19.8.09





Now this is creative.

Just bought this nice looking embrodery book.

Look here, a whole page with swedish hand crafting books, on a japanese site.






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34 comments:

orange sugar home said...

gorgeous embroidery book and I love that those earmuffs were adopted!

sew nancy said...

i am swooning over the embroidery book

Anonymous said...

wow, what a book & what a link...thanks.

Veja cecilia said...

oj vilken fin! gamla handarbetsböcker är verkligen toppen.

emma said...

MEN JA DÖR! G:et det klassiska i all ära men lilla J:et! O:ets dubbla rundlar! M:et! ÅÅÅÅÅ:et! Ået känns så modernt också - är det en ny!? ... eller gammal bok?

yu yasutake said...

i love this!! beautiful..

Elisabeth Dunker said...

Emma javisst känns det bitvis väldigt modernt! Det är en gammal bok, sitter här och dregglar...

lisen said...

Wow. Elsie Svennås sätter ribban högt! Jättefint..kan det bli! Om man har tålamod. ;)

Sakletarn said...

ja jäklarns vilken fin bok du hittat. trots att man bara sett omslaget. är den lika sjysst innuti?

Fine Little Day said...

Sakletarn, har inte fått den ännu. Visar på bloggen om där är nåt att ha :)

Kylie said...

Oh wow - it looks so very gorgeous. K

Hello Sandwich said...

how lovely is this book! I can't wait to see what you make from it! (HOW you find the time I have no idea :) hehe! You must be superwoman!)
Thank you for sharing with us!
Love Love
Hello Sandwich
xxx

amy said...

what a lovely alphabet.

Christina said...

wow! i just found the same exact embroidery book in my finnish-swedish grandmother's house a few days ago!

janeosullivan said...

you ,d find it !
what a fantastic resource........does it feel funny to have these books coming back to their country of origin from Japan ?
I too am obsessed with vintage alphabets
sometimes to be found on biblioddysey

Rebecca said...

I just found this book online, and bought it. The designs are just beautiful. Thank you for sharing it :)

at swim-two-birds said...

what a treasure!!! you can't have them to many, these books :-)

kristina - no penny for them said...

so nice. what a great way to think up individual shapes for every single letter. and the white-on-blue is gorgeous.

marie-louise said...

Tänk vad mycket fint det finns - det är ju helt underbart!

la casita de wendy said...

I love the book!!!!!

Amanda Nicole said...

I love creative alphabets! This one's gorgeous.

Make it Easy said...

oh yes wow. thats talent!

Kelsey B. said...

This is gorgeous, it even inspires me to pick up a needle and thread!

Fine Little Day said...

Christina, lucky you too :)

janeosullivan, yes it is a bit wierd that the japanese have more of swedish items that swedish shops have sometimes. But kind of cool :)

nath said...

that's some embroidery skillz, i can't ever imagine being able to do something like that.

and Elisabeth - I got your parcel today, thank you so much, i love love everything in it - shall we do a show and tell?

annapernilla said...

mmm helt underbart, så fint så fina bokstäver, den boken vill jag kika i

Rubyellen said...

oh that looks so pretty!!! you make everything look so pretty!!!

gini said...

waou i love these!!! im back in Nice and the weather is soooo hot! cannot wait to go back to my moutain on sunday.....
talk soon

gini xxx

julia said...

wow, i love the simple letters the most.

the "e" is great! and the "f" and the "m"... and i love the cuteness of the "ö"...

Alexandra Hedberg said...

tack för underbart trevligt igår, vi syns nog snart igen!

(kände att jag rusade likt askungen igår för att hinna till spårvgnen)

Vintage Fairy Tales Rebecka said...

ICA- förlaget har alltid gett ut fina böcker ;)

fanja said...

hi elisabeth, so nice to be able to read your posts again, they are as lovely as ever. that book and that books link, wish i had them all in my library x

Anonymous said...

Wow! I posted about the same book a while ago on my blog. Funny coincidence.
http://frazierandwing.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-embroidery.html

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