@goldflower Just letting you know, this isn’t my best butterfly. I made a lot but gave the good ones away and am left with just the one I experimented with. I’m probably going to redo it tho.
@Priyanka if you don't have Instagram the app doesn't let you see videos if you're on someone's profile, but if you click "open in new tab" on that video (on a computer), you can view it. That's what I was trying to explain to @tmanuck (and sorry if it doesn't make sense again 🙈)
@tmanuck I don't have Instagram either, but I went on @Priyanka's Instagram and double clicked to open in a new tab the post with the tutorial and could see it (I made that on a computer). Hope that makes sense 😅
@tmanuck sorry about that, I made a comment to explain how to make this, it just got pushed to the next page
So you can... 1) read the first comment on this pattern and look at the first picture added with my fancy diagrams
2) make it like @Priyanka s Instagram video where they taped down the folded in half base strings to start instead of putting them on a scrap string. and to connect both wings I think they knotted the base strings together instead of using the leading string to knot across the base strings.
3) @ningc98 is writing a tutorial but it is not up yet
To start make 5 larks head knots on a scrap piece of string. Start knotting the pattern on the 7th base string from the left, not the 10th base string on the right edge.
Only 1 knot on each string, don't start shaping until row 6. After 5 rows gently remove the scrap string and tug on the base strings to remove the slack. Finish knotting the first wing up to row 9. Set the first wing to the side.
Start the 2nd wing with new base strings in the same way, starting from the wing and ending at the body. I flip the pattern upside down to read it for the 2nd wing. Don't cut the black leading string yet.
Lay each wing down facing each other 3" apart. Without twisting, neatly place the base strings for the 1st wing underneath the 2nd wing, and the base strings from the 2nd wing underneath the 1st wing keeping the strings grouped the same way they were in the last row you knotted.
Using the leading string from the 2nd wing, holding together the groups of base strings from both the 1st and 2nd wing, knot 4 across.
Slowly pull on the base strings to bring both sides together.
