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
$14 PLUS SHIPPING ***SOLD***

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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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BOOKS FOR SALE

I thought I would put up some of my books that I have left for sale tonight.  These books are new, never used.

FIRST UP IS:
 Hooked Mats of Newfoundland and Labrador:
 Beauty Born of Necessity
$25 PLUS SHIPPING
2 LEFT

Book Description
Hooked Mats of Newfoundland and Labrador - Beauty Born of Necessity Compiled by The Rug Hooking Guild of Newfoundland and Labrador is a documentation of the hooked mats in Newfoundland and Labrador (RHGNL). The book is a significant contribution to the craft community of the province, and provides inspiration, understanding and a collegiality that time does not diminish. This is a recording of a craft that has played, and continues to play a major role in our textile industry.

Sculptured Rugs in Waldoboro Style
From Rug hooking Magazine
$19 PLUS SHIPPING
1LEFT

Book Description:
Waldoboro hooking, an early method of rug hooking, is gaining popularity in the field of fiber arts today. Nationally recognized rug hooker and designer, Jackye Hansen and her student, Trudy Brown, bring their expertise and research together to present Sculptured Rugs in Waldoboro Style brought to you by Rug Hooking magazine. Each page is filled with information on the history behind the art form, examples of traditional Waldoboro rugs as well as contemporary designs, and how this style can be used in today’s hooking methods.
84 pages.

Rug Hooking Magazine
June/July/August 2005
$9 PLUS SHIPPING
1 LEFT

The Art of Felt
Inspirational designs, textures and surfaces
$31 PLUS SHIPPING
1 ONLY
Book Description:

An inspiring, all-color survey of designs and patterns for this popular craft

Often thought of as a practical material, felt can be surprisingly versatile and even poetic.With handmade felted fabrics, subtle variations in color, texture, and volume can be achieved: threads and fibers merge almost magically to form new motifs that can then be enlivened by embroidered or crocheted details.

Françoise Tellier-Loumagne takes an original approach to the world of feltmaking, finding design inspiration in calm morning skies, spectacular sunsets, and brilliant fireworks displays. The book includes basic techniques that can be used to create felted fabrics from scratch, such as needle-felting and tufting, along with imaginative ideas for ready-made felt. With a little artistic guidance, clouds across the moon can be turned into an eye-catching necklace, or a stormy sky may inspire a striking scarf or cushion cover.

Illustrated with hundreds of images, this book will be a treasure trove for anyone interested in original textile design. The author has taught textile and knit design in France for more than forty years.

304 pages

Making Felted Friends
$17 PLUS SHIPPING
1 ONLY
Book Description
Crafters everywhere are discovering the joys of feltmaking. Working with fleece roving now readily available at yarn and craft stores is fun, tactile, and easy for all ages and levels of crafters. The 25 irresistible projects in Making Felted Friends show how creative it can be to work with this colorful, malleable medium using wet and needle-felting techniques. From cats, dogs, and penguins to snakes, dinosaurs, and monkeys, all the favorite animal friends are covered. Many start with a simple armature, which is wrapped with fleece roving. Then, with the addition of a bit of soap, water, and elbow grease, most projects can be made in several hours. Felting invites embellishment, and these projects make the most of it with brightly colored spots, stripes, spikes, and beaks that offer the imaginative crafter opportunities for sculpting one-of-a-kind creatures. Playful and cuddly to hold, some of these fuzzy felted friends make perfect toys. Others are designed to add a decorative touch to a tabletop or mantel display. Whether given as gifts or kept for entertainment and inspiration, the comical critters in this original felted menagerie are sure to become friends for life.
128 pages

The Big Book of Needle Felting
$12 PLUS SHIPPING
1 ONLY
Book Description
The newest gotta-have-it guidebook for a skill that`s growing in popularity, this book from Kooler Design Studio offers techniques and instructions for more than 50 beautiful, innovative projects. It primarily features projects by Kay Kaduce and Judy Jacobs, as well as an extensive section on jewelry felting by Rona Horn. Includes more than 300 how-to photos and patterns. Chapters include fun purses, glamorous clothing, fresh felted flowers, gorgeous jewelry and a home decor chapter with garden art and holiday gifts. Techniques include making fabric from wool roving, outlining and embellishing with yarn, felting with repurposed sweaters, felting on stones, felting shapes, and felted balls and roses.
128 pages

Knit One Felt Too
$17 PLUS SHIPPING
1 ONLY
Book Description:
As Taylor notes, it's disconcerting to shrink a sweater in the washer, but if you knit a loose, oversize garment and then shrink it on purpose, you have turned a wool object into felt. But it's not quite as simple as that. Some yarns and some brands felt more quickly, some need a few minutes in the washer, and others require three full cycles. Taylor offers 25 projects, first showing how to knit the item, then how to get the desired look. The projects are quite inventive, from toddler slippers shaped like bunnies to wine bags decorated with grapes. Taylor's enthusiasm combined with the straightforward instructions and eye-catching color photos will entice knitters.
176 pages.

PINCUSHION TUESDAY

For those of you who follow my blog, I'm sorry I didn't post anything last week but I was away on vacation.  So tonight I"m back and here is the latest pincushion .  I like this creamer because its simply elegant with a white antique look and gold trim. I needle felted it with a nice brown Alpaca roving.  It mesures just over 3" high and 5" from handle to spout.

ALPACA PINCUSHION
$12 PLUS SHIPPING

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RUG HOOKING PATTERNS FOR SALE

Primitive Roses pattern by Ritteremere Hurst Field.  Hand drawn on Scottish Burlap. 
Pattern size is 23"X33"
$32 PLUS SHIPPING

Chrysanthemoms in the leaves rug hooking pattern by Ritteremere Hurst Field on Scottish Burlap
Finished size 17"X41"
$37 PLUS SHIPPING

Grandma's Cottage by RHF designed on Scottish Burlap SOLD THANK YOU
Finished size 19"X24"



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PINCUSHION TUESDAY

Welcome to Pincushion Tuesday and today I have a delicate fine bone china tea cup from Royal Albert, Cameo series.  The teacup is in perfect condition and has a cameo flower design on both sides of the teacup surrounded by little blue roses.  I needle felted a beautiful teal BFL wool in the tea cup which complements it very nicely.

ROYAL ALBERT PINCUSHION
$12 PLUS SHIPPING

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BLACK BIRD IS SOLD

Sorry to say that my hooked black bird on wooden display case was sold today.  That was the posting I did on February 6 I think.  Oh well, I can't keep everything I make.  But I also know that he is going to a good home in NS where he will be well looked after.  Thanks D.

Don't forget its Pincushion Tuesday folks, so will post the newest pincushion later this evening.