I have started a blog in English, I am hoping we can communicate a bit through there. Feel welcome to check it out, I am just starting and hoping it will grow as more communicate and I learn the technique better ;-)  The blog is here
I also have an Icelandic blog page here more pictures there ("myndaalbum" means photo album)

July 19th
Today I had my solo exhibition. It was held at Eyrarkot in Kjos. It is an old house in a beautiful fjord called Hvalfjordur. It was a glorious day with sunshine and wonderful people. More on my blogs.
Love and friendship
Rags / Ragnhildur

July
A new friendship piece arrived today. It is from Ingunn G. Kristjánsdóttir in Akureyri, Iceland. She made a beautiful piece which you can see here

I will have big news to tell you very soon, so watch the website....
More later... :-)

May 2008

The Friendship Tapestry and I are very much alive! But my computer died! and it has taken me all this time to first have it checked for what was wrong and then finally to get a new one and all the programs and keywords, help and time to get this going again.
But here we are again and I will continue to add to the website, now that I have the technology working.

There are two pieces that have been waiting to be published online. I have added them to the piece page 261-

A beautiful friendship flowers piece made by Susan Bennett in Alberta Canada. Look at the piece and see how the flowers seem to turn towards each other for connection in friendship.

And a beautiful friendship flowers piece made by my new friend in Botswana, Africa, Renee Wheeler. With a family of Friendship flowers and a heart of gold.

Now we have 263 Friendship pieces from 24 countries in five continents connected in the Friendship Tapestry. And all of them display Friendship and hope for Peace, which is so needed in our world today. :-)

And we will continue to grow and join the world together with the threads of Friendship and Peace. We are already planning a big travel and exhibition in 2009, I will let you know here on the website, as soon as everything is clear.

So, keep watching this website, I will continue to add more news, letters and pieces and hopefully new features.
In Love and Friendship
Rags, Iceland

August 14th 2007

The Great Fish Day´s weekend is over. What a wonderful weekend! Around 35.000 people were in this little town on the Saturday. Everybody enjoying fish and friendship. The athmosphere was so wonderful, everybody happy and friendly. The people of Dalvík really did an incredible job!


We had so many people coming to see the Friendship Tapestry. It was really wonderful to meet all these people and talk about friendship and the talents and hope for the future.

Many new friendship ties were made this weekend. I look forward to see where it will lead us.

Lilja Kristinsdóttir from Ólafsfjörður was quick to make her piece of friendship and brought it to us. She is a wonderful lady and as you can see made a beautiful friendship piece for the tapestry. Her piece is number 261 on the pieces 261 - page Thank you Lilja for your wonderful token of friendship.

I have already received mails from new friends I met at Dalvík. I look forward to continue working with our new friends and spread the word of friendship, peace and the wonderful art of needlework.



August 9th 2007

Well, now it is time to drive north to Dalvík. Everything will be ready before six o´clock tomorrow afternoon, to open the exhibition in the Town Hall.

Many new pieces have arrived since the exhibition in Fargo last year.


I had to add more of the black fabric, we have now 6 meters and 40 centimeters (21 feet) of friendship and talent!

Here is the Friendship Tapestry just before we rolled it up very carefully and put it in the famous golfbag (remember from Boston in the end of the Fargo trip? ;-)
We have now 260 pieces from 23 countries in five continents, every piece is filled with the energy of friendship. You can see it in the work and feel it while admiring the talent and love of all these people.

I had a very nice visit this week from three new friends.

Hrefna Gunnlaugsdóttir from Reykjavík, Iceland, Lucia Calsa from Milan Italy and Sonia Bryant from London, England. We had a lovely time looking through the tapestry and chatting over a cup of coffee.
Thank you for coming dear new friends. :-)


August 2007

The Great Fish Day is coming fast. We are almost ready for the exhibition in Dalvík 10th -12th of August.


My whole family was very excited when we rolled out the whole six meters of the Friendship Tapestry, for the first time in a while. So many new pieces have arrived since we displayed it last time, that we had to add to the fabric! Today the Friendship Tapestry is almost 6 1/2 meters long, with 260 piece.  It shows amazingly beautiful thought and magnifizent talent and such wonderful feeling of friendship, hope and beauty. All the different types of needlework, knitting and crochet, quilts and freestyle, photography, even cheramics and woodcarwing! Every piece represents friendship across all boundaries.
It is like you can feel the warmth and hope for a friendlier future.


July 2007

Now we are preparing for the exhibition in Dalvík, in the north part of Iceland. (just north of Akureyri, if you look at a map). We are so excited about it. The Great Fish Day is a very popular event every year, so it is quite an honor to participate. And this year they have the special Friendship Chain forming on Friday night! Last year  around 30.000 people came to their little town for The Great Fish Day!

Lárus and I are working on the booklet and signs and of course adding all the pieces I´ve received in the last year, since we displayed in Fargo.
I will be adding more photos and news while we prepar and of course after the exhbition, right here on the news page of our website.
If you want to contact me write to friendshiptapestry@internet.is
More later ;-)

July 2007

Roz Watnemo of Nordic Needle and her husband Harold, along with Roz´s brother Jeff and his wife Joyce, came to stay with us one weekend in July. They were on their way to Norway to meet lots of relatives and travel around. We had a wonderful time with them and truly missed them the minute they left. They are such wonderful warm people with great sence of humor ;-)


Here we are in our little front yard: Roz, Harold, Jeff, Joyce, Rags and Lárus.
The weather was perfect so we could show them around a little bit. Here they are by the waterfall Gullfoss

Harold, Jeff and Joyce.

Roz brought five more pieces for the Friendship Tapestry from friends in the USA and New Zealand, with her. So, now we have 258 pieces in the tapestry!
(see piece pages)


As you who have been following this project know, Roz along with Sue Meyer are the two owners of the wonderful Nordic Needle store in North Dakota, USA. It was through this store online and their very friendly weekly newsletter that I got to know new friends from all over the world. This friendship resulted in the making of The Friendship Tapestry.
We displayed the Friendship Tapestry in Nordic Needle last year and there we met for the first time (see other news in archives) and stayed with Roz and Harold. So, it was a great honor to have them stay here with us this time.


Thank you Roz and family for coming, it was unforgettable for us to have you here.
Hope you come again and spend more time ;-)

July 2007

I have a cross stitched piece of friendship from an unknown friend. If this piece is yours, please contact me Rags, at ft@internet.is We need to have a proper owner to this happy friend!   ;-)


July 2007

We had a good visit the other day from Friendship Tapestry friends from Ohio. Carol Jean and Ron Abraham came by to bring a piece for the tapestry and of course to see the Frienship Tapestry itself, before they travelled around Iceland (the whole circle around Iceland) for 10 days and had the best weather the whole time! It was really nice to see them and spend an afternoon together.


Here we are in my living room looking at a part of the tapestry. It takes a larger table to open the whole thing. The Friendship Tapestry is 6 meters (18 feet) long! We are holding Carol´s friendship piece between us, you can see it better on our piece page nr. 240 - 260


Thank you Carol and Ron, for stopping by on your travels!


July 2007

Great news!!!

The Friendship Tapestry will be on display in the Town Hall, Dalvík, Iceland August 10 - 12, 2007.

Dalvík is a small town in the north of Iceland (just north of Akureyri), they are famous for "The Great Fish Day"  festival, they hold every year in August. This year they start the weekend with a Friendship theme evening Friday night. The town will be filled with people as usual (around 30.000 last year and Icelanders are only 300.000 people!).
We are very excited about participating!!

Our project is always open, so if you want to participate in the World of Friendship throught the Friendship Tapestry, hurry and send your needlework piece in time. See the Checklist for more details. We already have some more pieces which I will add to the website as soon as possible.

Watch the process of the exhibition here on this website.