Historical Butterfly – Another Butterfly II

I did not have fun with Trellis Stitch. It was just horrible to do.

Not how to do the stitch itself – but that because the butterfly is between the Dusty Pink Rose base, and the strawberries, and I kept bumping into them with my needle.

With Trellis Stitch you need your needle horizontal in order to make clockwise or anti-clockwise wraps around it, so there was lots of bumping.

I tried holding my needle up in the air and do it, but then I got myself in a mess with the thread. IT really is a lot easier to do if you do the wrap just as the needle emerges from the ground.

I don’t think I’ve done a very good job – I think it’s more a ‘matt of knots’  than actual Trellis Stitch.

I had planned to do the last strawberry in that stitch, but haven’t, since I would have had the same problem even worse. (I’ll post on that as soon as I’ve put it’s Pearl Purl on).

I’ll have to try the stitch again when I have more room to maneuvere.

The butterfly looks good with it’s Royal Blue outline, which picks up the other butterfly I just did, which also had it’s wings outlined in Royal Blue – across the other side of the sampler.

I padded the body with felt, and did split stitch on those coloured parts. The outline is in two threads, also in split stitch.