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Cattails Studio- Brenda Watts Woodwork: My Block is up !!! PEI Arts & Heritage Trail

Cattails Studio- Brenda Watts Woodwork: My Block is up !!! PEI Arts & Heritage Trail: "My husband and daughter kindly hung my Barn Quilt Block on the front of my studio today..Soooo happy to have it up...I enjoyed painting it s..."

PEI Arts and Heritage Trail - watch for the signs



PEI Arts and Heritge Trail is open..



our potting shed is waiting for the sign..



Gunter doesn't get it.....



neither does Jack...

Today we saw our new arts and culture Trail sign for the first time. It is called "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul" - an old quilt block and now a hooked rug design too. the sign in on the potting shed in my front yard here in Millview, PEI.  A long time ago I hooked the original rug from rags and to date, it is still my favorite rug. Although it it still for sale, I'll be happy if no one likes it enough to take it home.

My Hummingbirds are Really Big

not you average hummer...

not your average baby...

Sweet Rocket in the back yard...

Our pets are not always like anyone else's. The duck has two ducklings and one white chicken; the hummingbird feeder attracted some yellow birds this am. The dog is allowing mice in the porch but after they are in the trap dead, he goes after them. He's supposed to be a terrier, a Jack Russell. I thought we would never see mice again but no, we still have to get out the old traps and do the job ourselves while Jack helps. He helps herd the ducks. In the wrong direction. He eats Gunter's food from the cat dish even if I trick him and put his own food in there.

not your usual rooster, I guess...

I hooked this rooster in the winter and used a grey tweed wool yarn from MacAusland's Woollen Mills on PEI for the background. The other wool is cut strips.

PEI community fights global hunger | peicanada.com - news that matters to prince edward island

PEI community fights global hunger | peicanada.com - news that matters to prince edward island

Cattails Studio- Brenda Watts Woodwork: Whales, PEI and World Ocean Day

Cattails Studio- Brenda Watts Woodwork: Whales, PEI and World Ocean Day: "Yesterday was World Ocean Day so to celebrate this as all good Islanders should I took a big old piece of willow and carved a whale... I tr..."

Eagles on PEI - - Hooked Ones...

Student art was part of the Eagle Festival; Students from Mt. Stewart school presented all their eagle art...amazing...the kindergarten ones were made of tissue paper and many of the families came in to view their work on display; winners received passes to the event for the family. heather's eagle is above and mine below...

That Bald Eagle Gives Me the Jitters



have to keep myself alert for
sudden attacks from birds overhead....


Today is the day that this guys gets out of Jack's hair and goes to the finishing stage....final touches, steaming, finishing edges, and pocket for rod to hang.

see you at the Hillsboroufg Eagle Festival on the weekend.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hillsborough-River-Eagle-Festival/126380804042251?sk=wall#!/topic.php?uid=126380804042251&topic=379

Have joined the Link up Party at Funky Junk..visit to see the wonderful creations or to show everyone your own project...click on the link below

Hand-hooked eagle to fly on the weekend on PEI..



boring....wool...



She should be flying over Mount Stewart by Friday for the weekend of the Hillsborough Eagle Festival. I've decided that I should tell you how things are going and what I'm actually doing to bore Jack so much. I have hand-dyed the blue sky...

I have cut the wool into strips with the strip cutter and keep the strips in order so that I can hook them consecutively...looks easy but it's a little hard on the brain....every long strip in order, so that the mottled dye job will represent the colors in the blue sky.

keeping track is worth the trouble...you'll see...

Then you can get the full effect in the sky; but you have to look closely at the real thing. For some unknown reason the lighter spots on the wool hooked in around the bird...if I tried to do it, it probably would not work like that. Looks like I planned it that way; did you know that rug-hooking is like everything else in life: sometimes you win and sometimes you lose but always plug away anyway. I won this round so far but...I will not show you the finished ground in the piece until tomorrow....or until it works as well as the sky did....



she's flying over Mount Stewart PEI....



Now here is the latest version of her, flying happily over Mount Stewart - the river is in the shape of an S according to Rosemary Curley who sent me a Google map of the area...something mostly seen only by eagles  and other fliers.

Dogs and Eagles and Babies and Flowers

I never get anything done around here. Too many projects and not enough time for them all. so I do what I feel like doing and works for me. Housework is not on my radar, not even close so when you visit, you'll notice but I have good intentions, just not great intentions to waste my time slaving over dust.




I don't know why she plants more flowers...

 


I can hook but she won't let me...





Dar..n baby; they think she's cute and cuddly...

 


And Barry is no Better...old things...



And the birds are just plain weird around here...

These pics tell you why.... i never get anything done in the line of a day....

Hand Hooked Eagle for Eagle Festival

You can't have the chair..

Because we are going to be demonstrating rug hooking at the Eagle Festival next weekend in Mount Stewart, just a few miles from here, we'll be donating one of the prizes for their fund-raising raffle. I understand that first prize will be a trip to an eagle's nest. That would be quite the win for a naturalist or adventourous person, wouldn't it?  I am not sure how that compares to winning our original design of Canadian maple leaves on a traditions piece you could win it and take it home for your own 'seat'.  If all goes well this week, our eagle wall-hanging will be hooked and ready for viewing, if not it will will be our demonstration piece as we show folks how it is done in the traditional Island way. Perhaps we'll see you there.

Hillsborough River Eagle Festival and Pastimes PEI

Hillsborough River Eagle Festival is on Facebook: look under discussions for the 2011 schedule. We will be hooking there on June 11 and 12. We are donating  a chair pad for the fundraising raffle for the eagles so come on up and see us hooking on our eagle rugs.