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I was up last night around 2:00am, couldn’t sleep. I was trying to figure out how to solve everyones problems..and I had the coolest idea for a rug. I am soooooooooooo excited about it and I will post part of it when completed. I will have the complete unveiling at the NS Folk Art Festival […]
I used black for the flower stems and that really seems to work with the olivey green background. Just three more flowers to complete and the background and voila! C’est fini!
I have been working full tilt on the commissioned piece and happy to say, things are going well! The green and golds I dyed last week are really making a nice background….if I do say so myself. My goal is to have it completed on Friday and then I will share the whole piece with […]
I often feel a little nervous making commissioned pieces..I worry that the image the buyer has in their mind, isn’t quite what I have in mine, and they will be unhappy with it. So I tend to stay away from it all together. But, maybe I just need to be brave and do it and […]
I had fun in the kitchen this morning dying some wool for a “Flowers in Vase” rug. I don’t use a recipe, much like how I cook. I just throw things in and hope for the best. Well, actually, it is a little more thought out than that. I have had some complete failures in […]
Three rugs, “Spotted Cow”, “Girl in Chaos” and “Lady Sitting in Chair with Fish” are off to Jonathan Otter’s gallery in Earltown NS. Jonathan Otter, the very talented and kind Furniture Maker. I am thrilled to have my work at his lovely gallery.
The tags were just put on , prices marked and off they will go to Sugar Moon Farm, http://www.sugarmoon.ca/ Go for a hike, eat some yummy pancakes..with maple syrup of course and then buy a rug…nice day, right? Thanks Quita!
Just getting rugs ready to be sent off to be juried for the NSDCC show Titanica…keeping my fingers crossed that they will be accepted. Crying Fish I went to a talk at the Colchester Historical Museum in Truro this winter titled “Nova Scotia and the Titanic”. The speaker, Dan Conlin, mentioned that Halifax-based cable ships […]