I am very happy that a hanging I wove many years ago for Peace Lutheran Church of Plymouth has found a home at Oak Knoll Lutheran church....

Our daughter in law is a great gardener and she very kindly devotes space for dye plants and flowers for me! This post is about dyeing...

At the end of our month at the Textile Center in Blonduos, we had an exhibition of the works we made during the month of May. We named...

Right next door to the Textile Center in Blonduos is the only textile museum in Iceland. There you will see many national costumes,...

There was an excellent dye studio at the Textile Center in Bloduos. One day I decided to try dyeing some mordanted linen fabric with two...

In one of the rooms of the Textile Center in Blonduos where I lived and worked in May, the Vatnsdæla Saga tapestry is being embroidered. ...

The four-hour bus ride from Blonduos to Reykjavik showed quite a lot of change since the ride a month earlier. The grass was greener. The...

This piece is inspired by a photograph of my dad from 1938, when he was twenty years old. He proudly stands with his workhorse colt. The...

Blonduos is a town in northern Iceland of less than 900 people.  Yesterday was quite sunny and warm, though you can see the clouds did...

I have finished stitching the Women's March piece, at least for now.   There may be some tweaking to be done and the finishing for...

While in Iceland, the main project I have been working on depicts a memory from the Minnesota Women's March in January 2017.  I went to...

Fellow artist Ragna, from Oslo, was feeling a bit homesick for Norway on Constitution Day.  I decided we needed to make a Norwegian cake...

On a cloudless sunny day, I brought Mary and Sarah to see the seals. On our way, we were met at a fence by several curious Icelandic...

The promise of northern lights did not really work out here in Iceland. We had total cloud cover and more importantly, even when the sun...

It is the middle of lambing season.  We were lucky to be invited to Johanna's sheep farm to meet the new born lambs. Most of the lambs...

Almost all of the wool in Iceland is washed in Blonduos before it is sent to the Istex spinnery to become yarn. Fleeces are sorted into...

One of the projects I am working on during my residency in Blonduos is a stitching of 5 girls. There will be more later on the theme and...

Today, Laura, a fellow artist who is from Canada, took me on a walk along the ocean cliffs. Our goal was to see the seals. Along the way...

The Textile Centers Textile Lab is the first of its kind in Iceland. It blends state of the art equipment with digital technology with...

After a four hour bus ride from Reykjavik, I arrived in the small town of Blonduos. I will be spending the month of May in residency at...