and on the next row after that, i put 3 trebles in each of the trebles
on the previous row (this achieves the lovely ruffled effect of the border). then a last row of
doubles again to make it abit more rigid and tada!

F-I-N-I-T-O!

now that im on a roll, the next project will definitely be a 100 square blanket! (cue boyfriend rolling his eyes..!)

blueberries

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a couple of weeks ago, myself and the boyfriend went blueberry picking in the woods of sligo. as a swede, blueberry picking comes quite naturally to me, but mr boyfriend has been claiming the title of master picker three times in a row now... hm... i suspect that he most certainly must be cheating, but i have yet to discover exactly how...

we ended up with a nice result of 2.5 kilos though, so who am i to complain! and soon the mushroom season is starting, lets see who will be the champion then! (that would be me!)
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