Hello my friends! 

A couple of weeks ago I shared a photography post celebrating the rare Wall butterfly. I was over the moon to not only spot this butterfly in my garden last summer but to also have found a pupa in the grass that was invading my patio!

This is literally the rarest butterfly I’ve ever seen in my Wildspace!

Super exciting, and of course I had to make one to add to my collection.

I decided to make only make a female as there isn’t masses of difference between the two sexes.

So, Wall is basically a medium sized orange butterfly with brown patterning…sort of a cross between a Gatekeeper and a Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary. With a real life wingspan of 44 (male) and 46 (female) it means my needlework version is around 9cm across.

I’m so unbelievably pleased with this one!

As usual it has a very thin stainless steel wire concealed in the edge of the wings to help the keep their shape and it was lovely to work on such an intricate pattern.

Well that’s a wrap for this week…22 butterflies down and only 50 to go, I feel like I’m really getting through them only another twelve and I’ll be halfway through my challenge!! Stay tuned for the next instalment on my butterfly creating adventure. 

Thank you so much for checking out this post!

Hopefully you’ll be back next week!

Ps. If you wanna see all my other (much prettier) butterflies they’re HERE!

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