Hello my friends! 

A couple of weeks ago I posted some photos of Ringlet butterflies that I took during last years gloriously sunshine filled summer and compared them looks-wise to their much rarer mountain dwelling cousins (who I’ve yet to see).

It was so lovely seeing such a large amount of these butterflies just living their best life out in the wild!

So I decided to make both a Ringlet and a Mountain Ringlet to add to my increasing collection of embroidered butterflies… 

Ringlet (the bigger one) – #18 on my embroidered butterfly challenge – are a member of the ‘brown’ family of butterflies and are an unassuming light brown to almost black butterfly with little decorative black eye-spots, with a wingspan 48mm (male) 52mm (female) so in keeping with my twice life size scale my needlework Ringlet has a wingspan of about 10.5cm. 

The much rarer Mountain Ringlet (the smaller one) – #19 on my embroidered butterfly challenge – is much smaller than their cousins, with a wingspan of 35mm (male) and 38mm (female) and are much darker brown with orange rimmed eyespots. Even when doubled my Mountain Ringlet still only has a tiny 7cm wingspan!

Way back when I started this challenge I decided that I wanted to make 76 butterflies that I’ve revised down to 72! 61 for butterflies we get in the UK and a handful of rare migrants or extinct species.

So, 19 down only 53 more to go!!

Well that’s it for this week…which do you prefer the Ringlet or the Mountain Ringlet? I’d love to know! Thank you so much for checking this out and I wish you a wondrous week ahead!

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

Psps. Also if you want to see my Ringlet photos they’re HERE!

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