Aunt Mariah's Autumn Saltbox

Well a very Happy Tuesday to you. Ya'll come on in! We have work to do . We have kitties to wrangle and pumpkins to pick!

But first off, I pulled out my orange vintage Fire King mugs for fall. I just have 3 mugs, but I consider it a growing collection.

So grab you a cup of whatever delights you. I will have peach mango green tea in mine. Mr. Pinker has got me hooked on it. It is delicious.

Ok now to my newest saltbox. It is loaded down with pumpkins and some overzealous kitty cats.

Last week , I showed you a sneak peek of my saltbox.

I finally finished it over the weekend. But I did have some troubles. I just could not settle on a house color. My fabric which is 14 count tea/ coffee dyed was quite dark which I adore, but I was having trouble finding the colors that I really wanted that would look good with the fabric.

Finally I settled on DMC 435 ( Very Light Brown) and 975 (Dark Golden Brown) . I would love to hear what colors you would think would look good with the dark fabric and all of the pumpkins.

In the yard is a grand pumpkin patch. I was inspired by my daughter's wee volunteer pumpkin patch that sprang up from last year's pumpkins that the kiddos carved. The grandbabies have certainly enjoyed watching the pumpkins grow.

Oh, did you notice all of the climbing cats . Well there are just 2 climbing ,but I was reminiscing about my sweet dearly departed Kat when I stitched these little kitties.

Kat rarely stepped off the porch and sometimes would climb up to the windows and peek in. Do you think we should wrangle these kitties up or let them be?

I named this saltbox after my dear Great Aunt Mariah . She was the quilter in the family and she made sure that each of her nieces received a quilt top. Aunt Mariah was a bachelorette ( I refuse to say Old Maid) ; it wasn't until she was in her 70's that she finally decided to get married. 💑

If you would like to stitch Aunt Mariah's, please check out the links to the jpg's below. The colored chart may be hard to read and the colors do not show well. I am so sorry about that.

Many of you know , but I always like to leave this little disclaimer.

I stitch my little designs for fun and to decorate my home. I feel very blessed by this community and love sharing my little charts, but I am not a professional designer. And I do not have professional software. Thank you for understanding that I have to put each page on separate links because of the devices I use. I apologize for that. These are images of the chart or JPG s and not downloads. I am always grateful for your kind encouragement , your visits, and for stitching my little designs.

Click here for Instructions jpg.

Click here for Colored Chart jpg.

Click here for Black/ White jpg.

I did not include photos of the charts this time . The reason is because there is a site that is posting my blog writings and photos of my saltboxes on their site for others to read without permission which bypasses readers to my blog all together. I am not sure what to think about that. If you click on the links you will find the charts. I may post photos of them after I mull the situation over more. Thank you for understanding.

I am so delighted that you stopped by to see my latest saltbox. Guess what ? I have already started another one. Can one have too many saltboxes? Just wondering. Lol.