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Happy Valentine's Day!

On maternity leave

Dear friends,I know I've been an awful blogger! During the last year I've been literally sick and tired, but it was very much worth it! The result is sleeping in my arms as I'm writing this. Baby F was born five weeks ago and has charmed us all. I feel very blessed to be a mother of three! I very much hope that she will help to bring my blogging groove back, but until then I will be on maternity leave. I am updating the Syko Facebook page quite frequently though, please visit me there!

Tuesday in the Syko studio

Day two of the facebook challenge with pictures of five ordinary days in the studio!

I always check my e-mail and facebook first thing in the morning, this is the view from my favourite spot in my armchair.

I picked out fabrics for a new project inspired by a favourite wallpaper of mine, Amelie from Sandberg.

Lettering for a wall quilt to-be...

New tray design for a coffee shop?

In the afternoon I had time to stitch some fish, they are going to become notebook covers.

See you Wednesday!

Monday in the Syko studio

I was challenged over at facebook to show some pictures of five ordinary days in the studio. I thought I'd share my week here too, for those of you who are not on fb! 

I came in first in the morning and opened up the shop. It was a rainy day in our small town and we had no customers at all. Which gave me lots of time to work on some new projects!

I dropped a couple of letters in the mailbox. I like the new stamps with traditional Finnish instruments!

The new tags for my chopping-boards arrived in the mail!

 Happy Monday everyone! I'll be back tomorrow with some snippets of my Tuesday at work!

 

Studio shop

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Efter lite vinterpaus med butiken har vi så smått börjat ställa i ordning en liten studio shop. Utanför dörren till mitt arbetsrum ser det nu ut såhär!

Jag/vi håller öppet när någon av oss är på plats (oftast på vardagar ca 9-17). Annars går det bra att ta kontakt på för hand om man har vägarna förbi Ekenäs!

Det fina turkosa skåpet fick jag låna av Mia som har arbetsrum i samma våning. Jag gillar Pippi Långstrump-känslan så! 

Den gula korgen och pallen är också Mias, hon har en fantastisk samling gamla saker i vackra färger och skön patina som gör en glad i själen. Välkommen in!

After a winter break we have a little studio shop again! This is how it looks outside my studio door today! I am having really fun building this little Pippi Longstocking world of mine! You are very welcome to visit me here if you are in Ekenäs/Tammisaari! Please contact me before hand to make sure I'm around! If you see something you like but are too far away let me know! Or check out my Etsy shop, you might find it there! 

Happy Easter! Glad påsk! Hyvää pääsiäistä!

 

 

Syko cards Spring & Summer 2014...

...will soon be available! It took some time, honestly it always does, but now they are ready, off to the printers!

Patchwork!

We have been working a lot with patches lately! Well, you know I always do, but together with my trainee Nadja we have made a bunch of peek a boo baby quilts during the last month. We only used what I had on my shelves, a mix of new and fleamarket fabrics. It was a creative challenge to find the right fabrics for each quilt, when I had decided not to order any new fabrics for the quilts, but a very fun challenge it was, and I did have enough to choose from and my shelves are not empty yet... Here is one of our favourite quilts, a very springy one that is now available in my shop!

Under the flaps you will find some appliqued pictures to peek at together with the baby. A kitty...
A piggy...
And a doggy dog!
For the backing I found a really nice baby blue gingham sheet.
One more patchy thing before I wish you all a happy weekend! A brand new print of a little elephant going off on an adventure in her home made hot air balloon! It's available in the shop.
Happy weekend everyone! I am enjoying the silent early hours myself, when the rest of the house is still sleeping!

 

Spring is my season!

I often come back to Spring in my work. I think the older I get the more I realise that Spring is my absolute favourite season. Every morning I check my garden for early green guests, I enjoy the birdsong, the soft earth under my feet and the smell of dust and damp. Yesterday I found myself smiling stupidly at a mother with two small children having their first icecreams outside for the year.

As much as I love Spring I hate the dark season. This year we didn't get much snow, which made it even harder to cope with. The best thing with the dark months is that you get so amazingly happy at heart when Spring and light finally arrives! The Spring will come quilt expresses my emotions quite well, I think. I made it three years ago (!) for the book We love color from Stasbooks (the picture of the quilt was taken at my publisher's studio). I blogged about it here. Now, with this new Spring arriving I have decided I am ready to part with it and have listed it in my Etsy shop. I hope it will bring Spring joy into someone else's home!

To celebrate Spring I have also reordered some tree prints. I stitched the tree for my first postcard collection in 2008. Time flies!

Happy Spring Day everyone!

Fish quilt

Det är bara januari och jag har redan lyckats få två lapptäcken quiltade. Tror att lapptäcken ska vara lite av ett tema i år. Drömmer alltid om att få sy större arbeten, tröttnar aldrig på att kombinera tyger i olika färger och mönster och nu ska jag göra slag i saken! Allra bäst tycker jag om enkla mönster som i det här fisktäcket. Här har jag utgått från tyget med fiskarna i mitten, som är min egen design. Det går att köpa via Spooonflower.

Jag har blandat friskt med nya och återanvända tyger. Gillar skarpt att lyfta fram loppistyger i ett nytt fräscht babytäcke. 

It's only January and I've already finished two quilts! Very proud of myself :) This means I must be allowed to start cutting patches for some new ones, right? The fishy center piece in this quilt is my own print, that is available at Spoonflower. I used both new and fleamarket fabrics for the quilt and I must say I love giving old fabrics a new fresh start in a baby quilt!

Mysfilt - Linen lap quilt

På jullovet sprang jag en del på loppis och blev så glad när jag fick syn på en soffa som, trots att den var något solblekt hade "det". Den är mysig och inbjudande och när jag upptäckte att den dessutom är utrustad med bäddmekanism (sängdelen ser helt oanvänd ut) slog vi till!

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Nästan alla våra möbler är från loppis. Lampskärmen, som jag tror är finsk design (Printex?) är köpt i en lokal Köp- och säljaffär. Soffbordet, som vi fixat upp och målat är från ett nedlagt sjukhus. Tavlan med rosenskärorna har min mamma målat! Hon har också stickat de randiga sockorna på nästa bild!

Unnade mej en bukett tulpaner till helgen. De står på bordet och inger hopp om att våren kommer i år också!

Quilten är sydd av linnetyger. Egentligen hade jag tänkt sy ett överkast till sovrummet, men när den nya soffan flyttade in insåg jag att det blir en perfekt mysfilt! Jag har ett lager polyestervadd emellan och blev överraskad över hur lätt det gick att quilta trots att linne brukar vara knepigt att använda då man syr i lappteknik. Allt går att kvilta bara man nålar ordentligt!

We found a really nice sofa at the thriftstore a few weeks ago and I relised that I had the perfet lap quilt on the go for it! I stitched the quilt top together last Summer, but was a bit scared of doing the quilting, because linen can be quite tricky to use for patchwork, but it was a success!  So this is my favoruite spot at home right now. In the sofa with a good book, under my new blanket with tulips on the table reminding me of the fact that Spring will come this year too!