I’ve nearly finished them, I promise!!

This bee was one I didn’t plan to buy at the Knitting and Stitching Show, it was a pre-printed design by Anne Brooke of Hanne-made. It was little and pretty and I couldn’t resist it!

It was a fairly quick stitch too. I used variegated threads for everything apart from the wings, all DMC apart from the gold for the bumblebee which is a colourworks one left over from the bee sampler.

I stitched the bees body with long and short stitch, at first I did the outline of the wings in a fine chain stitch but it was just too heavy so I unpicked it and just used stem stitch. The green on the allium is all stem stitch too with French knots for the flowers.

If anyone fancies a stitch-a-long I’m joining both of Anne’s SALs, a weekly one and a monthly one. One of them is to stitch on a garment and I can’t remember what the other one is meant to be but I’m going to put them all in a book, or that’s my plan at the moment. Anne’s style is very much slow stitching, she’ll give us a word or an idea and some ideas and we can then run with them however we want, I did her SAL a few years back, 2021 I think, it did help me to be less afraid of raw edges in embroidery!!