She belonged to the peasantry, appears not to have been married, and lived on various farms in the parish, often with her brother.
The documentation of the parish vicar, who regularly interrogated the parishioners in their religious knowledge, noted that she was sickly but also "intelligent with good sense and well capable of reading and writing".
She is known for her embroidery illustrations on textile, which often depicted naturalistic wedding stories with blue thread on white textile or (more seldom) with red and yellow thread.
Uncommonly for a woman artist from the peasantry, she signed her own work.
While there had always been professionally women textile artists in the Swedish peasantry, they are seldom identified, because most of them did not sign their work and are remembered only through oral tradition which was written down in the 19th century, such as Elna Jonsdotter of Blekinge, "Mrs Ådal" of Asarum, Brita Carlsdotter Rudolphi (1813-1887), Brita-Kajsa Karlsdotter (1816-1915) and Anna Göransdotter.