Tammy 4 All Seasons Blog Hop - Looking Forward to Summer

Welcome to 

Creatin' in the Sticks

and 

my day in the 

Tammy 4 all Seasons blog hop.

Every participant had the choice of one of 4 different seasonal designs by Brooke Nolan to cross stitch

and

the choice of one of 4 seasonal designs of the
Pretty Pinny (a thread, needle, and scissor keeper) by Cory Blunt to stitch

and

Madame Samm's  Tammy Bag pattern to put everything together.

Lots of thanks to

Madame Samm at Sew We Quilt

and 

Mary at I Piece 2 Mary

for putting this blog hop together

and 

All of these wonderful sponsors:

BEAM N READ ( led light)

Brooke's Books ( seasonal vintage counted cross stitch designs)

Chitter Chatter ( applique and embroidered pinnies)

DMC ( heads and aida cloth)

H.A.KIDD ( monaco fabric)

MsAppleHeart ( Tammy Bag Pattern)

READERS ( best readers on the market for those who need to see their patterns

up close and personal) 

SNAP SOURCE  ( great gadget for adding snaps to our bags)

Yarn TREE  ( q-snaps)

My favorite season is summer so it was a "no brainer" which cross stitch pattern I would do.

Because I love to cross stitch but am quite slow at it, I started stitching this right after I received the pattern.

I just love Brooke's pattern and it was very easy to follow.

Later it occurred to me that I hadn't read the fabric requirements before... 

 oops

My stitches were a little bigger and I didn't want to start over...

SO, I did what anyone would do,

I enlarged the Tammy Bag pattern by 125% .

I can carry even more stuff than before.  win-win!!!

Vacationing in the summer

 you will find me out by the pool with a cup of coffee at the crack of dawn.  

I mixed it up a bit and chose the fall pinny with that sweet little cup of steaming joe.

I drink coffee every season...but love it in the summer by the pool in the sun.

I chose a red polka dot fabric to match the cross stitched swim suit for the bag

and a smaller dot fabric in black for the ruffle on the bag and pinny.

I stitched the cup with DMC floss and used the black dot fabric for the applique.

There is a magnet above the ruffled pocket on the back of the bag to hold the Pretty Pinny.

The pinny holds needles and and has a sweet little pocket on the back.

Fun in the sun.

I'm ready for summertime stitching with my readers to see all those little stitches,

DMC floss for the best stitches,

and my q-snap frame which I can never do without.

There are more seasons to see at my fellow hoppers today:

January 19, 2015

KrisLovesFabric

Ga's House

Secretly Stitching

Creatin' in the Sticks

Grandmama's Stories

WHY-KNOT-KWILT
CeLynn's Sunflower Patch

Leave them love with super sweet comments. 

 They spent a lot of time building these beautiful Tammy Bags to inspire you.

Happy Hopping!

ON A SIDE NOTE:

I need to thank my sweet son for taking me out to find sand and pools in Lawrence, Kansas for these pictures.  I don't think I've visited him without needing to do a photo shoot and he is always willing to help me.

This is us this afternoon before DH and I made the 5 hour drive home.

  Hubby, me, Randy and his girlfriend, Andie.