It’s time for a new project for my three weekly SAL posts. This is a cross-stitch I actually started a couple of months back but never got round to posting about it. It’s for another fabric book! This time the book is about bees.
Over the years I’ve done quite a few little cross-stitches of bees, some have been made into mini cushions, some are still in my ‘finished but not made up’ box. I decided some time last year to collate them all together in a bee book, maybe with some interesting facts about bees scattered around too. Here’s a few of my bees…
I’m planning to do some that aren’t cross-stitch too, but at the moment I’m half way through a cross-stitch bumble bee. I originally thought I might put this on the cover of the book, however I’ve decided there’s too much work involved in this to put it on the outside!! It’s from a kit I think I bought from a destash site. I’m not stitching it all together, I’m breaking it up into the four smaller pictures…
I’m doing the main bee picture first, that is going to determine the size of the book. This has been my handbag sewing for the last couple of months, so I’ve stitched it in dentist and physio waiting rooms, coffee shops, I also stitch it whilst having my morning coffee, watching TV at the end of the evening…you get the drift, it’s my pick up and sew when I’ve got 10 minutes to spare.
As you can see I’ve got most of the cross-stitch done, but then I need to do all the back-stitch…and there’s a lot of back-stitch. I kept thinking I’ll do it as I go along, but then I ‘ll just do this bit first, then that bit!
I’ve also changed the word at the bottom. Whilst flowers worked in the picture as a whole, I didn’t want it for the book, especially when I was thinking of using it for the cover. As you can see I’ve changed it to Bombus which is the Latin for the bumblebee family.
Hopefully in three weeks time I might be on to the back-stitching.
This SAL is organised by Avis from Stitching by the SEA, please follow the links to see what everyone else has been stitching.
Avis, Claire, Gun, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Jackie,
Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Sharon, Daisy, Cathie,
Linda, MaryMargaret, Cindy, Helen
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Besutiful. It is so apt that you plan to make a book of bee stitchings.
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I am looking forward to seeing the pages for your Bee Book. I really like what you are currently working on. All of other bee crafts you have completed are very pretty. I especially like the pillow with the bees in the lavender.
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Love bees and the idea of a new book is very brave!
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lovely design and looking forward to your progress on it! I too have many “finished but in a box” cross stitch 😂 can’t help myself I prefer making than the end result
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I love the name change you did for this 🙂 Loving this project!
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That is a gorgeous piece, and to break it up is genius!
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So cute with all the bumblebees!
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You find the prettiest projects.They all look so lovely.
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The design will be so much better split up into separate projects/pages. We haven’t had many bees or hovvies in the garden this year. Maybe it’s been too cold or wet for them?
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impressive and original
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So Lovely! Looking forward to seeing your bee book progress.
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I love these pieces — and your bee book sounds delightful!
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This looks a really pretty stitch
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