The Busy Bee's

Eyelet Blessing Dress Our Mom is very talented and she makes blessing dresses for all granddaughters and great granddaughters.   ...

Matching Aprons and Hot Pads Apron link to instructions - http://www.thebusybhive.blogspot.com/2012/09/aprons-for-your-little-busy-baker...

Finished Hot Pads  These hot pads are fun project.  All fabrics were cut 8 inches and the batting was cut 7 1/2 inches.  For the ass...

These aprons are very easy to make. I folded the fabric in thirds the length of the bolt ~ making 3 aprons. Cut the length you want the...

We have posted this pattern for hot pads before see this post for instructions:  http://thebusybhive.blogspot.com/2012/07/hot-pads.html   W...

 For these pillowcases I cut the accent piece (white) 9 inches and folded it in half and pressed it. The pipping piece I cut 2 inches an...

This is made off the idea of the bucketter's in the hardware store.  This one is filled with plastic tools for the little guys, but it ...

Watch those sales!  Summer will be winding down in no time at all here.  This is a T~Shirt made from two tank tops.  The first tank is the ...

This is a paper pieced quilt.  This one is queen size. I had a machine embroidery header made to match this quilt. The dragonflies on th...

Do you get tired of your towel falling on the floor constantly?  Here is an idea to keep it on the oven door.  For this project I just c...

So the whole is world is going green trying to reduce our carbon foot print.  Here is a cute way to make those plain shopping bags cute....

Identical Blessing Dresses.  To make these dresses and all others on this site, you can use any infant dress pattern and just use your im...

This is a wonderful gadget so you can easily use the larger cones of thread on your regular sewing machine.  For this project we used a lar...

You could easily make these from recycled jeans. I just measured how large I needed for each bag to hold 2 camp cookers. I just made a t...

Hot Pads  Main fabric - cut 4 - 5" squares for each hot pad Contrast fabric cut 2 -5" squares for each hot ...

This is a very simple project to keep your hot dog sticks clean and together. I just cut a pant leg off and trimmed it up to be squared. ...

To make this bag make a 4 rows of 8 patches. Sew together and just flow the bottom to create the shape.  This is optional. This bag is l...

 For these bibs I cut a kitchen towel in half.  (Making two bibs.) Fold a small piece of fabric to fit the towel, allow for side pocket...

Bodice To make this dress and all other blessing dress that will be posted on this site, you can use any infant dress pattern and just ...

This bag I made to fit a jumper battery. So I measured the battery to know how big to make all my squares  ~ which are really rectangles....