The heart is one I had already (Susan Fuller's Heart's Desire). The edging is from Yusai Shokoin's "Tatting" book. The butterfly is the Birte butterfly from "Tatted Butterflies" by Adelheid Dangela.
It took me a few tries to get a butterfly the right size, so I had some extras.
This is the Mia butterfly also from "Tatted Butterflies. A friend of mine saw me making this and liked it. So this is the last picture I got before it flew away with her.
I liked the Birte butterfly enough to make it again. The thread is Oren Bayan metallic thread. I'd love a few more of these (I think they'd look great hanging on a mobile), but my hands need to recover first. Does anyone know of a metallic thread that doesn't feel like tatting barbed wire?
