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.

September, So Happy to See You

It's day 4 of the See You in September Blog Hop

and

welcome to my stop in the hop.

Shari over at Living With Purpose has kept this blog hop organized and has been a great cheerleader.

Thank you Shari!

Thank you Madame Samm
at

Sew We Quilt

for dreaming of this wonderful place 

where quilters can sew and show!

For this hop, participants are to show 3 projects from the summer with one of those projects using 

Riley Blake Designs gingham.

September is a special month here in the sticks.

DH and I were married in September and we both celebrate birthdays.
In fact, today is my duck whisperer's (hubby) birthday.

We haven't been able to get away all summer, so to celebrate September,

 we loaded my three projects for the hop

into the car and spent the weekend in Teller County, Colorado 

taking pictures, shopping, relaxing, sightseeing, and eating great food.

The apron, above, was a vintage find during our trip.

(posted here)

This is where most of the photos were shot for this hop.   A beautiful fishing lake surrounded with mountains and lots of hiking trails.

I warn you, this post is very picture heavy!

Sorry.  I just have been waiting all summer to hop.

But this hop is all about what I did over the summer.

I tackled an attic window quilt to start the summer.  I've always wanted to make one and there is a spot in our cabin that is perfect to hang this.

The pattern is my own, put together by looking at other attic window quilts on the Internet.

I had the duck panel (South Seas First Light Panel by Austin Jackson)

 and figured out how to cut out 2 inch strips without loosing too much of the duck scene.

I had this quilt finished in time to enter it in our local fair.

The judge liked it enough for a blue ribbon  and particularly liked the wood grain free motion quilting

I did on the outside border.  I smiled for a week.

If you click on the non polaroid pictures above, I think you will see the quilting better.

Some of the first craft projects I conquered in middle school and high school were counted cross stitch.  My mom still has a few of them.  

I started this project and enjoyed a little summer stitching out on the porch.

Once this little jar was stitched

it became part of a nested churn dash block.

And then the block became a sweet 16" pillow with RBD gingham.

I had just enough of a pre cut strip of RBD small yellow gingham to make the first churn dash block.

The second churn dash, backing, and binding are RBD medium gingham in aqua.

I cut the binding on the bias for a different look at gingham.

But, my super sweet cross stitch pillow isn't my RBD gingham project.

(well it is, but it isn't the main one..lol)

Molly is always there to assist me.  

She was right there to work on a bridal shower gift for "Mini Me."

Stop reading right here, Trista!!

(I want it to be a surprise)

*wink*

My daughter, Trista, is going to be married in October and there is a shower for her in 2 weeks.

This throw (60" x 72") will be part of a gift for her and I am finished ahead of time (for a change).

(That's Pikes Peak in the background)

I used 4 charm packs of RBD large gingham to make the blocks. 

Each charm was bordered with Kona white to form the blocks.

Setting the blocks on point was a first for me and I can't wait to try it again.

It makes the quilt look more complicated than it is. :)

It was about to rain in this picture.  The purple looks so much darker and the wind was whipping it around.

Trista loves purple, so I used Kona solid for the back.  The inside border is also Kona solid and I chose a green because her wedding colors are purple with a touch of green.

I made a swirly flower pattern in free motion for the quilting and a scalloped edge seemed right for this quilt.

Trista will love this.

The lake was so reflective of the mountains in this photo, I had to show it.

And there you have it, my summer in a nutshell AKA blog post.

But, wait, you should sign up for my giveaway before you leave.

This summer there was a huge shop hop.

The Row by Row Experience was a chance to get free patterns from local participating quilt shops.  Many of the shops carried the Fabric Plates from Zebra Patterns 

and 

as a thank you 

I have one to give away.

UPDATE:  giveaway is over.  

Linda is the winner

 Linda said...

Carla, you outdid yourself! Everything you made is gorgeous! I love the idea of putting a panel behind the attic windows! Wow!

 Thank you, Linda.  You always have the best things to say and you blow me away with your talent.

To win this fabric license plate, just leave a comment.

ANYONE can win, although it does say QUILTING USA.

And

If you follow this blog,

as a thank you,

leave a second comment telling me you do.

Now, don't be a "no-reply" commenter.  ok?

You can't win if I can't e-mail you.

I will choose a random winner at the end of the blog hop.

That's September 16th.

Be sure to visit my hop mates today!

Leave them comments and make their day!

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Thanks for visiting.

Happy Birthday, to my wonderful hubby.