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Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦
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Artist, fibre arts and crafts, photography, dyer (natural and synthetic), nature journaling, foodie, cooking, gardener, beautiful Nova Scotia! (she/her). (I hold copyright to all my original work.)
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Preparing for an exhibit and sale! #RugHooking
Couch covered in rug hooked wall hangings, notecards and books, heading to an exhibit/sale that starts Monday.
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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More mini-skeins. They’re piling up! Most are mixed fibres (wool, silk, Tencel, bamboo, Angelina), some just wool. All are 10 grams each. Mostly DK weight or heavier. I’m selling to rug hookers. Any idea what I should sell them for?
#RugHooking #SpinningYarn
Bin with home spun mini skeins destined for sale to rug hookers. Top to bottom: “Moss” (Merino wool), “Sunflower” (Shetland wool and silk), “Poppy” (Merino wool). That’s the top layer. I have a wool mix I call “Northern Lights”, an orange blend (wool, silk, Angelina) I call “Sunset”, and “Ocean” (wool, silk, bamboo, Tencel and Angelina) beneath these.
October 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Turning hand spun skeins of yarn into mini skeins. #spinningyarn #rughooking
Basket full of large skeins of various types and colours of handspun yarn. Bin of mini skeins of hand spun yarn. Ocean, which is variations of blue, white and turquoise wool, silk, bamboo, Tencel and Angelina. Sunset, which is orange, red, yellow wool, silk, and gold Angelina. Excellent for rug hooked walll hangings!
October 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Busy trying to figure out pin weaving. Not having any luck.
October 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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It’s finished! Heading to a framer next. Thinking a shadow box would be best.
#RugHooking #TextileArt #FibreArt
Mixed fibre technique wall hanging called “The Farm”. Based on rug hooking, it includes: proddy, crochet, appliqué, embroidery, beadwork, stumpwork embroidery, and bargello embroidery. Fibres are a mix of commercial, hand dyed and hand spun. Appliqued and embroidered silver maple leaves top right corner…on spot dyed wool. Below that are proddy old fashioned roses done with hand dyed wool fabric. Proddy leaves. Beneath them are 3D beadwork raspberries, and proddy leaves. Beneath that are highbush blueberries with beads on padded appliqué and proddy leaves. Beneath that Swarovski crystal beads nestle in the old fashioned spirea in the lower right corner. Across the bottom, next to thespirea, are old fashioned pansies done with stumpwork embroidery. Beside them are crocheted daffodils with beaded centres. In the lower left corner are beaded red currants with proddy leaves. Moving up the left side are beads representing gooseberries, with proddy leaves. Above them os a lilac bush in bloom. Its flowers of hand dyed, hand spun yarn. Proddy leaves. Above the lilaccis an apple tree with apples hooked in bright red, and proddy leaves. And in the top left corner is a Sugar Maple tree with spot dyed wool fabric for leaves, and veins embroidered on with cotton embroidery floss. The central image of the wall hanging is an appliquéd image of a white two storey farmhouse and a front porch. The railing and columns hooked. Reverse hooking, using plaids and spot dyed wool, forms the window panes. The sky is done in bargello stitch with a commercial cotton yarn.
October 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Dye day results… #RugHooking #DyeingWool
Two shades of royal purple dyed wool fabric for rug hooking. Three different blue sets of graduated wool swatches for rug hooking. Graduatedspot dye using seal brown and black on natural Dorr wool.
October 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Dye day over. Lots of wonderful blues, some purple, and a gradated brown/back spot dye. Wonderful for sky, rocks and brightly coloured fishing shacks!
#RugHooking #DyeingWool
Large roasting pan with six jars of water and blue dye of varying amounts, dyeing wool swatches for rug hooking. Pasta pot on a hot plate with seven wool swatches being dyed royal purple.
October 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Straining juice from home grown grapes for jelly. Then roasting poblanos. Next up? Planning a breed study and doing some fibre dyeing. Nothing like variety! 😂 #canning #foodpreservation #spinning #dyeingwool
Zwartbles sheep braid for the breed study through our guild. Pot of grapes simmering to release juice for grape jelly.
October 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Busy preparing for a sale. Patterns and bags of fibre. #RugHooking
A rug hooking pattern on linen backing, ready to have its edge serged on the serger. 50 gram bag of white and off-white yarn for rug hooking. Great for Santa’s beard, sheep and clouds!
October 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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The finished multicoloured wool yarn! And a tote bag front. Lots of fun! #spinningyarn #RugHooking
Skein of multicoloured wool yarn. Rug hooked fishes in ocean motif on side of tote bag.
September 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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It’s off the spinning wheel and ready to be processed!

#spinningyarn #spinningwool
Spinning wheel bobbin with multicoloured blue, yellow, red, green and pink wool fibres. Plied together in a 2 ply yarn. Large skein of fine 2 ply yarn, ready for processing.
September 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Stumpwork pansies, ready to be attached to “The Farm”

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Three stumpwork pansies ready to be attached to the lower border of “The Farm”, a fibre piece created with a variety of fibre techniques.
September 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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A better look at the recent dye job. #RugHooking #DyeingWool
Dye job of green wool fabric, a light and a dark green wool yarn (3 ply and 5 ply), a green spot dyed piece of wool fabric, red wool fabric, red spot dyed wool fabric, and red dyed wool yarn (3 ply and 5 ply).
September 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Pickled Hot Peppers done! Finished dehydrating basil…for now. Tomorrow is more dehydrating. Maybe looking for local peaches too.

#food #homecanning #PickledHotPeppers
Five jars of pickled hot peppers cooling on the table.
September 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Recent dye jobs. using up my Majic Carpet dyes. Preparing for Christmas.
#RugHooking #dyeing #wool
Wool fabric and yarn, hand dyed red and green. Spot dyed green, and red yardage. Also Immersion dyed red, and green, yardage. Yarn, immersion dyed and spot dyed, in red and green. Two types of green: a grass green and a blue green.
September 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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20 pounds of tomatoes ready for antipasto and tomato basil sauce. There’s another 5 pounds of damaged ones I might be able to salvage. We’ll see.

#food #canning #tomatoes
25 pounds Ontario Roma tomatoes lined up on a tea towel, ready for antipasto and tomato basil sauce.
September 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Preparing for a sale this week. It’s been a busy day.
Partly filled tote bins open on the floor, awaiting packing for an upcoming sale. Some already packed tote bins stacked in the background. A basket of hand dyed hand spun yarn on top of one of the stacks.
August 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Some beautiful fresh produce from a relative’s garden! Roasted Salsa Verde coming up tomorrow! #hotpeppers #tomatillos
Table with four different varieties of peppers on it. The top one is unknown to me (and supposed to be mild), the second is Bastan (a variety of Poblano), the third is a red one unknown to me (about as hot as a Jalapeño), and the fourth are Hungarian Yellow Hot Wax Peppers.
August 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Been busy canning. Taking a break. Cupboard is filling up! #preservingfood #canning
Floor to ceiling canning cupboard three quarters full of canning. Rest of space is canning equipment and empty jars. Oh…and two shelves of some miscellaneous household items.
August 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Busy spinning more singles to ply with the multicoloured singles. It will be interesting to see what I get for a yarn! #SpinningYarn #SpinningWool
Pink wool rolags on a TV table. Pink wool singles on the bobbin on my spinning wheel.
August 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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More wonderful hooking!
Wall hanging of a grey tabby cat using a graphic technique. Cat sitting in grass amongst flowers done padula style. Background sky “painted” with different colour strips of wool. Either sunrise or sunset. Rosy colours near horizon and medium blue near top of piece. Two apple hot pads. One red on lime green background, and one lime green on red background. Heart shaped reflection on each heart. Yellow whipped edge. About 6 inches square. Rectangular landscape format rug. Coastal community by ocean with large flowing tree to the right.ocean with stylized waves in bottom third of rug. Houses in central third. Yellow sky. Tree full of what looks like blooming roses of different pale colours, with white highlights.
August 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Attended the Annapolis County Exhibition in Lawrencetown, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia last week. The Fundy Rug Hookers put on a wonderful display! Here are just a few of the pieces. #rughooking
Hooked rug runner with 2 rows of 4 apples, alternating half and whole, cut vertically, on squares outlined in black. Apples green, pink, red, cream coloured. Whipped edge in yellow. Square backgrounds alternating mottled green, red, and pink. Wallhanging containing alternative fibres and embellishments, such as driftwood and shells. Sand and sea. Whipped edge. Tan edge beside sand and teal edge beside the sea. An oval primitive floor rug. Multicoloured small squares on point inside three concentric borders, with two floral groupings (padulas) on either long sides of the rug. Borders alternate black with variegated wool. Red, blue and purple flowers. Squares on point look like leftover scraps outlined in solid colours. A lot of plaids and checks in this rug. Fundy Rug Hookers display. This was a much improved display from two years ago…the last time I was at the Exhibition.
August 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Pulling and curing garlic today.. #gardening
Spring planted garlic hung to cure.
August 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Our Indian supper last night. 🙂 details in Alt text. #food #IndianFood
India food on table, ready for supper. Garlic naan with parsley, chickpea salad, jeera rice, coconut tandoori chicken, mango pico de gallo, dilled hummus, raita, and mango lassi in goblets. Dessert was ice cream and the round donut balls in syrup.
August 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Back from a delightful trip to Digby Neck, Nova Scotia! Definitely plan to go back! 😁
Peter’s Island lighthouse. Chairs to view the view at Brier Island Lodge. Grand Passage lighthouse on Brier Island. Grand Passage between Long Island and Brier Island.
August 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM