Bucks Point butterfly. See pattern 377.
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This butterfly's wings are made of honeycomb surrounded by gimps. Its body is cloth stitch. Its antennae are plaits. I suggest that you understand all these before trying butterflys.
butterfly pattern
The diagram below avoids the complexities of the individual stitches by showing each pair of threads as a single line. Click here to see how to work a gimp. Outside the gimp is not part of the butterfly. It will probably be Bucks Point net. I am not going to give detailed instructions for the butterfly, as it is quite complicated. Instead, I am going to break it down into steps.
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You could use a gimp for the antennae and the body. See pattern378.
You could try different stitches inside the butterfly wings. Kat stitch is an obvious alternative. You could try Bucks Point net or even Torchon ground, although then the distinction between the upper and lower wings may be lost.
Here is a smaller and simpler butterfly. You can have honeycomb or Kat stitch in the wings, or some other ground, such twisted hole ground or Bucks Point net.
The way to work it is similar to the bee. It is used in pattern 383.
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