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!

I am delighted with them.

I tatted them while blissing out to the music in the bistro where my husband’s jazz trio was playing.

People kept coming up to me to ask what I was doing and to admire the thread.

Don’t tat in public if you are shy!

People are intrigued by it and want to know what on earth you are doing.

I am still waiting for the little Flip video camera to arrive (it’s almost TWO months now that I have been waiting for it!).

When it gets here, I’ll do a video tutorial on how to tat these incredibly easy, but oh so gorgeous, earrings.

And, perhaps, I should make a pair to give away in a series of ‘Yay, I’ve been writing Hankering for Yarn for more than 2 years now’ celebratory give aways next week….

Whaddya think?

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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 at home’ for hosting an amazing carnival of bloggie give aways!

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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 next winner will be announced, and will need to email me…..

Thank you all so much for entering my contest.

I will be having more contests soon, so please check back!

Thanks to  the Bloggy giveaways for hosting a wonderful carnival!

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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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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 1/4 inches tall) there is a pin on the back of each wing.

The Celtic Interlace Butterfly contest ended on the 15th of August 2007  and the winner was Susan Johnson. Thank you so much to everyone who entered!

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