Bee Book SAL

It’s time for my three weekly update on my fabric book about bees. Last time I shared my progress I was doing nicely with the second half of my bee cross-stitch. This was a kit I bought at a destash sale and I’m using it to make two pages for my book about bees.

Well I’ve now finished this piece, there was meant to be the word ‘bumble-bee’ on the far right hand side but I decided to leave it off as the set of images is about hives and honey, bumble bees don’t live in a hive, they make a nest. I don’t think they make honey either as only the queen survives over winter so they don’t need the honey stocks to feed on. Anyway, here’s my finished piece…

I’m now stitching a set of three bumblebees, I kept seeing this pattern on instagram and having done a google image search I managed to track down the designer on Etsy. I had told myself that I had enough cross-stitch pieces for the book but I particularly like this one as it has three different types of bumble bee and gives their Latin names too. It’s designed by FloReen Studio.

I’ve almost finished the first one…

…as you can see I just need to finish back-stitching the wing. I need to do a bit of calculating before I start the second bee, the design is portrait shape, whereas I want it either square or landscape. I thought I’d move the second bee across a bit so I can move the top bee down a bit.

I only realised today that the big bumble bee I’ve just stitched is actually the same design as the one I made into cross-stitch smalls, one of which is going to be used in the book! I’ll mount it differently so it’s not too obvious.

After these bees I’ve a whitework bee, a blackwork bee and an embroidered bee to do, then I will start making the pages.

Please visit the other blogs that are also taking part in this SAL. There are so many different projects to enjoy. The participants live all over the world so you may need to allow for time differences. We’re posting today at local time. Click the links to their blogs below and see what they’re up to.

Avis, Claire, Gun, Christina, Kathy, Jackie,

Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Sharon, Daisy, Cathie,

Linda, MaryMargaret, Cindy, Helen

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I live in a busy market town in Yorkshire with my husband, kids, dogs and chickens. I love trying new crafts, rediscovering old ones, gardening, walking...anything creative really I started this blog after my New Year resolution worked so well. My resolution (the first one I've ever kept!) was to post a photograph of my garden on Facebook every day. My hope was that I would then see what was good in the garden and not just weeds and work, which was my tendency. The unexpected side-effect was that I have enjoyed many more hours in the garden. I am hoping that 'The Crafty Creek' will have the same effect. Happy creating!

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