Summer Zipper Done

Just a quick post today to show you my stitched piece I finished recently - Bent Creek Summer Zipper.  I started stitching this piece in early July while on vacation and signed my name to it on July 31st.  It must be some sort of record for me to actually start and finish a stitched piece in the same month.  Usually it's not in the same year!  And, I am diligent about "signing" my stitched pieces, even though I am still completely lax on getting my quilts labeled.  The stitched pieces are so much easier to sign than doing a quilt label, but that's no excuse.

Here's the stitched piece. 

The reason it's named Summer Zipper is because these kits come in cute little zipper bags and there was one for each season.  So far I've stitched Autumn and Summer.  The bags are great!  They are super sturdy.  This designer had another Zipper series where the bags were long and skinny like pencil cases and I've been using one of those bags forever as my take along sewing kit with needles, scissors, seam ripper, etc.  It's perfect and is still holding up all these years. 

I posted about one of the other Zipper pieces back in December in one of my first blog posts.  Since most of you weren't around then, here is that piece again.  It was called Scared Crow Zipper and it was super fun to stitch.

And here's your Sassy fix for the day.  She looks innocent in this picture, but what she's really doing is waiting for us to leave so she can pull the clothes down that are hanging on the drying rack.  We now either need to lock her up or lock the clothes up while they are drying.  Little holes from kitty nails in clothes are not a good thing.