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Handicraft by Agis: September 2012
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Granny squares - testing a new pattern. Last night I found this exciting granny square pattern. I'm sorry it's only in Swedish) and I just had to try it. Here is the result! And when on the subject, do you have any favourite granny square versions? I'd love to see more! Do you know of any that fits together (in size) with the traditional (at least, the one I've heard is the most traditional here! You can see them in the second pic.) granny square? Links to this post. No sewin...
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Handicraft by Agis: November 2011
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Monday, November 7, 2011. My ancestry (old photographs.). A new show is airing on tv here in Sweden, in which a bunch of americans rediscover their Swedish ancestry. Watching the show ("Allt för Sverige", which by the way is great! Has brought up thoughts about my family history, and I've been looking a lot at old pictures from the early 20th century. I find it interesting in so many levels! And lived with his family in Uppsala. I am also a bit fascinated by what is going on in the background of the pict...
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Handicraft by Agis: Homemade yoghurt!
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Friday, December 7, 2012. As I grew up I knew that yoghurt somehow came from milk. Still, I had gotten the impression that one couldn't make yoghurt at home, because. well. just because! This notion stayed with me until just a few weeks ago, when I stumbled upon a recipe for homemade yoghurt. At first I thought "wow, this must be for those people who raise cows! But looking closer I finally understood that no, this was something ordinary people could do in an ordinary kitchen using ordinary milk. Actuall...
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Handicraft by Agis: Making a dress form (duct tape)
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Making a dress form (duct tape). Some time ago I came across something very inspiring. Some blogger (I'm sorry, I don't remember the blog adress or the name of the blogger! Had created a dress form out of duct tape, instead of buying a "real" and expensive one. Now finally I have been able to make my own (with the help of my darling husband, Marcus! And I am happy to show it to you all, and hope to inspire others to try it too! My very own dress form! Solo arte textil artesanal.
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Handicraft by Agis: Making perfume
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Thursday, November 29, 2012. This morning the landscape outside my window had turned crispy white, beautiful. Moving on. It's perfume making time! I am out of perfume. Empty bottle, nothing left. And at the moment I can't really go spend lots of money on new perfume (it's disgustingly expensive, isn't it? But though I've moved out from the city and turned into a lantis (the swedish equivalent of a 'hillbilly') I'm trying not to become a complete. Slob, and thus I still wanted new perfume. As I said, I ma...
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Handicraft by Agis: November 2012
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Thursday, November 29, 2012. This morning the landscape outside my window had turned crispy white, beautiful. Moving on. It's perfume making time! I am out of perfume. Empty bottle, nothing left. And at the moment I can't really go spend lots of money on new perfume (it's disgustingly expensive, isn't it? But though I've moved out from the city and turned into a lantis (the swedish equivalent of a 'hillbilly') I'm trying not to become a complete. Slob, and thus I still wanted new perfume. As I said, I ma...
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Handicraft by Agis: October 2011
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Sunday, October 23, 2011. I just realized that I've never shown you any of my silverwork! I haven't done much for the last two years or so, but before that I made quite a lot actually. Here are pictures of the pieces I still own (most were sold in the museum shop in Birka! A silver necklace with an amber pendant, a pair of silver earrings with carnelion beads and a silver bracelet. Then, not in silver but in copper, is another necklace which unfortunately has gotten stained since I made it. The smell was...
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Why Knotrune? | Knotrune
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Knotted runes are a very rare style of medieval rune. I have discovered two new inscriptions in knotted runes in Borgund stavechurch, which have been officially verified by James Knirk of the Norwegian Runic Archive. The first one is shown on the background to this blog, in colour. It says KP! When I got back to class, I mentioned I had seen the knotted runes in Borgund stavechurch. I was met with the response ‘what knotted runes in Borgund stavechurch? So now I have discovered not just one, but two new ...
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Handicraft by Agis: June 2012
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Saturday, June 9, 2012. Second candle making experiment! I'm sorry I don't update this blog as regularly as I used to, but everyday life and work seems to get in the way more often now. Anyhow, this has been a good week for crafting. Playing around with plastic bags (! As a re-usable material has been interesting, and will earn a separate blog post in the near future (when I've taken some pics to show off! Can't re-use those, can I! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Update CCW and Varangian.
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Handicraft by Agis: August 2012
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Saturday, August 18, 2012. What we've been up to this summer. I've mentioned before that we are about to move out of the city and finally get our own house. The house itself isn't actually there yet, though. but it's coming quite quickly! So instead of playing around at home with sewing, candlemaking or whatever I usually do, this summer we've been crafting on a different scale. We're not actually building the house ourselves, but we have been busy working on other stuff. And now, time for some pictures!
