Sheep Frolic is latest pattern to hook at Pastimes PEI

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'Little PEI Cottage' Rughooking kit and the dust bath today

Also new at the shop..bette's latest Island Scene, wool on Cotton Warp.                   

It's always nice to put new things on the wall so the new Little PEI Cottage kit and the origional hooked piece fit nicely with Bette's new work. She modelled it from a homestead she saw in orwell. prince Edward Island. it looks exactly like Orwell because, the houses are set back from the road on that drive to Eldon on the Trans Canada Highway, Route 1 on the way to the Wood Island's ferry.

We have already sold a couple of the new little kits; we are always happy when people like them as much as we do. You can see that we are carrying a few select pieces of Brenda Watt's Woodworking. the cutting boards and wine stoppers are very popular items as well as the acorn doorstoppers. .. easy to pack and bring back to friends as an unique souveneir of PEI.

Yesterday a really nice flower in the garden was damaged by some of the folks here; I'll show you what I mean via this morning's pictures in the garden:



The 'people' disturbing the flowers for their own pleasure..





and their friends joined in....



they are not that cute.....look at me, guys...

Cock of the Walk...



getting reaady for harvest...



first customer at Pastimes PEI today

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Pastimes PEI rughooking wools -greens - Jack's Picks



Jack's Picks - greens



what would lupins be without green behind them?

It would be safe to say that today Jack and I could have picked any color of the rainbow in the wools in the shop today but we chose greens. that's because Heather has just finished a pretty little sampler that could hang on the wall or be the front of a cushion. So it's greens for today. Greens set the mood of your hooking... bright for a springy feeling or more to the orangy side for the fall. I've set out some to show you with the hooked piece in the background. It contains lots and lots of greens so don't be afraid to dig out your scrap bag to invent your own kind of landscape.....or leaves or whatever needs to be green....As for the lupins I found down the road, what would blues and purples be with a gorgeous green background? Pretty dull. Colors need each other..... You'll find lots of wools in our shop today as I have been filling up the 'hit and miss' baskets and all the other baskets of small treasures for rug hookers. We have restocked - I mean, Heather has hand drawn lots of our most popular summer patterns. We have photo cards of our hooked work here too. Cheers, Shirlee and Jack

My Friend's Sunflower Hooked Rug from PEI

nice mat....did you do it yourself?

I have to be in every picture, you guys...

Cindy's original Sunflower mat with some of our wool

I could have done that myself....

This morning bright and early my hooker friend and her son visited Jack and I. It was quite a job getting a picture of them with the mat as you can see. It is not finished as she came for more wool to finish it. Later on she's coming back for more pieces from my rag bin. What we do not use does not go to waste, someone else can use it. That's what they used to do in the past, when things were used not thrown out.












I have fresh new baskets of of rags that I sell for those who have to have just one more color. I also have a great selection of MacAusland's PEI  http://www.macauslandswoollenmills.com/ wool yarn and Briggs and Little New Brunswick (http://www.briggsandlittle.com wool yarn in different plies for either knitting or hooking. We use this wool yarns for both hooking and for whipping around the edges of our mats. It's an Island tradition to hook in both rags and yarn so we like to carry on with the traditional materials as much as possible.

It's fun to learn to hook for yourself....

You may get to help us work on a mat if you drop by. There is usually a seat at the big mat frame. We have lots of new patterns that are hot-off-the-press too. Cheers, for today from Jack and Shirlee.

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.