Hey friends! 

A couple of weeks ago I posted a One Frame of a Speckled wood butterfly – a rather pretty brown and cream chap who usually lives in the woods, I felt so super excited to have seen one of these so early in the year that I couldn’t help but want to create a needlework version. 

A Speckled wood has a real life wingspan of almost 5cm. There isn’t too much difference between and males and females so I just made the one – but might add another to this post later. All in all my needlework version has a wingspan of about 10cm to keep it inline with my ‘twice life size’ scale.

I also stitch a very thin, stainless steel jewellery wire around the wing edges to give them more body, its a method that helps everything keep its shape. I’ve also decided to swap out my little crocodile clips for stainless steel brooch pins as they come in more sizes.

That’s a wrap for this week…another butterfly down only 55 to go!! I’m really hoping that you’ll stay with me on my butterfly creating adventure. Thank you so much for checking out this post!

Ps. I’ve actually remade my Small tortoiseshell, Orange tip and Painted lady, if you want to have a look at the new versions and my other butterflies they’re HERE!

Psps. FWIW I’m really looking forward to creating a Monarch in the future as they have a real life wingspan of up to 10cm, which will make it a massive piece of embroidery at nearly 20cm across!

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