Dolly's Dress and Bib on the same Feedsack

Here's Dolly on a Feedsack

Christmas SNOWFLAKES on a Feedsack!!!!!!

Can you believe I found this feedsack fabric while digging through my stash this am?!? Oh me!!! Oh my!!! I'm in FEEDSACK HEAVEN!!!! It just doesn't get any better than this!!!

The sunshine is pouring in through the back windows of the family room warming our home, and I am having quite a time going through more feedsacks and deciding which to keep and which to sell.

This snowflake one is not a complete sack. So, I plan to sell half of it and to keep the remaining less than half piece for me. Maybe, I will list it on eBay next week.

I love Christmas, Jesus Being the Reason for the Season, family togetherness, and all the delightful decorations and aromas that go along with this joyuos time!!! Last night, I even wove a basket of reed and used green and red in it with a reed bow added. Then stained the whole thing golden oak. You can imagine what fun I had there with eight other females making and designing our baskets. I will add a picture of mine in one of my other blogs soon. Maybe, I will display a feedsack with it!!!

I'm addicted to the TV program about Martha Stewart and her apprentice candidates. Wednesday night when the winning team got to go to another of her houses to spend some time, I got the emptiest feeling when I saw that big mansion. It didn't seem warm and cozy. I really felt sorry for Martha, and thought she doesn't know what she's missing!!!

Well, I'm going back to my winter wonderland and see what else I can find.
Later, Nancy

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas!!!

I bought 3 pairs of these feedsack Christmas curtains today at the indoor mall where I have my art and collectibles business. I had seen them yesterday, but wanted to make sure they were feedsacks before I bought them. The dealer is going out of business and was having a sale. I got them for 60% off paying less than $5 for each pair of curtains. I love them more all the time, and already have them hanging in the kitchen. They were made for the three windows there, it seems, and have really put me in a Christmas mood. I went to the thrift store today and bought lots of Christmas items as they were just bringing them out. Got an old nativity scene, lots of Christmas craft books, nice Christmas teddy bears, some baskets and pretty tins. Then I went to Walmart to get my walking exercise and bought five boxes of Christmas cards. Most have pics of nativities on them.

I'm planning to make most of my gifts this year. Will have my last basket class next week when I learn to make a Williamsburg basket. I'm into gingerbread men this year, and hoping to paint some on little gourds for ornaments.

Deer hunting season starts here tomorrow. Billy Bob and his two brothers are spending tonight out at our mountain place so they can get up early and go hunting. Hunting season is a festive time for him, his brothers and his sons. They have their bid domino championships in the evenings. It also gives me a little time to myself. I'm not complaining. Maybe, I can put up more Christmas decorations before he comes home.

Now, where is that little gingerbread man that I bought on sale last year? He's needed on a shelf over the kitchen sink right next to the pretty curtains.

Catch y'all later.
Nancy

Well, eBay has been well worth the while.

I sold 7 of the 9 items I listed this past week, and feel like patting myself on the back. Now, I need to get more things ready to sell. I listed another feedsack and a bunch of 20 six inch squares. Posting a pictures of them here. I didn't sell the WW II Kent's Cloth of the United Nations. Two other sellers listed it after I did. They were both lower priced and one had a reserve. I will not compete or compromise with that sack. It is a valuable piece of history, and I will hold onto it for a while. I need to get more squares cut since I will be trading some with other members of the Feedsack Memories group soon. I plan to trade 80 six inches squares. They will be in 10 pkgs of 8. I used to really enjoy trading the squares in the old feedsack club in the early to mid 90's when we were doing everything by snail mail. We had a newsletter called "Switches and Swatches" that Jane Clark Staple edited. Was so neat to get those little packages in the mail. Nice memories.

Later, Nancy

Can't Believe I'm Doing the eBay thing!!!!

Well, here I sit at my desk and feel that I am quite an entrepreneur. :o) Feedsacks and quilt books are listed on eBay. I've been a buyer on there for several years. Now our house is bursting at the seams!!! IT'S TIME FOR ME TO SELL!!!

Can't believe that I am parting with some of my quilt books. Here's one that got listed this pm. The Watercolor Quilt book has a a plastic Ruby Beholder that always fascinated me. By looking at the fabric through it you can see the value of the different fabrics. I love anything to do with color and art. I will never really use it, though, in making a quilt. I really have to get rid of lots of stuff. I feel like I am being buried alive. So far I have 7 feedsacks listed, too. Now, I am waiting for the camera batteries to recharge so I can get some better pics of more feedsacks to sell. I feel this is where I am supposed to be at this stage of my life and I'm doing what I am supposed to be doing. Just wish I had a little more get up and go!!!

I sat in the living room this pm watching Little House on the Prairie. Had little Ellie Rose wrapped up in a little quilt and rocked her. She seems like a real baby to me. I really savor those times as it is so comforting. Billy Bob was on the pc checking out stuff on eBay. I am anxious to see what he will want me to list for him. I am concerned about him and his health. I know I have some serious problems, and don't know if I can handle him having worse one. He got a call today from the VA and has to go back on Monday to see a doctor about some abnormal test results. I already feel like I am running a rest home and I am one of the residents. At least I have my feedsacks, books, and little dog to give me comfort.
God bless you all and goodnite.

Later, Love, Nancy
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/shenanny

Red Gone with the Wind Feedsack

Next to the Feedsack Dolly, this GWTW sack is my favorite. Actually, I have three of the sacks sewn together making a large tablecloth. I bought the cloth several years ago at an estate auction. Of the three colors the sack came in, red, yellow and blue, the red one is the most valuable at about $100 per sack.

I am blessed to be a native of the Shenandoah Valley of VA where feedsacks were plentiful when I was growing up because of the poultry growing. Our family raised 2000 broilers at a time, and had laying hens. The feed for other farm animals came in the bags, too, but mostly I remember the bags with the chicken feed. Nancy

Maybe, the quilt will be a wallhanging!!! :o)

Since I am starting to get well and have lots of other irons in the fire, I probably will quit with this project for now. I think it is pretty bright to be a whole quilt. Will leave it as my first cyberspace wallhanging.

You can imagine that I trimmed it with red rick rack!!!
Later, Nancy aka Shenanny