Hanging Honey Bee by Jan O'Loughlin

Hanging Honey Bee

Knitting
DK (11 wpi) ?
US 3 - 3.25 mm
US 5 - 3.75 mm
48 - 50 yards (44 - 46 m)
One size only
English
This pattern is available for AU$3.50 AUD
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Pattern to make you own Hand Knitted Bee mobile, that is cute, but not too cute. Semi Realistic bee with big shiny eyes, antennae, a pair of wings, all 6 legs and of course, the stripes. The bee is around 24cm (9.5”) long.

The pattern is 8 pages long and contains lots of photos and all instructions to help you make one bee or a hive full!

You will need silver or grey yarn DK yarn for eyes (10m approx)
Plain Black DK yarn (head, Antennae and legs), (35m approx)
Small quantity of black fuzzy yarn (detail on thorax), 5m approx)
Moda Vera Ione (double strand of gold), (30m approx)
Moda Vera Ione (double strand of black) (16m approx)
Crochet yarn in translucent synthetic (1/3 ball approx)

Florist wire 22 ga in black or brown
Floris wire 22 ga white

This bee is also available as a kit while yarn stocks remain. Please visit JoLArts on Etsy.