Hey friends! 

Happy Friday! This week I’ve got a new embroidered butterfly to share with you…

Last week I posted all about my recent experience of raising and caring for nine Peacock butterflies – a very pretty red fellow with large eye spots reminiscent of peacock feathers, I became so attached to the caterpillars and then later the butterflies in my care that I couldn’t help but want to create a needlework version as I really missed them once I released them into the wild. 

A Peacock has a real life wingspan of almost 7cm and there’s basically no difference between males and females so I just made the one. Keeping it inline with my ‘twice life size’ scale this Peacock has an almighty wingspan of more or less 14cm and is the biggest one I’ve made so far!!

I’m so unbelievably pleased with this one!

As usual the wings are all backed with lace and they have a very thin stainless steel wire concealed in the edge of the design to help the wings keep their shape and super long antennae for extra personality.

That’s a wrap for this week…one more butterfly down, only 50+ still to go!! Stay tuned for the next instalment on my butterfly creating adventure and thank you so much for checking out this post!

Ps. If you want to have a look at my other butterflies they’re HERE!

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