Saturday, June 11, 2011
A Bee For Your Pleasure and Other Things Which Fly
Some folks left comments requesting further "Bee Stitches".
So here you are!
Design - "Saturday Sampler #4 - Furnished with Bees"
Designer - The Sampler Girl
Fabric - 28 cnt Wichelt Hazelnut Country French linen
Fibers - Crescent Colours - Olive Branch, Fools Gold, Tyler Boy Blue
Victoria Clayton Silk - Brown Ale
The Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Raven
Started - 9 March 2009
Completed - 30 March 2009
Framed - August 2010
This was a joy to stitch. I loved the effect the variegated floss Tyler Boy Blue created with the verse. The blue mat picks up the color as well.
Our Nature Post today is "For the Birds".
I bought a new suet feeder to try and keep out the starlings. They flock the feeder and can eat a brick of suet in a day. So this is the new contraption. It looks rather like a jail cell, but the Downy Woodpeckers have figured out how to use it and don't seem bother by it - and the suet is lasting much longer.
I also bought a peanut feeder and the Scrub Jays are thrilled.
Peanuts appear to be one thing the Band-Tailed Pigeons do not eat!
Nor for that matter do the Hummingbirds!
