Busy As A Bee

  This has been the year of the bee in my yard. Since I haven't been able to do the weeding I usually do each year I have been blessed with many more flowers than usual in my beds. And how does that make sense? Because I had been pulling out flowers that I thought were weeds, you silly wabbit!! Thus, more flowers-more bees.

But seriously I have been busy as a little bee myself lately.

Actually as busy as three bees!

I have been painstakingly copying my old antique patterns.

Thirty years ago I bought a box full of antique patterns in a small rural Mo town.

The patterns date from 1929-1950's. They were all mailed to the same woman.

Miss Delta C. Wilson of Milton, Iowa

I like that name Delta. The only other Delta I've ever heard of was

"Delta Dawn". My Delta wore a size 40. I know this because there were a few

dress and apron patterns besides all the sewing patterns. The box is full of

embroidery patterns of all kinds: t-towels, pillowcase edgings, dress scarves,

aprons, etc, Really too many to name. And all kinds of stuffed animal patterns.

Quilt patterns, cut-work, lawn ornaments, rugs, tablecloths, cross-stitch pictures

Anyway, a real treasure trove to me. So now I'm finally copying them. They were

originally iron-on ink. But not so much now! They had many tears in the folds.

I feel I finally have enough to open my etsy shop soon. The thing I'm really excited

about is that they are sent PDF so a person can start on their project right away.

With any good luck I may have a shop sometime next week.

So that's my busy bee story. Now what have you been buzzing around working on?