Butterflies are one of my most favorite motifs to work with.  When a friend requested more ideas of what to make with triangles woven on the potholder loom, I was inspired to design this butterfly:
You’ll need to get out your potholder loom, and your spool knitter  and less than an ounce of yarn in wing colors and less than an ounce of black yarn for the body.
If you haven’t seen my video on
how to weave a triangle on the potholder loom
then, click on the link  above, because you’ll need to know how to do that.
For this butterfly, I combined a …read more

This little video is brilliant. Now, this is about as far away from the usual butterfly stuff you see here as you can get.
But, go see it…..
moth
What can a butterfly fanatic say? um, not, ’spiffy’
When I said ’spiffy’….. a guzbillion people made fun of me.
Spiffy video.

While we were driving to the West coast at the beginning of Sept 08, I finally finished crocheting the background for a freeform butterfly shawl that I’ve been working on for ages.
The shawl is a combination of tatting and crochet and is a small semi-circular shoulder shawl. It is super comfortable to wear as it stays in place without tugging.
I love putting crochet together with tatting as they are  harmonious  partners.

I went through a fair amount of frustration with making the shawl, as I had to frog it many times to find the perfect combination of threads.
But, now I love …read more

Well…. the first winner of the earrings didn’t respond to her email or the  shout outs on the blog  about the contest, so I did a second chance draw.
Here’s the winner: WINNER

Well…. the rules to the Butterfly earring contest said that the winners of the contest would have until August 5th to respond to my email and send me their address.
2 of the winners have not done that yet…. so I am going to give them until midnight tonight and if they haven’t responded by then…. I will draw again for these earrings:

Gold color tatted butterfly earrings contest winner

Tatted cotton rainbow earrings contest winner
A fair warning!
Image source: Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

I posted about these little tatted butterflies . I have been making them for the red shawl that I am working on for workshops I am teaching in the fall.
I noticed as I was photoshopping the pics that the butterfly wasn’t one of the new and revised ones. Ah well, the pics are so cute I had to post them anyhow.
One thing I forgot to mention about the yarn for the shawl is that it is Coats Royale Gemini Double Strand Crochet Thread, 100% mercerized cotton. (similar to size 3) The color is 0446 Burgundy/Victory Red.
I’ll be …read more

I was so happy today to be able to say to my dentist:
“I really like you, but….
we’ve been seeing too much of each other.
It’s time for a break.”
She and her assistant both cracked up and we all merrily agreed that we are on a break. (we really have been spending waaaaaaaaaay too much time together lately! erk)
Anyhow, while I am having to spend time in waiting rooms and dentist chairs and other tedious places, I bless my tatting shuttles.
Oh, how I love my tatting! It’s so portable, and it’s also so gentle, soothing and contemplative.
Today, while tatting on the …read more

I’ve been working away on a crocheted and tatted freeform lace butterfly shawl.
It’s been frustrating and challenging, because it just hasn’t been going the way I thought it should.
But! I have had a couple of breakthroughs that I am really pleased about.
The first is that I have finally settled on the thread that I am going to use for the background- I’ll post pics of it later. (and I twigged to something else about the background that I needed to change- but more about that later….)
The thing that I am really happy about is that I have  come up with …read more

On one of the email groups that I belong to, someone posed an interesting question about color combinations that really captivate us.  This made me think about the red shawl that I am working on… which is all about butterflies.
Which brought up for me that butterflies are, hands down, hooks up, my most beloved design motif.  (Well, I also love hearts, flowers, leaves, hands and the human form – but, other than those, it’s butterflies for me…..)
So, I wonder…. are there specific motifs that really sing for you?
Do you find yourself being drawn back, again and again, to working with …read more

OH!!!!! I am just delighted! After reading my posting about Hinka Osinga’s spectacular crocheted model based on the mathematics of the Butterfly Effect,  Kristi found the actual pattern for it!
I’ll never have time to do it, but I love it that now I COULD!
Here’s the pattern URL: Crocheted Mathematics of Chaos Butterfly Model   by Hinka Osinga and Bernd Krauskopf

thanks so much, Kristi! Wheeeeeeeeeee!