Materials

The materials I use are from various sources - there are those I have bought over the years (majority from Finland), but there are also other materials, such as

- white & brown wool from my friend's happy hill sheep from Shetland (used for felting as well as spinning yarn)

- found yarns

- yarns from a closed knitwear factory (through an arts association my mom is member of)

- reused canvases (from old clothes, bed covers, curtains etc)

When possible I'll try to write in the material & source of the materials, although with some of the old yarns I haven't kept this information...

band crafts

Handknitted gloves and a felted pin in the pink and green colours of Rhythms of Resistance

Cushion cover & felted card

A birthday "card" combining felting and knitting, a present to a family member in 2007


Stiched cushion case of old canvases (pieces from a canvas my sister brought from India in 1980s, an old bag and an old bed cover)


Both done in 2007

Starting at an early age

My mom and sisters have been active in teaching me and getting me involved in making crafts since I was young... Here using my sister's nice new sewing machine back in the 1980s

Fair Isle 2005 - spinning and felting

I stayed on Fair Isle in Shetland during 2005 for couple of months and learned (new) crafts there



An island (crofts and) craftsman thaught me how to spin during my first visit to Fair Isle in 2004 and after that during my visits to Fair Isle I have continued to practice this skill under his gentle guidance.

(I have since then bought a wheel he has made)

Also during my stay in 2005 fibre artist Jeannette Sendled held a felting workshop, teaching us different ways to make wet felt


From a very fine wool we made fine scarfs - on the left my orange and lilac one drying

We also made braclets which were felted by washing them in the washing machine