An easy craft that doesn't take time or amounts of yarn : a kind of quick stash buster, instead!!! You'll need : a crochet hook (5mm in my case) some colourful yarns (at least 2 different colours to crochet body and wings) a pair of scissors a yarn needle I'm following the US crochet terminology! Choose a colour and make a slip knot on the hook, then chain 23 ( 20+3, where 3 chains equal your first double crochet) Yarn over and insert your hook in the 5th stitch from hook, where you crochet your first real double crochet ( DC ) Make other 18 DCs , so you reach the end of your first row (total stitches : 20 = 19DCs+beginning 3 chains) Cut the yarn, fasten off and make a double knot with your yarn ends, so to have a couple of antennae for your butterfly-to-be. Trim the excess of yarn. Now, you need to change the colour of yarn and you have to find where to start to crochet the first wing. Count 6 stitches starting from the antenna...
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