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Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦

@borntocreate.bsky.social

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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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Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · 1d

Busy trying to figure out pin weaving. Not having any luck.

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · 9d

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.

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Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · 11d

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.

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · 13d

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.

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · 16d

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.

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · 20d

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!

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · 25d

The finished multicoloured wool yarn! And a tote bag front. Lots of fun! #spinningyarn #RugHooking

Rug hooked fishes in ocean motif on side of tote bag.

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Sep 23

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.

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Sep 19

Sigh. I’ve decided I need a couple more. Hopefully they won’t take as long as these did!

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Sep 17

Stumpwork pansies, ready to be attached to “The Farm”

#RugHooking

Three stumpwork pansies ready to be attached to the lower border of “The Farm”, a fibre piece created with a variety of fibre techniques.

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Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Sep 14

Canning applesauce, spinning yarn, embroidering the last of the stumpwork pansies, and planning and planting a fall garden. Life is busy. I will post more photos when I actually complete something! Have a great day everyone!

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Sep 9

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).

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank-you!😊

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

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Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sale was a success! Yahoo!

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Aug 31

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.

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Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Aug 30

I was right. Almost 6 pounds exactly! Made 1 1/2 recipes (14 cups) Roasted Salsa Verde.

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Aug 29

Oops! Forgot to post alt text on the second photo! It’s a bag of tomatillos! Must be at least 5 pounds of them!

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Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.

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Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Aug 24

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.

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Aug 19

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 singles on the bobbin on my spinning wheel.

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Aug 19

This touched me deeply as my own daughter was hit by a car as a teen on her bike. I hope your “third” daughter heals quickly and well.

Jean Ottosen 🇨🇦 @borntocreate.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.