Tatted butterflies make wonderful earrings.
I fell in love with Kreinik’s Metallic 1/8″ ribbon thread and wanted to tat some butterflies with it:

There’s 5 meters on the spool, but I didn’t know if that would be enough to tat 2 butterflies.
So, I decided to do an experiment.
I wound 5 m of Rainbow Hemp Beading Twine from Jolly store  onto my tatting shuttle and tatted these Rainbow Butterflies:

Poifeck!
You can get a pair of earrings with less than 5 m!
So, I went ahead and wrapped my shuttle with the spool of
Kreinik Metallics #209C 1/8″ Ribbon yarn  
and it tatted up BEAUTIFULLY!

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Drumrolls please!
Tick tock… midnight mountain standard time Friday night I asked my husband to please call out a number between 1 and 219.
He thought for a moment, and then announced:
♦ 87!♦
TADAH!
So, the winner of my
Crocheted  Wire Butterfly Earrings contest is:
Pat(crochetsew) 
Who asked:
Is Friday here yet??
Well… Friday was a very good day, and Saturday is even better for Pat Crochetsew.
Pat, you have until Monday at 12 noon, mountain time,  to contact me.
Congratulations!
And to everyone else who entered, thank you so much!
I will be having more contests, so please check back and feel free to enter!
And thanks so much to “don’t try this …read more

It’s been awhile since I had a contest on hankering for yarn!
Even though it’s suddenly winter again where I live, I figure that we ought to be celebrating BUTTERFLIES!
So, I have designed and crocheted copper wire
B U T T E R F L Y Earrings:

The contest to win the crocheted wire earrings (designed and made by Noreen Crone-Findlay):
is     OVER….
and the winner is:
check this link: WINNER 
 The winner MUST send me an email by noon Monday, April 28.
If the winner doesn’t get in touch with me, then I will make another draw, and the …read more

This contest ended in August of 2007.
BUT! I am always holding new contests. Just scroll down down down down the categories on the lower right hand side of this page and click on ‘contest’ and see what’s up!
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Image source: Noreen Crone-Findlay 

Note: THIS contest finished on the 15th of August….
the butterfly pin has been awarded……… but more contests will be unfolding, so do keep checking for them!

And since Jim and I are in the process of radically downsizing in preparation for a whale of a move…..
I decided to have another celebratory contest.
This time, the contest WAS to win

The Celtic interlace butterfly shawl pin that I designed and made for my book: Creative Crocheted Dolls. The wings are copper backed with wood and the body is crocheted. Because it is so big,(it’s 7 1/2 inches wide by 2 …read more