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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.

#RugHooking

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

Two shades of royal purple dyed wool fabric for rug hooking.

Three different blue sets of graduated wool swatches for rug hooking.

Graduatedspot dye using seal brown and black on natural Dorr wool.

Dye day results… #RugHooking #DyeingWool

Large roasting pan with six jars of water and blue dye of varying amounts, dyeing wool swatches for rug hooking.

Pasta pot on a hot plate with seven wool swatches being dyed royal purple.

Dye day over. Lots of wonderful blues, some purple, and a gradated brown/back spot dye. Wonderful for sky, rocks and brightly coloured fishing shacks!
#RugHooking #DyeingWool

Zwartbles sheep braid for the breed study through our guild.

Pot of grapes simmering to release juice for grape jelly.

Straining juice from home grown grapes for jelly. Then roasting poblanos. Next up? Planning a breed study and doing some fibre dyeing. Nothing like variety! 😂 #canning #foodpreservation #spinning #dyeingwool

A rug hooking pattern on linen backing, ready to have its edge serged on the serger.

50 gram bag of white and off-white yarn for rug hooking. Great for Santa’s beard, sheep and clouds!

Busy preparing for a sale. Patterns and bags of fibre. #RugHooking

Skein of multicoloured wool yarn.

Rug hooked fishes in ocean motif on side of tote bag.

The finished multicoloured wool yarn! And a tote bag front. Lots of fun! #spinningyarn #RugHooking

Spinning wheel bobbin with multicoloured blue, yellow, red, green and pink wool fibres. Plied together in a 2 ply yarn.

Large skein of fine 2 ply yarn, ready for processing.

It’s off the spinning wheel and ready to be processed!

#spinningyarn #spinningwool

Sigh. I’ve decided I need a couple more. Hopefully they won’t take as long as these did!

Three stumpwork pansies ready to be attached to the lower border of “The Farm”, a fibre piece created with a variety of fibre techniques.

Stumpwork pansies, ready to be attached to “The Farm”

#RugHooking

Canning applesauce, spinning yarn, embroidering the last of the stumpwork pansies, and planning and planting a fall garden. Life is busy. I will post more photos when I actually complete something! Have a great day everyone!

Dye job of green wool fabric, a light and a dark green wool yarn (3 ply and 5 ply), a green spot dyed piece of wool fabric, red wool fabric, red spot dyed wool fabric, and red dyed wool yarn (3 ply and 5 ply).

A better look at the recent dye job. #RugHooking #DyeingWool

Five jars of pickled hot peppers cooling on the table.

Pickled Hot Peppers done! Finished dehydrating basil…for now. Tomorrow is more dehydrating. Maybe looking for local peaches too.

#food #homecanning #PickledHotPeppers

Thank-you!😊

Wool fabric and yarn, hand dyed red and green. Spot dyed green, and red yardage. Also Immersion dyed red, and green, yardage. Yarn, immersion dyed and spot dyed, in red and green. Two types of green: a grass green and a blue green.

Recent dye jobs. using up my Majic Carpet dyes. Preparing for Christmas.
#RugHooking #dyeing #wool

25 pounds Ontario Roma tomatoes lined up on a tea towel, ready for antipasto and tomato basil sauce.

20 pounds of tomatoes ready for antipasto and tomato basil sauce. There’s another 5 pounds of damaged ones I might be able to salvage. We’ll see.

#food #canning #tomatoes

Sale was a success! Yahoo!

Partly filled tote bins open on the floor, awaiting packing for an upcoming sale. Some already packed tote bins stacked in the background. A basket of hand dyed hand spun yarn on top of one of the stacks.

Preparing for a sale this week. It’s been a busy day.

I was right. Almost 6 pounds exactly! Made 1 1/2 recipes (14 cups) Roasted Salsa Verde.