The PatternBee bonus transfer for March is here! And if the little beehive motif looks familiar that's because it's derived from Vogart #293 for "busy bees" aka Bee Smart. I took liberties with this cute design; enlarged it a bit, added more flowers and a tag line. Then I stamped the design onto a premade cotton dish towel, a nice flour sack variety, and got out my needle and colorful threads.
Once done, I decided a fabric border would look nice. I couldn't make up my mind between red or black gingham. They both work well here, I think. Eventually I went for the black and white. I used double fold extra wide quilt binding by Wright's. It makes a nice 7/8" border. But you could use any cotton fabric in any width for this. I just happened to have some left-over pieces from a quilt I bound a few years back.
I used a machine blanket-stitch along the top edge to stitch it down and finish it off. If you'd like to see how I do my fabric borders we must travel back in time...back to November 1, 2008. That blog post is under the title of 'Kitchen Goodness' or go HERE. You'll find it after the giant mouth-watering homemade peanut butter cup!
BTW, the 'Give Thanks' towel design featured in that tutorial still has the link to the free PDF pattern if you want to download it. Also, if you have been reading this blog since the beginning and you're feeling nostalgic (or just curious), there's another link to the very first Dollhouse Bakery in the Typepad gallery format, before we had Flickr, Pinterest and Instagram. My goodness how things have changed.
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