Greetings friends! 

I’ve got a new needlework butterfly to share with you this week! I recently met so many butterflies during my recent exploration of Penhale sands including the Brown Argus and really excitingly I spotted my very first Grizzled Skipper – a tiny black and white fella similar to the much more brown Dingy Skipper (#14 of my challenge, link at the bottom) so obviously I wanted to create one of these very special butterflies to add to my ever growing handmade collection. 

This is #23 on my Embroidered Butterfly challenge – and isn’t one I expected to be making this year!!!

Grizzled Skipper (Pyrgus malvae) is found in Britain and Ireland but is super rare, literally its only found on Penhale sands in the whole of Cornwall so spotting them is really special. Its black and white wings are covered with mottled patchwork markings and they have super fluffy bodies.

Genuinely I’m over the moon with my Grizzled Skippers photos and if you wanna see what they look like in real life please check out my Penhale post from last week (link at the bottom)!! 

They are such a tiny butterfly and have a real life wingspan of just 27mm (so tiny!), so my needlework version still has quite a little wingspan of about 5cm-ish to keep it inline with my ‘twice life size’ scale and I’m so pleased with how it turned out, the ultra tiny stitches were quite challenging.

This one has been a joy to make and I love wearing them in my hair!

Also I only have another 49 butterflies to make (only!).

So, thats about it for this week. Thank you so much for checking this out and I wish you a wonderfully sunshine filled week ahead! I’m gonna try super hard to post on Friday!!

Ps. If you wanna see all my other butterflies they’re HERE!

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