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?

Image source: Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright 

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