Time to go!

Enjoying summer? Good. Today I worked my last day in a while and we will leave for Blidö in the morning. I need some time to play football, read, swim, bake foccacia, knit and write. In the meantime: you should really visit Manos at Överjärva gård and Eva´s exhibition at Karin´s wonderful workshop and shop!


Some of Eva´s great wirework
Photo by Karin Eriksson from her website.

For more information about the exhibition, visit Karin Eriksson´s blog or website.

See you all in a week or so.

Fabrics

All pictures above comes from the Purl Soho website and just happened to fall into my shopping cart. I have not bought them . Yet.

So. I had a lot of things to do today. Such as applying for some classes for this autumn, talking to my physician, writing a review of an artexhibition for Kravallslöjd, knitting at my swatches and so on. The applicationpart took me a bit over three hours. Hours I did not have, and the most frustrating thing of it all was when I finally got the verification on my application (after those three hours) the application website was updated with a message that the nationalapplicationdate has been moved to this friday. Grrr. Well. At least I am finished with my applications now. There are only evening, distance or part-time classes since I really want to work this autumn, but there is always room for learning something new. Got a suitable JOB for me, anyone? Part-time, fulltime - anything goes. Just e-mail me :-)

And also: Here is a link to a swedish article in Nerikes Allehanda
(showing a photograph of my friend Eva) on the workshop with Pasi Välimaa we attended this last Saturday.

Birds, baskets and a whole lot of knitting.

Above: Wirebaskets by Eva snd a kingsfisher carved by Nicke. Pictures from Hand och Tanke

Yesterday I left Stockholm to spend a couple of days in Näshulta outside Eskilstuna at the Svensson-Helldorff residence. I will be back late this weekend, hopefully showing you a handcarved bird or two, some of my knitting-in-progress and some wirework by Eva.

The hightlight of the day was having lunch outside on the patio. Spring! Finally!

Corners of my home

Today, some corners of our home. Preparing lunch and noticing the colours. Greens, beige and whites. The geranium I received yesterday with my grant. Finally getting to decorating the wall above my side-board in our bedroom next to the part I use as a workspace.

The word GOD means lots of things i swedish: fair, sweet, nice, good - and is therefor a good word. My dear friend Eva Svensson - who makes beautiful things in wire - made this and I will ask her for more.

I have tried to sleep of a persistent headache, without any luck. Not even the Tom ka gai-soup helped. Maybe a nice cup of coffee and a good friend will?