Smart Textillek för SmĂ„ – A Nursery Workshop

Play with thermochromics and lots of excitement: a perfect way of describing my two workshops last week. I work as a Textile Researcher a long side my illustration and print agency ‘House of Helmi’. I held a workshop at a nursery on Wednesday and Friday. The workshop was called  ‘Smart Textillek för SmÄ’ (‘Smart Textile Play for Wee Ones’), and was aimed at children between 3-6 years. …

International Yarnbombing Day

It was International Yarnbombing Day this Saturday just past and of course this is something worthy of celebration ! So my family and I went to Ystad to take part in tagging their market square, through the event ‘SĂ€tta fĂ€rg pĂ„ Stortorget i Ystad‘. I love the idea of Yarnbombing or Yarn Graffiti, to allow for the public and the more traditional domestic sphere …

VĂ€vpoesi & LundaPride

VĂ€vpoesi Weaver in Action, Photo: Rosa Rydahl Just before start Thanks to everyone who came and shared your messages and expressed your thoughts about ‘Solidarity, Equal Value and Natural Affiliation’ (gemenskap, lika vĂ€rde och sjĂ€lvklar tillhörighet) at LundaPride and Stenkrossen last weekend. What a great day it was! – with lots of celebration and party-mood. Together, we created a substantial bit of VĂ€vpoesi (Poetic …

Flower Inspiration

I LOVE flowers. I love all the colours, textures, shapes and fragrances they offer. They can be sensual, bold, breathtaking, abundant, airy, raw and spiky. They can be beautiful when arranged tone-in-tone or when, like this, they are mixed in all their loveliness.  Flowers simply make me smile. I think that’s why it’s one of my big inspiration sources when I work with patterns …

VĂ€vpoesi – Material Cutting Day

Lots and lots and lots of strips of old clothes… this is parts of the result of yesterday’s work. I have been cutting and tearing strips so that you all can come and create some VĂ€vpoesi (Poetic weaving) through writing on and weaving in these strips into the collective weave at Stenkrossen at LundaPride this Saturday. I like re-using material. …