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A sketch inspired by todays morning walk.

As promised, the sketch inspired by the walk I did this morning. Nothing fancy, but it's a start.

Snow on pine tree needles.

I love walking. For a very long time I had a dog. That meant that I went walking with him daily. That was lovely. My dog is no longer alive and for some reason I don't go on walks anymore, at least not here in Hägn. Which is strange, cause I've done a lot of walking in the other places where I've lived, without the dog.

That is going to change. Starting today I'll go in a walk in the mornings and take some photos. But that is not the only thing. Later during the day I'll make a drawing or sketch which will be inspired from the morning walk.

It will be fun to see how this turns out. I suspect that in the beginning the result wont be that good, but as time goes it will be much better.

This morning it was a bit windy. So I decided to take the walk in the woods. It was also quite cloudy and not a lot of light. Not ideal for shooting photos.

Unsharp snow on pine tree needles.

Yellow lichen on tree body.

Several of the blogs that I read have written lists of seven things about themselves. In order to give, any reader that I might have or get, a chance to know me a bit better I've made such a list too. You'll find it below the picture. Enjoy!

The second garment I made from one of my handwoven fabrics. The pattern technique is called dukagång.

1. My favorite color in the whole wide world is orange. Bright glowing orange. Like in the picture. I don't link orangey colors that aren't orange to me at all. I especially hate a kind of faded orange that has a bit of pink in it. Sometime people see that color and thinks that I will like it. I will not, I want the real deal.
2. I like to know a process from the beginning to the end, to know and master everything. Well, at least if it's something that I'm interested in. That makes me extra proud of the things that I've got that are made of wool from my sheep Elsa (she's no longer alive, which also makes 'her' stuff super important). I feed her and took care of her. I shore her. I carded the wool. I spun the yarn. Some of it I dyed with vegetable dyes. And finally I knitted something out of her wool.
3. If I don't already have an opinion in a subject, I can't help but feeling drawn to having the opposite opinion to that of the majority, or the one that no one else has! I'm really good at thinking of things from another persons perspective, which is mostly good. I don't hate people, cause to me it's pretty obvious that the people that do bad things aren't as lucky as I am in one way or another.
4. Normally I don't like to watch a movie or an episode of a TV-series that I've already watched. With one exception, Friday Night Lights. I love it beyond words.
5. One of the best times in my life was when I went to school in one part of Sweden, had my boyfriend in another and my family in yet another. I appreciated that I could concentrate on one thing at a time and I felt so lucky and fortunate to have so many good things in my life when I traveled between those places.
6. To me, Christmas is decorating the Christmas tree with my siblings on the eve before Christmas eve and to eat my families Christmas ham. But since I am a loving and caring girlfriend I will spend this Christmas with my boyfriend, without those things.
7. A lot of the things involved in sewing, weaving (especially weaving), knitting and the likes, is really boring to do. But I want the result, so I do them anyway. I definitely hasn't done a craft because I find the process especially rewarding. The reward is in the end, when I have something that is unique and only mine.

Now every page that I have actually written any code for is online. The final part was the links section. There's not that many links there yet, it takes some time to add them.

The next step will be to make some improvements on the CSS code and perhaps some minor changes, plus the fun part. To code the next section! I need to plan it a bit more, but soon I can begin.

Screen shot of my article in Weavezine.

In the recent issue of Weavezine (a great online, free weaving magazine), there's an article written by me. It has instructions on how to make a skirt. How to make the fabric, how to make the pattern and how to sew it.

It did take some time to write the article and it was somewhat complicated as I'm not too familiar with the English terminology in weaving and sewing. But it does feel great to have written a published article. If you haven't already checked it out you can read it here!

Don't forget to take a look at the rest of the content on the Weavezine site and to listen the wonderful Weavecast podcast.

Things are going as planned and now there's a page with a contact form. The next thing that I'll do is some work behind the scene. Nothing that will benefit anyone other than me! Just as it should be...

It did take a little while longer than I expected. A database query that needed some thought among other things, but now this site has a RSS feed. I'm going to add more links to it and fix some other things tomorrow, it's late and I need to sleep.

A winter view from Hägn.

A winterly birch.

A winterly rowan.

Grass in the winter.

Hägn (where I live) is in Sweden. There's always snow in the winter here. Not always this early, but this year we do have snow right now.

It's not much there yet, but now there's a archive availibel. Hopefully it will be well used in the future when this site is full of interesting posts.

I'm hesitating about using the word blog cause, although this is what this is at the moment, it's not the only thing that will be available here once everything is finished (not that it will ever be really finished). I must also admit that, not that long ago I never thought I would run a blog. Just didn't seem like my thing to do. But now I've realized that a lot of people enjoy the concept (including me) and that's a good thing if you want to get your message out there.

Plus a blog can be anything the author wants!

I want mine to be friendly and filled with inspiration and information.

Tomorrow I'll work on the RSS feed, but I think I'm going to post something slightly inspiring later today.

Welcome to Made in Hägn. This is the first post at this new Website. It's quite empty and uninteresting right now, but sooner or later that will change (I'm hoping on sooner, but guessing on later).

My name is Frida Karlsson and I'm the person behind Made in Hägn. Eventually this site will mostly evolve around textiles and other inspiring things. But for now, I think I'll mostly use it to document the progress I'm making with the development of this site itself. You see, I'm the type of person who wants to know everything, make everything by myself, have total control and get everything exactly like I want it. I'm not really there yet...