Category Archives: Inspiration

Sunshine

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This table runner is called Sunshine, a fitting name for the warm yellow shades that characterize the embroidery.

The finished embroidery measures 36 x 66 cm (approximately 14 x 26 inches) and is stitched on 8-count linen fabric using both cross stitch and outline stitch techniques. Three strands of DMC floss were used in the needle.

The design is created as a free-form embroidery and consists of three randomly placed areas of cross stitch. Around these sections, outline stitches have been embroidered in various shades of yellow, creating movement and bringing the design to life.

The outline stitches wind across the fabric like delicate swirls. The sheen of the DMC floss highlights the stitches and gives the embroidery a beautiful texture and a vibrant, dimensional appearance.

Horizontal

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“Horizontal” is a wall hanging embroidered on linen with 10 threads per cm.

The piece is worked in full and half cross stitches, as well as outline stitch.

The finished embroidery measures approximately 142 × 39 cm.

The motifs are abstract and horizontal in character, and the entire composition is brought together by a strong vertical yellow field.

Gold

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This embroidery was created using a mix of various gold thread scraps and flora-cotton thread in color no. 507.

Finished dimensions: approximately 56 x 32 cm. Stitched on linen canvas (8 threads per cm) with techniques such as full and half cross-stitch, couched goldwork, and backstitch.

The process was a playful exploration of free imagination, without a set plan, and it was a joy to work with gold threads of many different qualities.

Silver (2024)

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A small runner made with many different remnants of silver thread. The stitch types are half cross stitch and contour stitch. The dots are made with leftovers of flora-cotton yarn and gold and are sprinkled in the middle of the embroidery. These are embroidered with full cross-stitches and stitches.

Embroidered on linen canvas (8 threads/cm).

Finished dimensions approx. 65 x 29 cm.

Development

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This work is based on a pattern I designed in 2008. It can be used as a hanger or table runner. Finished dimensions approx. 24 x 88 cm. Made on linen canvas (8 threads per cm). Full cross-stitches have been used for the motif, and half cross-stitches for the background.

Context

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This can be used as a wall hanger or table runner. Finished dimensions approx. 132 x 19 cm. Made on linen canvas (7 threads/cm). Embroidered using cross stitches and contour stitches. A remnant of linen yarn is tied on like tassels. The fabric is divided so that there are areas for embroidery, and areas where all the crossthreads are pulled out.

Grandma’s Leftover Yarn

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I have transformed a large amount of yarn scraps of different quality into an embroidered work: four panels, and a small tablecloth.

The panels are called: “Flowers”, “Pharmacy”, “Wood” and “Serotonin”. The tablecloth is called “Fragments”.

Each of the four panels measures approx. 118 x 32 cm. They can be used separately as a table runner. The tablecloth measures approx. 66 x 47 cm.

It is all made on linen canvas (8 threads per cm.), and is embroidered with two threads in the needle. Contour stitches are used throughout.

First, I divided the yarn scraps into four equal piles, sorted by size. The colors were also sorted.

It was fun to come up with a theme for each panel, and to stick to the pile of yarn scraps that each panel had been assigned.

The tablecloth stands out more clearly in the colors. There is only one shade for each motif. The panels have had all possible shades mixed together, and of large and small scraps. Then the colors mix, almost like when you paint.

Spring 1999

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Withered leaves, snow and spring flowers on the rise.

Small embroidery, 29 x 29 cm. Made on 12 threaded linen canvas. Contour stitches, cross stitches and petit point have been used.

Orchid

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Small table runner, approx. 25 x 50 cm.

Embroidered on 8 thread/cm linen canvas with flora-cotton and golden thread from DMC. Whole and half cross stitches have been used.

The background stripes are based on 338 decimals of pi.