**I use to make these before I created this website. In fact, some of you may still have yours. Here you can make your own Butterfly fridgies
What you will need:
Size G crochet hook
Small amount of 4-ply yarn
(Choose at least 2 colors of yarn)
one large chenille stem
Instructions:
Ch 8 and connect with slip stitch, ch 3
row 1: Put 23 DC in the circle, join to the top of the ch 3, finish off and add second color..ch 3
row 2: In the space right next to the ch 3 put 2 dc and 1 ch and 3 dc *skip 3 dc and in between the stitches put 3 dc and ch 1 and 3 dc* repeat till their are 8 clusters made..join to the top of the ch 3...ch 1
row 3: In the next ch space put *8 dc, skip 3 dc and put 1 sc in that space* continue around till the end join and fasten off...add 1 st color used and ch 1 row 4 sc around the butterfly and join in the ch 1 and fasten off fold the butterfly in half
take the large pipe cleaner and fold in half and the fold turn to make a small circle then put the pipe cleaner around the middle of the butterfly. Curl the ends of the pipe cleaner. I use the crochet hook and twist it around that.
www.LupusMCTD.comGail,
I have PLENTY of these made up. Just no envelopes or postage to mail them out.
I was trying to sell them for $1 each to raise funds for this site
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