That was the last mini hat I knitted for my 'first' batch. I handed in the hats yesterday and said I'd knit some more for the Age Charity.
I decided to make a bee hat as a reminder to myself of one of my main achievements this year : saving a bee.
I found a bumble bee in a very dormant state inside the house and decided that it had run out of energy and needed something sweet fast - I'd read about this and what to do so I was convinced that was the right course of action.
I put some honey on a small plate and put it on a window sill outside. I put the the bee on the plate near the honey:
I even took a short video of the bee but haven’t uploaded it.
At the time, @tinygalaxy wrote a post about this ‘nature adventure’.
It was very interesting to see its proboscis in action.
The process seemed to revive the bee after a moment, so I went back indoors to just let it be 😄. Later on I found the plate without the bee on it - and no honey left (!).
The rogue gallery above was again fun to make - remember it’s just one hat and me having fun trying out different sizes of googly eyes.
The stitch I used is called ‘bee hive’ in Spanish and ‘honeycomb stitch’ in English. I watched this video tutorial as I couldn’t remember some of the details. It isn’t an easy stitch to unravel.
I endeavoured to make a bee looking pom-pom and I will continue to improve on the shape. I later found a clear tutorial so I will use it next time.
all work by @cryptocariad
awww... that's quite literally such a sweet thing to do...
save the bumblebee!
and that honeycomb stitch has a really nice texture to it, too!
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I've got to confess I was quite nervous to start with as I've never been stung by a bee, @googlyeyes - I was partly hoping to make friends with the bees this way 😄
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ah... a little bee-sting only hurts a little... nothing to be too scared of :D
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Great honey bee rescue story and nice commemorative mini hat :)
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It's quite sad to see those huge bumble bees lifeless on the ground, @steven-patrick. There are lots of 'wild bees' around in the season so this one just needed some help :D
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Such a cute hat! And great story about the bee! Love those eyes! :)
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I'm tempting to make something else with the honeycomb stitch, @jamethiel, but I find it quite hard to unravel. I know some knitters use 'life lines' on their knitting, but I guess it would be a bit over the top to do that with this stitch as it's not 'lace'.
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A scarf in that stitch would be pretty, or one with a section of the stitch running up the middle... :)
I have never used a life line, will have to check out that option. :)
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Thank you for the suggestions, @jamethiel :D
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Thank you for caring about one of God's truly amazing creatures.
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It was amazing to see it recover, fiberfrau :D
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