Jill showed me her lovely Maud Lewis rug (available from Highland Heart Hookery in Halifax) and the stitching she did along the edge of the shoreline. First she hooked in the shore line and grassy banks and next she backstitched on top of the loops with doubled yarn to give it a more grassy texture. She will continue this along all the grassy mounds and along the edge of the rowboat sitting in the sand dunes. Love this idea and am looking forward to trying it in a rug myself…
This week’s sale on rug hooking patterns will feature some of my own. Each of these (and any others you may like under Rughooking Patterns – HOOKED ON THE LAKE section) will be discounted 20%. Email me if you are interested, with your full address and I can let you know the total with shipping…(if you are in the U.S. I will let you know the approximate converted U.S. amount)…
Mary and Andrea hooked the same piece, Wynter (see my rughooking patterns page if you would like to hook this pattern) – and how different they both are. I think it is such fun when people make a pattern their own! by hooking, punching and embellishing it to suit their personality and style…
Sue finished her Sheep and Tongues kit and did a wonderful hit and miss border around it…
and wow, I finished a miniature punch needle – By the River (one of my Karla Gerard punch needle kits)…
I will attach it to this wonderful hornbook made by my friend Vince (I do have a couple still in stock in different sizes and shapes) and then cover the edges of the punch needle with either a yarn, a braid made of wool strips – something to hide those little bits of white edge that tend to show through…
This week’s highlighted Artist is Kathy Clark of Briarwood Folkart. These wonderfully primitive patterns will be available at 20% off for the next week. Email me with your address if you would like to order a pattern and I will let you know the total with shipping (and the approximate price in U.S. if you are in the States)…
and once again I am on the mouse hunt!!!! I guess it comes with living in the country – every fall we start the battle with the mice! Normally I know exactly where to put the live trap and every morning that same darned mouse is in the trap winking at me as he licks peanut butter off his whiskers. WELLLLL this morning was quite different – got up and immediately went out to turn on the kettle for my coffee before getting washed and hmmmmmm Lucky (one of the multiple cats) was crouched down staring under the couch. I should have known when he didn’t wake me up whining outside the bedroom door that something was up so down I went onto my knees and sure enough!!!! a little critter was under the couch. Nowwww, we have not had a mouse running around the house in years! But yesterday the weather was soooooo glorious that I left the front and back doors open and hmmmm the screen on the front door no longer closes up tightly and from experience I know that even a FAT mouse with a 2 inch girth can squeeze himself down to the size of a skinny pancake. Well, looks like the one that I let go in the garden (yup too lazy to drive the half mile to let it go in the sandpit where it could join the many others of its relatives) crept up the stairs and into the house! Well, when the mouse saw me and smelled the cat it went scooting across the room and hid someplace else so now I am hunting mouse!
But I do have time to share a few lovely new finished pieces people have sent me pictures of:
Sallie finished this lovely version of one of my Karla Gerard patterns – Primitive Floral:
Lois’ beautiful punched chickadee (pattern by Michelle Palmer)…and Winter Wonderland (one of my rughooking and punch needle patterns)…
and the new LISA FERGUSON pattern Christmas Fox is now available as a rughooking pattern 32 x 21 inches and a miniature punch needle pattern 11 x 7.5 inches.
Diane hooked and punched this smaller wonderful version of Wynter and I have added it as a pattern on my pattern page…
Firstly, a bit thank you!!! to everyone who has helped deplete my “in stock patterns” and kits. From over 120 patterns a few months ago I am down to 5 left in stock! These are marked on my Rughooking patterns page as in stock 25% off. Of course, I am still making up patterns as people order them so have decided that from now until the end of the year I will highlight a different artist every week and offer their patterns 20% off. This week I am featuring Ann Hallett’s wonderful patterns – email me if you would like to order a pattern and give me your postal or zip code so I can let you know the total with shipping in Canadian dollars (I can also give you the lower U.S. equivalent).
And a new Lisa Ferguson Pattern will be available later this week – hmmmm usually the fox would be drooling as it eyes those bunnies but this is a sweet, gentle fox! with no hunger pangs!…
And now for a bit of show and tell:
Elizabeth finished hooking her lovely Hudson’s Bay table runner…
Elaine finished punching her Witch (a Teresa Kogut punch needle pattern)… and Sherry finished her Punkin which was a free pattern in 2012 Create & Decorate Magazine – designer was Jo Ellen Dismukes at Lacey Jane Primitives…
Hooked On The Lake 