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

Painting with Mom

I took my mom to a Colors and Bottles class. We had a great time. My picture seems to be missing something. I think I need to add some trees or something. What do you think?

I've been washing tons of fabric that has been in my basement. It has a musty smell since it's been there for years and years. I've been finding stuff from 1998 and 2000. I am going to be bundling some of it and putting it up for sale. I'll let you know when I do this and where I will be selling it at. My house is going to be like a sauna after I iron all this. Watch for frizzy hair!

Keep on Stitching
Sandy

Oh the Weather Reports and 15% Off Sale

I didn't go to the Barn today after all. I listened to the weather report this morning. They said the wind was going to blow a steady 10-15 mph with gust to 30 mph today. I don't think it really happened. I did not go today because we fought the wind all day Friday and the dust was really bad. I was worried that today would be worse. It wasn't at my house. I don't know if it was in Hamilton. I think I missed going today because I listened to the weather report. Oh well I guess that's the breaks when you do outdoor activities. I did make good use of the day though. I spent it with my youngest daughter, Katy. We did some ice dyeing. It was both fun and productive. I'll put up pictures after it gets finished. I have one that is an ice dyed parfait. Now doesn't that sound interesting. We shall see!   Sale at the shop--15% off everything!!!!
Have a good Memorial Day,
Sandy         http://www.bearhollowquilts.com