“I like it best at home. In my quiet little corner. Where the world´s conflicts wont reach. Where I gain new strength.”

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…from the embroidery and needlecraft blog Mr X Stitch – with posts about people who make amazing art using the power of stitch & pushing boundaries of the threadiverse; found via Kurbits.

Itty-bitty boho slash folklore inspiration for you this Friday. A sweet mix I think! To the left, a photo by Ditte Isager and to the right, the beautiful Mamma Maria lamp from Lekfull Design and some lovely vintage signs from Three Potato Four.

This season is a whole lot about innovation, personality, creativity, colours and love. Every day is Valentine’s day, right? I have told you about her before, but here we go again: Wendinskan, one of my favourite pillow-makers. She uses recycled fabrics and stylized patterns of old embroidery books and makes the lovliest pillows/cushions. She has just released a new collection of colourful, romantic and lovely (!) love pillows. You will find them here, updated with new lovely pillows every week this spring.

To celebrate her new collection, she’s currectly holdning an auction on a very special pillow, Sweet Love Of Mine (below). It’s a pillow made of the finest old linen, lace curtains and other stuff from the 40 -, 50 – and 60′s. Embroidery of gold-coloured rayon. Zipper at bottom hem and inner pillow of down. 40 × 40 cm. Email your bid to info@wendinskan.se and watch the bidding here. The money from the love-pillow auction will go to MSF‘s fund for relief operations. Now I told you, perhaps you will outbid me…..as with the fast-selling bracelets and pillows of Uttran, it’s a shame!! Self-destructive! Can’t help sharing my treasures though :)

Maybe this is the most beautiful pillow I have ever owned.

The creator is Cecilia Wendin a.k.a Wendinskan. She makes the most wonderful pillows from old fabrics and scraps that she has passionately accumulated through the years. Many of the patterns she uses are from her great grandmother’s embroidery books. Wendinskan weaves in music, culture and everything else inspiring into the old motifs and thereby continues a fine old crafts tradition by renewing its expression. Her work can be purchased through her blog, where also special requests on colours, text, etc can be made, and at this coming site, where you can see current dealers.

Lay your head on my pillow. Can you imagine a more beautiful and appropraiate pillow to keep in the guest bed? This lovely mix of fabrics, beneath an ocean-blue wall? I can’t..! It’s so right it can ever be. My new pillow makes me happy. :)

This weekend the Formex Fair and Exhibition is taking place in Stockholm. It is the largest trade fair for Nordic interior design with around 24,000 national and international professional visitors.

This autumn’s trend theme, Vintage Travel, is presented as a fashionable journey back to yesteryear. It wants to take visitors back to a more glamorous Europe, more specifically by means of a respectably-furnished train carriage with plush-covered seats, an elegant lamp in the window, own compartment and a glorious, old-fashioned restaurant car with white linens and waiters. A lot like taking the train in an old Hitchcock movie, they say (!).

Anyway, the train has a destination and or at least some kind of a route. Quite a few directions are given: It will go back to places comme il faut in the 1940s and 50s: like Venice, Rimini, the French Riviera, or ski resorts such as Wengen and St. Moritz and we will escape into literature appropriate to the era. Maps and globes are essentials. The colour scale is green (olive green tones) with orange, tomato red and rust as contrasts along with a muted yellow. Those coulours go well with the former mentioned Pantone AW2009 palette, don’t they?

On the fashion side, they want us to picture the fashions of the 1940s and 50s with hats, gloves, boas and fur collars and inspiration is derived from remakes of classics such as “Brideshead Revisited” and “Changeling“. Uniforms, not only military, but also those of the chauffeur, station master, and coach driver provide inspiration. The style is dressed and strict and medals, sashes, emblems and embroidery are important.

In interior decorating, surroundings are cosy, with upholstered furniture, rugs and lots of textiles. A great deal of intricate detail can be found, as well as a mixture of vintage and contemporary. People read books, according to the Formex autumn trend theme! We jot notes in elegant notebooks and on small correspondence cards, and from time to time we may even write a letter by hand.

To close the report, Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins in Changeling, and Matthew Goode as Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revistited. Photos from imdb.com. Now who doesn’t want to jump on this good-old fashion train?