The 9 Bees Rug

This rug was inspired by President Gordon B. Hinckley's

talk on the 6 "B's". He later added an additional 3 to total

nine: Be Clean, Be True, Be Positive, Be Humble, Be Still,

Be Prayerful, Be Grateful, Be Smart, and Be Involved.

Some refer to them as the Be Attitudes. It's a great list to

live by.

In designing the rug, I took an old tumbling block quilt design

and tweaked the colors. The six sides of a single tumbling

block is a hexagon--mimicing the honeyed hexagons in a hive.

The large bees are a thicker pile so they appear to hover over

their colorful hive. This rug is 5x7. I have also done an 8x10'

size as well. The first rug made was presented to President

Hinckley by a family with a note that read; "Dear President

Hinckley, We are trying as hard as we can to Be."

The rugs are either all silk(as above) or wool with silk bees.

Most have a black border with the various colored "Be's"

They are hand-knotted in China.