Fibre Gatherings Road Trips & Friends

What a wonderful week we have had weather wise in Nova Scotia for the beginning of September, we are so blessed. Friday, some like minded fibre friends and I traveled to New Glasgow for the Woolstock East Fibre Festival. Wonderful day and above we enjoyed a meal in Pictou by the water. Has been many years since I had visited Pictou, reminds me of Lounenburg, NS.

No update from me on my hooking project been too busy dyeing wool for the upcoming two hook-ins I am vending in. September 16, 2024 in Northport...

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Milestones

This past week, children, teens and young adults returned to school in Nova Scotia. A milestone for many, i .e. First day of primiary, or junior high, or high school, or university. Either way, nerves for students and teachers alike were high. Now it is time to get down to work!

I haven’t worked any more on my rug since I got home from my rug hooking retreat. I went to Halifax to help my daughters family out for my granddaughters first day of primiary. Yes there were tears. Remembering the many first days of...

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That’s A Wrap!

The Labour Day long weekend is usually greeted with mixed feelings. The end of summer, and children are back to school. Enjoy every last drop that you can of summer.

Last week I enjoyed a few days at a rug hooking retreat in PEI. This group of ladies were fabulous, loads of belly laughs! A few pictures below.

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Summer Continues


We have been blessed with some beautiful weather the last week. The above photo was taken at the Victoria Park in Truro, NS.

The Colchester Heritage Rug Hookers meet at the Victoria Park in the summer. A few of us from Amherst drove down to join them last week. Was a gorgeous day. The photo below of some of the group.

Exciting news, a couple of the ladies entered their rugs into the local Nova Scotia Provincial Exhibition Rug Hooking Show,...

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Camaraderie

What has always drawn me to rug hooking, has been the camaraderie.  The act of rug hooking continues to be enjoyable but it is the people that keep me doing it. I began rug hooking in 2006. You may have heard me say that a fellow worker (Carol Ann) and a friend of hers (Marcia) were going to take a rug hooking course with Edie Cole Legere, a renowned McGown trained teacher, who happened to live in our town at that time. I over heard Carol Ann telling another employee that...

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