Hi everyone. Happy July 2! Yesterday the crazy heat arrived to New Hampshire. 😧 I'm going to miss the beautiful weather we'd been having.
I have a few things to share on my post including stopping by Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog for Second on the Second. I also want to mention the last couple of days were busy, so I am once again going to apologize if I missed any of your blog posts.
OK, I promise not to hyper focus on bees every post,😏, but the other day David over at Travels with Birds made an important point in a comment on one of my recent honeybee posts. Since many of you enjoy a bit of bee info, I thought I would take a moment to share the general gist. (And then I won't keep going on about bees...well maybe I won't. )😉
Honey bees do help with pollination, and they are important, however, sometimes people get so wrapped up thinking honeybees can save our food supply that they forget about native bees. Native bees are the various species really in trouble. In fact, some of our foods cannot be pollinated by honey bees. Take tomatoes.
Honey bees evolved in Europe and Asia, and some foods, like tomatoes, that evolved in North or South America, evolved without the help of honey bees. Their flowers are not accessible to honeybees because the 2 species didn't evolve together and honeybees can't get to the pollen. The only ones that can do this are native pollinators. As native bees disappear, so might those foods they pollinate. Therefore it is important to not to do big whole lawn sprays for insects ( all insects breath the same way, so if you spray say for mosquitoes, it can effect bees) and to remember wild bees need habitat to live in. I'm not trying to be the bee patrol, just passing on some information. 😁
Today's main topic of my post is for Second on the Second over at Altered Book Lovers Blog. I want to share some fabric art that I posted back in 2015 to go along with Halle's fabrictrim/sewing themed challenge this month at AJJ. . Here's my original post. More Quilting.
I had a large piece of canvas that I painted, and then I did some stitching on it. Here's a few close ups.
3 comments:
Interesting info about native bees. I hadn't thought about that.
Your arty canvas looks fun. I hope you find it again, then you can back it or do whatever you never got round to at the time.
Happy Thursday,
Lisca
Oh, I love all the bee info! But my Singer... won´t say is retired but I have no talent for sewing...
Anyways, have a great Thursday!
I was sure I left you a comment, but when I came back to answer your question, I don't see it. I was so glad you shared the bee info. I thought they were ALL endangered. Thanks for showing what a milkweed flower should look like. Maybe some day mine will flower.
I love your second look. It's obvious it's a first look for me. I love the stitching. You and Halle are REAL seamstresses. I sew! This is a wonderful, clever, colorful canvas. Thanks for sharing it with us as your Second look on the 2nd.
You asked what I use the cabinet for now. If you look at the first photo in the 2nd look post, on the left side under the dresses, you will see part of it behind my die cutter before I moved the die cutter to the dresser. I use it for storage of odds and ends that I want to keep handy.
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