Butterflies

So while looking for inspirations for décor for my daughter's room I spotted this on a new favorite blog of mine. Isn't she amazing? As soon as I saw her butterflies I knew I needed to make my own. I however used this pattern for my butterflies. I used a worsted weight so they came out the perfect size for what I wanted.

I love how they turned out. They are only two rounds, but they were kind of confusing as I was crocheting them because they look nothing like I thought they would. But as soon as I folded them in half, it's a butterfly! I also did a single crochet "stem" for the body and antenna which I slip stitched on.

I found some round wooden plaques at Joann's that were the right size for these butterflies. I whipped out my acrylic paints and did colors that were similar to the colors of my butterflies. Then I simply hot glued the butterflies to the plaques after the paint was completely dry. After hammering in sawtooth hangers they were ready to hang.

As you can see, I did a trio of butterflies. I just used yarn that I already had. So this was a quick, easy, and pretty inexpensive project that I love.

I learned!

I decided a few months ago that I wanted to learn how to crochet. So when I joined a swap on Swap-bot where you send your partner something that you made which was a new craft for you, I decided to jump in and do something crocheted. I'd seen this a while ago and thought these bracelets were very beautiful and decided to make one. I used larger crochet thread, and so it look me little while to figure out the gauge, but I think it works. My work certainly isn't perfect, but I think that it turned out very nice any way and I sure hope that who I sent it to likes it.