Bee Buffet and a Little Bee Freebie

 Great Grandma Annie's buffet is filled to the brim with late summer goodness. 

There are chickens.

And trays with doileys and stitches galore. Lots of bees are buzzing about! 

Aunt Bea's Summer Home, Mary's Basket  Strawberry Pinkeep,  Bee Berry , Itty Bitty Bee Pinkeep, and a darling bee stitch gifted to me from dear Barbara ❤

Little skeps - stitched and woven. 

Hive Sweet Hive and Mini Bee Sampler  

Buzz Buzz . More Bees! 

Buzz Buzz  and  Little Bees

Baskets and bowls are perfect to wrangle those stitches in. 

Yep! the buffet is filled to the brim! 

There is Dot Dot's old brass scales that has been on the buffet nigh 50+ years, and her old red kerosene lamp. Such sweet memories. 

 

And the backdrop- A $2. 00 quilt. Can't beat that with a stick!😁 

A little stitch just for you. 

Little Bees!

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If you are interested in stitching this piece,  just grab , the images. For printing tips, refer to the post Tips for Printing which has loads of tips from my sweet friends. 

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OOOPS/ CORRECTION: In the directions on the floss list, I listed DMC 646 with the symbol U. There is NO Symbol U in the chart, but 646 IS USED FOR THE LONG STITCHES along the bees' in flight path. 

FLOSS  : SYMBOL  MOTIF:

DMC 420 (Y) Bee     

DMC 543 ( W) Bee Wings     

DMC 646 ( ) Long stitches for bees' flying path

DMC 829 (O) Wording

DMC 838 (X) Border

DMC 3371 ( • )  Bees

Country Cottage Needleworks " Bumblebee" 

Thank you for dropping by for the sweet Saturday visit. The bees will be buzzing into their bins as pumpkins, squirrels and all things fall take their place. 

Enjoy your day.

As Always...

Happy  Stitching and Quilting, y'all

Melisa 

"The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.  "- Saint John Chyrsostom

Hugs and Stitches!!!!🤗🧵❤

Dedicated to my dear sister, Amy 

 I love and miss you so much.. Love you , Amo. 

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Bee Haven Cottage

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Moving Right Along and Bee the Sunshine Freebie- A Sunflower / Bee Freebie

 Sweet Melva's SAL is moving right along, and I am enjoying every minute of it! 

Welcome , Honey Pies and Happy Happy Friday!  I am so very grateful that you dropped by for a visit. You truly brighten my day.

 

Aunt Bea's Summer Home

After much debate, I decided to use red as the main color in the chains. 

I believe I have mentioned a gazillion times my love affair with the color red! 😁❤

Anywhooo... I found some red Daisy fabric in the quilt room ,and it was not long before I went to town cutting 2 1/2" strips and blocks. Cut! Snip! Cut!

Soon a sample block or two was made.  Sew! Sew! Sew! 

Hmmm.... I am quite pleased. 🤗

Melva's Schedule for Lala's Irish Chain SAL: 

Week 1 Cutting Instructions and Introduction: 

Week 2 Setting Blocks with Cornerstones

Week 3 Frame Setting the Blocks. 

Week 4 Patchwork Set 1

Week 5 Patchwork Set 2

Week 6  5 x 5 Patchwork Blocks

Week 7 Layout and Top

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Week 9 Sandwich and Quilt

Yee Haw! I have a finish! Autumn Beginnings  which I shared last week is all stitched up! Yesterday I made it into a pin pillow, stuffed it to the gills with polyfil  and trimmed it with some thrifted yarn. Wahlah! Ready for display.

UPDATE: These are the DMC  floss colors that I used for "Autumn Beginnings"  . 

FLOSS  : SYMBOL  MOTIF:

       DMC 610 ( U and T)       Border and pumpkin stem

DMC  782 ( Y)  Sunflower

DMC 3781 ( • )  Sunflower center

DMC 301 ( O) Pumpkin

DMC 919 (X) Pumpkin lines

DMC 730 ( G) Sunflowers stem and pumpkin leaf

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Since I was on a roll, I finished Bee the Sunshine!  A new little bee stitch to add to my ever growing collection. Sigh. 🤗

Bee the Sunshine was stitched on 14 count coffee/ tea dyed Aida using just a few of my favorite DMC floss colors including: DMC 543, 731, 781, 783, 829, 838, 975, and 3371.

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If you are interested in stitching this piece,  just grab , the images. For printing tips, refer to the post Tips for Printing which has loads of tips from my sweet friends. 

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Bee the Sunshine and in the background is Heart in Hand's "Pocket Round Bee" 

Have you visited the Herrschners website? They have lots of cute freebies. I was perusing their freebies the other night . "Sew" much cuteness!  

I know that Brenda at Songbird Designs is working on Herrschners Christmas Plastic Canvas Barn- it is not a freebie but is as cute as a button. Perfect for a Farmyard Christmas theme. 

Alrighty, it is time for me to get busy! 

The Pretty in Peach Butterfly quilt is calling my name. I will be finishing the hand quilting on the blocks before moving on to the borders. 

Enjoy your weekend, Sweethearts! And do a little jig- It's Friday! Hee! Hee! 

As Always...

Happy  Stitching and Quilting, y'all

Melisa

"Baby steps count too as long as you are moving forward.  "- Chris Gardner

Hugs and Stitches!!!!🤗🧵❤

Dedicated to my dear sister, Amy . My heart aches as the hours tick to 5 years ago.  

 I love and miss you so much.. Love you , Amo. ❤

🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

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Bee Haven Cottage- A House Freebie

 A very lovely Tuesday morning to you, sweet friends.

Is your day off to a delightful start? I sure hope so. What do you have planned today? Anything fun or is it going to be one of those relaxing pj kinda day? Hee! Hee! 

I spent the day in my pjs yesterday sewing up a storm. Eeeh! It was wonderful!  It had been a little over a week since I had worked at my machine so I was excited as all get out. I will show you what I worked on in a later post. 

Thank you so much for all of the sweet well wishes. I have had two mishaps over the last few weeks which left me with broken ribs, but the last one was a fall down some slippery , wet camper steps after a rain. So do be careful when you go out on rainy days.  I think getting up and moving around is doing wonders. It is hard for me to sit and relax. I know some of you are the same way. 

The other day I picked up a "new to me" vintage cookbook published in 1979. Hmmm...🤔 When did 1979 become vintage? LOL. Is it? Maybe not.

 Anywhoo... the Joy with Honey cookbook is choked full of recipes that include honey. And it has the most adorable illustrations. 

The bee illustrations in the book were created by Vicki Dorsey

Speaking of honey... Let me show you my latest house finish. 

It is called Bee Haven Cottage. I finished stuffing it and stitching the seams closed last week. 

 I think it is sweet as ooey gooey , yummy to the tummy honey! 🍯Well maybe not that sweet, but sweet nonetheless. 😀

I think it is a perfect addition to my bee collection. What do you think? 

Bee Haven Cottage is surrounded by tall and small bee skeps and there is even one on the roof. 

But watch out for the ginormous bees! Yikes! I wouldn't want to be stung by one of those would you. 😀  Buzz! Buzz! 

 

Bee Haven Cottage was stitched using 12 DMC floss colors which includes: 

DMC 353, 414, 610, 730, 780, 781, 783, 844, 948, 3722, 3857, and 3859. 

I am sorry. I got snap happy on taking photos of Bee Haven Cottage. LOL

Since we are talking about colors , let me break down where the floss colors are located. 

🧵BORDER/ VINE: DMC colors 730, 353 and 3722

 🧵 GRASS: 730

🧵BEE SKEPS: 610 ( the bench) 780, 781, 783, and 844

🧵BRICKWORK: 3857, 3859

🧵WINDOWS: 948, 844

🧵DOOR: 948, 610

🧵ROOF: 414, 844

🧵BEES: 783, 844, 948

🧵FLOWERS: 948, 610

🧵PATHWAY: 414

Of course, you could use any colors that your sweet heart desires if you decided to stitch Bee Haven Cottage. 

Bee Haven Cottage was stitched on 14 count Coffee/ tea dyed Aida that I dyed myself. Using 14 count Aida, it measures around 5 1/8" x 5 5/8"  with a Design size of 71 x 78. 

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If you are interested in stitching this piece,  just grab , the images. For printing tips, refer to the post Tips for Printing which has loads of tips from my sweet friends. 

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Another recipe from the Joy with Honey. I will be trying this Five Bean Salad recipe at our next get together. 

Now that Bee Haven Cottage is fully finished. I need to FFO Sunflower Haven that I showed sneak peeks of a few weeks ago. 

Sunflower Haven is being stitched on 14 count coffee/ tea dyed Aida. 

Plus I have started a new fall house.  It seems like I am slowly working through my lack of mojo. I guess it takes just a small spark to get the wheels turning again.  We shall see if this is it. 

I best get off here before I become a chatterbox. I know you have places to go and people to meet. So I wish you a BEEAUTIFUL DAY!  Love ya'! 

As Always...

Happy  Stitching and Quilting, y'all

Melisa 

"Be your own kind of beautiful.  "- 

Hugs and Stitches!!!!🤗🧵❤

Dedicated to my dear sister, Amy 

 I love and miss you so much.. Love you , Amo. 

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I hope to post a Bee Hutch Tour sometime this week. So I hope you will drop back by for a Country Clutter tour.