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| Some of the items that I have crocheted (please wait for photos to load) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The two Irish Crochet butterflies (photos above & below) were made from antique patterns. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| If you join Irish_Crochet_Lovers located at Yahoo Groups, you will find the instructions for these two butterflies in the files section. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The butterfly instructions can now also be found at http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org . Look for the AWB Crochet Book, in the booklist. It's available free in PDF format. Enjoy! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The above/left Garfield afghan was one of the most difficult things I think I 've ever crocheted. I'd never attempted color changes before... What a tangle!!! I did finally get a system going as to how to handle/delete all the twisting of the yarn together. (turn clockwise when turning work from front to back, turn counter-clockwise when turning work from back to front) The above/right "Stone Lace Curtain" comes from the Annie's Attic booklet named "The International Collection of Crochet Patterns". I varied from the curtain's instructions by adding a curly tassel to the bottom of each 'mile-a-minute' strip of the curtain. (You can see a curly tassel above FunnyFace's right ear in the photo.) I also added crocheted loops to the top of each curtain strip so that I could slip the curtain onto a cafe curtain rod. |
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| A Green Butterfly?? Yes. They do exist. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The light color in the wings is really light green crochet thread. I just couldn't get the camera and lighting to co-operate.. |
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| Here we have a green butterfly. I asked a co-worker what her favorite color was. She said green, and her eyes immediately went to my crocheted butterfly collection on my bulliten board. Well, I had to do some research to see if there was such a thing as a green butterfly - there is. This pattern is Lee Ann Hamm's butterfly with a few variations. The body is different, and the bottom of the wings are shaped more like one type of a living green butterfly. A "google photo search" will show you several green butterflies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lee Ann Hamm's crocheted butterfly can be found at http://www.premier.net/~lhamm/buttrfly.htm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Compared to Lee Ann's butterfly, the body on the green butterfly is narrower on row 9 (4 sc instead of 6 sc). The head is 2 stitches fuller. The bottom wing ends with 2 trcs, 3 dtrs and 3 trtrs, all in the space, with the last picot on wing changed to a chain 5 or 6 loop, with 10 sc over it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This is also Lee Ann Hamm's butterfly with the above mentioned variations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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