PUNCHNEEDLE AND HOOKED CANDLE CUFFS

I hooked up a few primitive candle cuffs last week to put on my selling blog. They mesure roughly 11"X4", hooked on Linen and covered at the back with wool material. They are great to put around the larger candles to cover up the black spots once they have started to burn down and don't look as clean anymore. They are also great just to give that prim hooked look to your candles. The cuff ties at the back with wool yarn and there is a picture to show what that looks like (Prim stars cuff).

PRIM HEART CANDLE CUFF
This one was needle punched with Briggs & Little wool yarn on Linen
$10 PLUS SHIPPING

PRIM FLOWERS
Hooked with wool material #6 cut
$10 plus shipping

PRIM STARS
Hooked with wool material #6 cut
$10 PLUS SHIPPING

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HOOKED MINI PICTORIAL 5"X7"

I can now post my mini pictorial that I did last week since I gave hubby his gift this morning. He was brought up in Labrador and often played pond hockey and yes he's a Toronto fan. He was really touched by this little mat.This is a hooked piece adapted from a picture I found while Googleing for ideas. Its hooked with mainly #3,#4 cut wool.

PINCUSHION TUESDAY

Its 10pm here and I"m finally able to post my pincushion. We had trouble with our Internet provider all evening and it was to slow to download even a picture. Explorenet can be very frustrating at times. So before I go to bed, I'll introduce you to my latest pincushion. This white Mayfair Dinner Ware sugar bowl has blue peonies and its hard to see in the photo, but the bottom half of the bowl has a basket weave pattern all around it. It was needle felted with gorgeous blue wool roving.

Mayfair Pincushion
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MORE PICTURES

Here are more pictures of yesterday's hookin in Sackville.

HOOK-IN WITH THE SACKVILLE RUG HOOKING GROUP

Well I was finally able to get to a hookin today with my buddies and spent a great morning with these talented gals and what a great spread for lunch. There was homemade chicken stew and chilie and sweets. Mary Filmore's hot cross buns where delightfull. Thank you to all of you who put everything together and once again it was a nice time seeing everyone.
I thought I would post some pics of todays hookin. I hope the gals don't mind that I'm posting their mats but they were all so nice to look at and my friggin camera does not do the mats justice. I"m sorry I don't know all of your names.

I will post more tomorrow

The Keeping Room is having a giveaway

This is a neat Canadian selling blog that I just discovered.
This is their website:http://the-keeping-room.blogspot.com/2011/04/keeping-room-giveaway.html

Miniature Pictorials with Barb Leduc

I took the day off yesterday to spend some time with my BFF  and take a rug hooking class with some of the local Past Time Matters Rug Hooking group. The class was called small pictorials with Barb Leduc.  Barb is a gal from NS and helped guide us  in doing our pictorials.
We had a choice to do a 4"X6" or a 5"X7" for a mat.  This way it would be easier to put in a frame.  The gals I hooked with are very talented and each one had her own little story to tell in the pictorial.  It was a good day to take off and learn something new.  I won't show you what I hooked just yet because this is a gift for someone.  So until this person receives the gift I won't take a chance on showing it just yet.  But these little mats hook up quickly in a #3 and #4 cut and great for little gifts.  So here are some pics to show you what I did yesterday.

Here is Barb helping out my BFF(Anna) out with her little piping plover.  Anna is not happy with it because it keeps fading into the backround.  I told you to keep that darker blue in there.  But Anna is use to pulling out the wool in her hooking

Here are some of the other gals happily hooking away at their works of art and everyone of them was certainly that.

  

Here is Margie showing her log cabin.  It was great seeing you again Margie.

Carole hooked a beautiful church.  She's a great hooker.



These are some of Barb's little picorials.

Here's a close up of Anna's little birdie.  She has changed the look of it since and the Plover really stands out now.  Lucky for him because she was going to feed him to the Falcon hovering above if she didn't get it right.

PINCUSHION TUESDAY

Here is the latest pincushion I needle felted tonight with a delicate powder blue wool roving.  The delicate flowered  teacup is made of fine bone china by Paragon and is stamped on the bottom saying By Appointment To Her Majesty the Queen, China Potters.

PARAGON PINCUSHION
$15 PLUS SHIPPING

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PINCUSHION TUESDAY ***SOLD***

When I saw this lobster, It was screaming at me to turn him into a pincushion so I had to do it.  Growing up in the Maritimes, lobster was a meal on a regular basis during the lobster season so it brings back a lot of memories looking at this little guy.  I know this lobster is a male because he has slim hips,lol.  I needle felted this one with white Merino wool. This is a great pincushion for someone who loves to collects lobster memorabilia or to just put your pins into this funny one.  It mesures 6 1/2" long, 3" long and 2 1/2"high.

LOBSTER PINCUSHION
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HOOKED FOOTSTOOL

Well its a snowy day here today and its been snowing since yesterday afternoon.  What a great day to get creative.  I've been dabbling a little again at punch needle this morning and will show you what I've been doing.  I have an idea where this is going.

  I'm posting the little mat I finished hooking a while back and put it on a small footstool.
The mat is a little design of 2 hearts and leaves and hooked on a #6 cut with wool material.  As you can see the little wooden footstool is a bit worn at the corners wich gives its primitive look.  Mesurements are 14"x7"x8"high

$48 PLUS SHIPPING

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