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February 19
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For my project, I designed a stitchery I'm calling "Filling the Hive." As you can tell by the name, bees are my choice of winged beings. The stitchery measures 8" x 8" so it can be printed out on your home printer. I chose to print it on this product rather than transfer it to my fabric via another method:
After printing on the Stick 'n Stitch, you literally stick it on top of your fabric and then stitch right through it. Then, you wash it off by soaking in warm water. For more complicated designs, I find this easier than other methods of transferring patterns to fabric. I used a 12" embroidery hoop and a 14" square piece of unbleached muslin.
Anyway, here's the stitchery design:
All stitching is done with a back stitch, except for running stitch on the bee flight trails, and french knots on the end of the antenna.
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After I stitched it up, it made it into a mini-quilt/wall hanging. My finished piece measures approximately 15" square. I hand quilted the piece with embroidery floss.
If you'd like to stitch this up yourself, click here for the pattern!
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Cute project and thanks for the pattern
ReplyDeleteBeautiful ♥ and thanks for the pattern
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet pattern - thanks! And thank you for the product recommend - I'm always on the lookout for labor saving tricks.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a sweet piece. I do hand stitching maybe once or twice a year. I believe your piece will be my starting point for 2019. Thanks so much for the pattern.
ReplyDeleteThis is so adorable and your stitching is amazing as always! I love the little details in it...a perfect "wing" piece to inspire us. I have never used SticknStitch but it looks like my kind of product. I love things that can be printed off to make our sewing life easier. Thanks for hopping with us!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the info about the stick n Stitch. I love Bees, this is a nice little pattern.... would love to make a little hanging like this one as well to compliment my project being revealed on the 21st. Stay blessed and thanks for sharing your pattern!
ReplyDeleteWell that is a product I have not heard of before. But I have a laser printer and usually it's only ink jet printers that work with printing anything other than paper. The bees are just darling.
ReplyDeleteSo cute! Definitely a future project. Thanks for the pattern.
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful, makes me long for spring even more.For the love of geese
ReplyDeleteSuch a cute wall hanging. Thanks for the tip about the Stick 'n Stitch.
ReplyDeleteWow! I like the "Stick and stitch" product! So cool. Your project is so beautiful and amazing! Enjoy your day! :-) :-) angielovesgary2 atgmail dotcom
ReplyDeleteI love the mini quilt. Your stitching is beautiful and so is the design.Thank you for sharing today.
ReplyDeleteThat is one nice stitching project - love the little bees!
ReplyDeleteLove the bees and the new to me technique. I will have to look up that paper soemtime.
ReplyDeleteVery cute design. The bees are sew sweet. Thank you for sharing in the hop, Elizabeth ... :-) Pat
ReplyDeleteNo bumbling around for you. This bee design was a wonderful addition to the Show Your Wings Blog Hop!!
ReplyDeleteWow, this is so sweet. Great for this hop.
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I love the buzzing bees. Thanks for the pattern, too. I just saw on The Zoo how the Bronx Zoo has to leave 100 pounds of honey in a hive to sustain the bees throughout the winter. Any extra the zoo keepers share with other animals such as bears. I just saw this on an episode on Sunday night and now this - how appropriate. Bees are very important to our environment. I think we take many of the things that fly for granted. Thanks for sharing, Elizabeth.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet little project. Your stitching is lovely. Suze is right that we need to keep mindful of bees in our environment. Well don!
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet wall hanging! I participated in the Save the Bees sew along last year when they had some very similar blocks. Thanks for sharing. MelvaLovesScraps(at)NolanQualityCustoms(dot)com
ReplyDeleteWhat a pretty mini. Love the bees. Thanks for sharing your process and the pattern. These sheet make easy work of transferring the pattern for sure.
ReplyDeleteSuch a sweet wallhanging. I love bees too.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. I might make some time to stitch it.
ReplyDeleteWhat a delightful stitchery. And thank you so much for the pattern. I will prepare it for myself and my 11 year old granddaughter who is becoming quite good at embroidery. We will be stitching together.
ReplyDeleteSo cute. Love bee's.
ReplyDeleteSuch a sweet stitchery. Hoping it won't be long before we start seeing these little guys again. I'm over the winter stuff! LOL!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt is a very sweet piece and your stitching is beautiful!! Love the running stitch on the bee flight trails.
ReplyDelete-Soma
Thank you for sharing your pattern. This will be perfect for a label, for a quilt I am working on. 🐝🐝🌼🌼🌻🌻
ReplyDeleteThis stitched piece is so darn cute!
ReplyDeleteVery cute!! I can't resist bees. Thanks so much for the pattern.
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