Project introduction
This article is a pattern overview, not a full tutorial, for a summery butterfly wall hanging by Lovely Yarns on Crazypatterns, described in the source as a free pattern. It covers the design idea, the skills and supplies the source lists, and how the piece is mounted, so you can judge the project before opening the complete instructions.
Begin with the Original designer’s pattern and instructions for the chart and row details. For more butterfly ideas, see Quick Gift Idea - Butterfly Crochet Bracelet: Pattern Overview and The Retro Butterfly Day Bag: Pattern Overview as helpful related reading for butterfly fans.
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Butterfly Wall Hangings - A Summery Crochet Pattern Overview
Lovely Yarns links this design to summer sunshine, long days, colorful flowers and butterflies, also called summer birds where the author lives in Switzerland. The sample is blue because a large blue butterfly once landed on the author’s young son’s bright blue trainers at a butterfly house, a memory he still talks about.
The hanging uses the corner to corner, or C2C, technique in rows of colored blocks that build the butterfly picture. Basic C2C knowledge is required, because the source focuses on the design and does not teach the technique step by step. Each row note instead states whether it increases or decreases, how it begins, and the block counts and colors.
With cotton DK yarn, the finished hanging measures approximately 30 x 28 cm. The source uses US terms: ST for stitch, SC for single crochet, CH for chain stitch, DC for double crochet and SS for slip stitch. A block is the beginning chain together with three double crochet stitches, and a chart appears at the end of the original post.
- 3 mm crochet hook
- DK weight cotton yarn, beige 60 g
- DK weight cotton yarn, black 25 g
- Blue (Light Blue) 6 g
- Blue (Medium Blue) 18 g
- Blue (Dark Blue) 18 g
- A twig for hanging, the sample approximately 40 cm (16 inches) long
- A regular sewing needle
Color changes are made by finishing the last double crochet of the old color with the new color, letting unused yarn fall to the back. The picture grows through increasing rows, then narrows through decreasing rows. The source notes that other color families, such as orange, pink or green, can replace the blues used in the sample.
For finishing, the yarn is left uncut after the final row and three slip stitches bring it back to the corner. Its sewing length is measured by wrapping it around the twig 46 times. The piece is blocked with an iron, sewn to the twig through every second stitch, and given a hanger approximately 60 cm (24 inches) long, knotted at each end.
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