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Snow is going in behind and beneath the willow tree. :) #RugHooking

Hand hooked willow tree trunk split in two branches. Background yet to be hooked. On primitive linen. Lara Wellman’s class on hooking deciduous tree bark, in “A Baker’s Dozen” mini-classes organized by Winnie Glavine of Newfoundland. Zoom classes twice a month.

Learning to hook bark of deciduous trees. Lara Wellman’s class, in “A Baker’s Dozen” mini classes organized by Winnie Glavine of Nfld. #RugHooking

It looks lovely though! 🙂

The final piece… #RugHooking

Hooked rug wall hanging. A winter starry night, with a huge moon and purple, green and blue Northern Lights. Snowy landscape. 8” x 7 1/2”. Finishing the edge with cording and whipping with strips of wool. Project #1 of Winnie Glavine’s mini-classes almost done.

Working the edge in strips. Thinking I’ll make it all purple.
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Partially finished hooked rug pattern of the close up of a deciduous tree. A variety of fibres used. A project from my sketchbook for a mini-class by Lara Wellman.

Another Baker’s Dozen class. This time on how to hook the bark of deciduous trees., by Lara Wellman. I’m modifying these classes. Winnie’s original intent was for everyone to do samples. I feel like that’s a waste of supplies, so I’m creating small to medium sized pieces instead.

Rug hooked wall hanging in progress. The moon and night sky with Northern Lights hooked in hand spun and hand dyed yarns. Large light coloured moon. Landscape below yet to be hooked.

Took Winnie Glavine’s class “Hooking the Moon”. Thanks Winnie! Of course I had to modify it. 😉
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This photograph reminds me of an oil painting I once made for an astronomy lover. Beautiful photograp!

A large hand dyed spot dyed medium green skein of yarn, with three smaller skeins of wool yarn the same colour. I dyed the large skeins of to match.

Busy dyeing a skein to match those mini skeins. For a friend.

#DyeingWool #DyeingYarn #RugHooking

Fibre art materials sale set up in my basement studio. Rug hooking kits, plaid swatches, plain swatches, books, sketchbooks, used magazines, and yarn bundles.

Fibre art materials sale set up in my basement studio. Tote bags, patterns, hand spun hand dyed mini skeins of yarn

A successful sale in my studio last week. Thank-you everyone! #RugHooking

banner with a base of cobalt blue felt, layered with a green, yellow and brown sunflower print fabric, with felt sunflowers of three different yellows attached by Velcro. The centres of the flowers are big - for writing names and dates. Light green and dark green felt leaves are interspersed through the sunflowers.

My latest creative project is a banner.
#banner

Bar graph showing comparison of grocery costs for 2023, 2024 and 2025. Accompanying chart below it. The rise in prices is noticeable.

Yep! Grocery prices have definitely gone up in this household! We’re two seniors who have frequent company. #costofliving #grocerycost #NovaScotiaCOL

Dawn Oman’s Custom Rughooking Patterns | Dawn Hand drawn patterns on linen by Dawn Oman!My patterns are created individually by order. I do not have a stack ready to show you to choose from.Just let me know which painting you like and we can chat...

My friend gifted me a beautiful Silk scarf from Dawn Oman - gallery in Bridgetown i have yet to go ~ looked at her website ! So cool she also has rug hooking patterns and much more www.dawnomanart.com/product-page...

Tortiere crust…awaiting the filling One was easier than the other. Don’t worry. I pushed the pie plates further onto the counter after taking this photo!

Pot with tortiere filling in it. Cooling.

Switching gears to prepare for Christmas. Making tortiere for Christmas and New Year’s. Waiting for the filling to cool. #ChristmasFood

Fishing shacks hooked on a rug warp (100% cotton) tote bag. Fully lined. Two pockets. Toggle closure. Cotton webbing handles. Box bottom.

Lighthouse hooked design on rug warp (100% cotton) tote bag. Fully lined. Two pockets. Box bottom. Toggle closure. Cotton webbing handles.

Two more tote bags complete. That’s 4 out of 7 done.
#RugHooking #ToteBags

Parcel found and delivered! Thank goodness! 😅

😕Missing parcels…’tis the Season! Be vigilant people! Be kind. Don’t ruin others’ Christmas.

Table with a Scandinavian meal of: Apple slaw, Swedish meatballs and gravy, steamed vegetable platter, lingonberry sauce and whipped butter. Recipes all from Beatrice Ojakangas “Scandinavian Cooking”.

Coffee table with Scandinavian ingredients for appetizers, including: smoked salmon, pickled herring in wine sauce, sardine spread, whipped cream cheese, whipped butter, Cranberry Pear Jam, pickled red onions, Gouda cheese, Jarlsberg cheese, gjetost cheese (Ski Queen), gorgonzola, Swiss cheese, cucumber slices, radish slices, and Boston butter lettuce leaves. Basket of breads includes: Finn Crisp, cheese sticks, cheese crackers, pumpernickel bread, and Ryvita snack bread. Drink was mulled apple cider, also known as glögg.

One successful Scandinavian meal was had by all! Apple Slaw, Swedish meatballs, mashed potatoes, steamed vegetable platter and lingonberry sauce for main course. See alt text for appetizer platter. #food #feast #Scandnavia

Scallop shell tote bag. Cream and pink scallop shell on beige background. Motif centred on a 100% cotton rug warp tote bag. Fully lined with two pockets and foam bottom covered in 100% cotton. Sturdy cotton straps. Toggle closure with elastic loop.

Another finished tote bag! Two down. Four to go. One sold already. Two spoken for. 😁
#rughooking #totebag

Spent all day decorating for Christmas. Done!

8 cup jars of home canned cranberry sauce on a towel cooling on the table. Two more jars in the canner. All ready for my contribution to the various Christmas meals we’ll be attending. :)

Annnnd…the Cranberry Sauce is made for Christmas! Three jars already spoken for by family members. A couple might disappear to a community craft and bake sale. Pretty good, considering how hard it was to find cranberries this year!
#canning

This situation needs to be dealt with…NOW! Parents should never be put in this position.

An exhibit of textile work - rug hooked wall hangings and cross-stitched birds - hanging on the wall of The Pink Piano Café & Lounge. Show runs until January 10th.

And my rug hooking is up! I’m sharing the space with a talented cross-stitch artist. The exhibit runs from now to January 10th! So happy to be showing again.

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About time!!!

Couch covered in rug hooked wall hangings, notecards and books, heading to an exhibit/sale that starts Monday.

Preparing for an exhibit and sale! #RugHooking

Bin with home spun mini skeins destined for sale to rug hookers. Top to bottom: “Moss” (Merino wool), “Sunflower” (Shetland wool and silk), “Poppy” (Merino wool). That’s the top layer. I have a wool mix I call “Northern Lights”, an orange blend (wool, silk, Angelina) I call “Sunset”, and “Ocean” (wool, silk, bamboo, Tencel and Angelina) beneath these.

More mini-skeins. They’re piling up! Most are mixed fibres (wool, silk, Tencel, bamboo, Angelina), some just wool. All are 10 grams each. Mostly DK weight or heavier. I’m selling to rug hookers. Any idea what I should sell them for?
#RugHooking #SpinningYarn

Basket full of large skeins of various types and colours of handspun yarn.

Bin of mini skeins of hand spun yarn. Ocean, which is variations of blue, white and turquoise wool, silk, bamboo, Tencel and Angelina. Sunset, which is orange, red, yellow wool, silk, and gold Angelina. Excellent for rug hooked walll hangings!

Turning hand spun skeins of yarn into mini skeins. #spinningyarn #rughooking

Busy trying to figure out pin weaving. Not having any luck.

Mixed fibre technique wall hanging called “The Farm”. Based on rug hooking, it includes: proddy, crochet, appliqué, embroidery, beadwork, stumpwork embroidery, and bargello embroidery. Fibres are a mix of commercial, hand dyed and hand spun. Appliqued and embroidered silver maple leaves top right corner…on spot dyed wool. Below that are proddy old fashioned roses done with hand dyed wool fabric. Proddy leaves. Beneath them are 3D beadwork raspberries, and proddy leaves. Beneath that are highbush blueberries with beads on padded appliqué and proddy leaves. Beneath that Swarovski crystal beads nestle in the old fashioned spirea in the lower right corner. Across the bottom, next to thespirea, are old fashioned pansies done with stumpwork embroidery. Beside them are crocheted daffodils with beaded centres. In the lower left corner are beaded red currants with proddy leaves. Moving up the left side are beads representing gooseberries, with proddy leaves. Above them os a lilac bush in bloom. Its flowers of hand dyed, hand spun yarn. Proddy leaves. Above the lilaccis an apple tree with apples hooked in bright red, and proddy leaves. And in the top left corner is a Sugar Maple tree with spot dyed wool fabric for leaves, and veins embroidered on with cotton embroidery floss. The central image of the wall hanging is an appliquéd image of a white two storey farmhouse and a front porch. The railing and columns hooked. Reverse hooking, using plaids and spot dyed wool, forms the window panes. The sky is done in bargello stitch with a commercial cotton yarn.

It’s finished! Heading to a framer next. Thinking a shadow box would be best.
#RugHooking #TextileArt #FibreArt