Mothers Day

Hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day. My kids came to the house and fixed me homemade pizza. I am blessed with such  wonderful great children! I love you all so much!! 

I have been working on putting in our vegetable garden and doing things outside. The weather has been pretty and it's hard to stay inside. I've been painting a set of rockers that are on the front porch. They looked really bad as all the white had chipped off. I decided they needed a little color. Next is repainting the shutters on the house. 

Snow Dyeing Again

We've had enough snow to do some snow dyeing again. This time I'm trying to dye some canvas. I'm not sure how well it will take the color. I guess I'll find out tomorrow. 

Working on a new website

Sorry everyone! I know it's been a long time since I have been on here. I have had a really busy November. I am trying to build a new web store. Trying is the key word there. Nothing seems to be going right. I have had trouble at every turn. To top it all off, my daughter had a major surgery and my mother-in-law had to go by ambulance to the hospital. Both were on the same day and in two different towns. It was a blessing that my firefighter/EMT husband was at home that day. I took my daughter for her surgery and the hubby went with his mom. Both are home and recovering, but it was a crazy time.

I thank you for sticking in there with me. I promise a nice Grand Opening Sale.

'Til then shop my Etsy shop!

www.etsy.com/shop/bearhollowquilts

Thanks Sandy

Flight delayed

We'll I'm sitting in the airport waiting for our delayed plane to arrive. Hope it's only a hour and not later.  This will be the first trip to quilt market. I'm excited to see all the new stuff coming out. I'll try to keep you updated (if I ever get there). :-(

Sandy 

Winners

I picked the 2 winners from the pin cushion blog hop.   Theresa has won the fabric bundle. I have not heard back from the 2nd winner yet so, that may come up for grabs again.

I am in the process of changing web servers so bearhollowquilts.com will not be functioning for a short while. My Etsy shop is still open and you can shop there for now. You will receive a 10% discount on any purchase over $5.00 by using the code     10OFF   

I hope you will bear with me through this change. If you have any questions please contact me by leaving a  

conversation on the Etsy site.

                 Bear Hollow Quilts & Such Etsy Shop

I haven't been working very much lately as my Dad has been visiting from Arizona. 

I am working on a Halloween quilt and will post pictures as I progress.

Thanks for your patience,

Sandy 

Thanks for all the Responses--Giveaway Sept 18,2013

I want to thank everyone for all the comments left. I went out of town and did not have internet service. I couldn't answer all the comments on my phone. I will try to drop you all a line now that I'm home. I will draw for the prizes on Sept 18th, 2013. Make sure you have left me a way to contact you. Thanks Sandy

Today is My Day for the Pincushion Blog Hop

Well today is my day. I guess my pincushion is better fitted to the Wicked Blog Hop.  I want to thank Kristen and Madam Samm for hosting the hop. It has been fun.

I have Halloween on the brain and I love to watch The Walking Dead so I decided to use a piece of my snow dyed fabric for my pincushion. I cut a rectangle, sewed together the short ends.

 Then I ran a gathering stitch around each end and gathered one end tight, then sewed it shut.

I then added rice to the bottom and polyfil to the top half and gathered tight and sewed shut.

And now you get to meet my creation.

Meet Griswald my zombie friend.

 Hope you enjoy the rest of the blog hop! Please be sure to check all the other great creations from all the other bloggers today. Now a Giveaway! If you sign up to follow my blog please leave me a comment telling me you follow and for another chance to win leave me a comment telling what your favorite pattern is in my etsy store. 

Bear Hollow Quilts & Such

Don't forget to check out the other bloggers.

September 13

Quilting In South Carolina

Negligent Style

Debby Kratovil Quilts

Sew Many Yarns

News From Bear Hollow

Around The Homestead

Living with Purpose

Buzzing and Bumbling

Colorpoint Quilter

Scraps of Life

Daisy Days

Stitchduchess

Life @ RuffHaven

AnnieOak Designs

Grandmama's Stories

Suebee's World

Handmade by Mama

Labor Day Yard Sale with Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville

I have a bunch of fabric that I have had in my basement for a long time. I have been going through some of it, washing and ironing it and now I want to get rid of some of it. Here's your chance to get some of my treasures. I can't keep it all--I'm keeping a lot as it is. If you could only see my sewing room--EEK! Actually you can't really see my sewing room because it's piled to the ceiling with all kinds of stuff. Anyway back to the SALE.

Here are some of the things listed. 

 Read on to the bottom and you will find a link.

 I'm adding more stuff all day.

 Keep checking the Etsy site.

 I'm going to list stuff in my Etsy shop that I'm willing to part with.You will find these items listed under YARD SALE ITEMS of my store.  Bear Hollow Quilts & Such   If you find something you want--buy it please. If you have any questions send me a conversation through Etsy. After you look around ant the sale stuff please look at the regular stuff I have for sale. You all need to check out all the other listings on Bonnie's blog.  http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2013/09/labor-day-yard-sale.html There are links to a bunch of other Yard Sales. How much more fun could it be??? You don't have to drive around and burn gas, great right! I'LL BEING IRONING AND LISTING ALL DAY!! Keep checking back.

Thanks for looking and have fun.
Sandy

Snow Dyed Fat Quarters

Sorry I haven't posted lately. August is always a busy time of year for me. I have 2 children with birthdays 2 days apart in August. My daughter Rachel's birthday is the 15th and my son Josh's is the 17th. We always celebrate them together. When they were little, I always made sure they each had their own cake. I have some wonderful children and I have been blessed with 2 others that I have helped raise from a young age. In all, I have 3 beautiful and special daughters and a handsome talented son. They each have their own special gifts and I love them all dearly.

Well enough of that--sorry I got carried away there. Get to the quilt stuff. I have been washing & ironing lots of my old stash fabrics. You will be seeing some of those starting to pop up on my Etsy site soon. I have added some snow dyed or hand dyed fat quarters there already. I will be working to get them up on  bearhollowquilts.com as well.

My cat Diz--short for Dizaster was picking her favorite.

Yes you will probably get a few cat hairs with your fabric. She is my sewing buddy and she's sooo cute.

"No please don't make me get out of the scrap basket".

Okay I need to get serious here.

 A preview of some of the snow dyed fat quarters.

 I like the little guy with the mustache in this one.

Some of these might end up in my pin cushion.

The address for my Etsy site is

etsy.com/shop/bearhollowquilts

Pincushion Blog Hop

I am going to be participating in the Pin cushion blog hop. You will have to keep checking back to see what I come up with. I think it might be something crazy!! You never know.

Happy pinning,
Sandy

bearhollowquilts.com

I tried Sun Dyeing

Hi everyone. Sorry I've not posted in awhile. We went out of town to one of my favorite places--the North Shore of Lake Superior. I just love it there, not to mention it's much cooler! What a beautiful place.

 Ok enough of that. I could go on forever about the north shore. 

I tried my hand at sun dyeing. I gathered up a few items.

 I added some water to small bowls and added paint to them. I then brushed this on wet fabric. I added some fern leaves and regular leaves (all silk leaves I bought at Michael's). I laid  them around on the wet fabric and placed a piece of Plexiglas over the top so the leaves wouldn't blow off. It's always windy at my house. You should have seen me trying to keep them all down and chasing them around when they blew off the table.

 I left them in the sun for a couple of hours then took off the leaves.

They didn't turn out as well as I had hoped but they were drying fast because it was so hot.

I'll give it another chance. It was fun!

Keep Stitching,

Sandy

bearhollowquilt.com

Happy 4th of July

Hi everyone. I hope everyone will be safe today but have fun. We had our celebration last night. My firefighter husband has to work today. I hope he's not too busy today!

Jesse James in guerrilla shirt

I have been working on some civil war clothing lately. I make confederate guerrilla shirts like the one Jesse James is wearing in one of his famous pictures. What do you think?

My version 

Have a safe and happy 4th!

 Sandy