Wednesday 15 July 2009

Buddelia and butterflies



Last year the 'Lacemakers' Circle' held an exhibition of laces with the theme "Flora and fauna". There were some exquisite examples of all types of lace and I was honoured to have two of my pieces of tatting included in the display.
I had already created a buddleia as part of a bookmark and added butterflies in the same colour to make it more 'bookmark' shaped. Well, the butterflies didn't show up very well so I decided to cut them off and use the buddelia as the centre for this picture. I Googled 'British butterflies' and then from all the images I settled on three that I 'd try to interpret in tatting. The 'Orange-tipped' and the 'Purple Hairstreak' butterflies are quite near but I wanted to add some contrasting colour to 'the mix'. Eventually, for the third type of butterfly, I combined the markings of a 'Tortoiseshell' and a 'Painted Lady.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

That is nice. :)

Jane Eborall said...

Cor, that's SO pretty. Love the butterflies. The colours you used are superb.

LadyShuttleMaker aka MadMadPotter said...

Very very pretty!

Tatskool said...

Very nice, pretty accurate too. Well done.