This is a gift I’m making for my mom. She’s really into bees but I guess you could see that for yourself.
It’s in the early planning stages, obviously. There are many, many, many mistakes. I wasn’t pleased with the beehive on a branch band until the very bottom. And some of the bees are very weird.
But I couldn’t tell how my charted designs would look until I stitched them up so this is a learning process.
It’ll eventually take the form of a sampler, with bands of repeating motifs. I’m also going to be using bands of flowers from blackwork books.
(I can’t edit the pictures of my charted designs so when I can figure that out I’ll update this post.)
Hi,
Bee Sampler!!! Hmm.. great idea.Is this a kit? or are you charting your own design?
Thanks for leaving a comment at my blog and letting me know about you.
Deepa
I’m charting my own designs. It’s slow going. I’m just trying to come up with interesting motifs but my incredible literalness is working against me. As my boyfriend said, “It doesn’t have to be to scale.”
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