From Crochet at About.com: Black and Hot Pink Butterfly Circle Chart
Designed by Sandi Marshall

To make a crocheted background for this design - When working in single crochet: Starting chain is 30. Work this plain background for 30 rows. When working in afghan stitch: Starting chain is 29 chains. Work this plain background for 30 rows. After completing row 30, do a finishing edge row, like so: Working right to left, (insert hook behind next single vertical thread, yarn over, draw through two loops) repeat to the end of the row. End off. To finish the squares: Work around outer edge in single crochet, with one single crochet in end of each row and in each stitch around. In each corner stitch, you will need to work multiple stitches, such as 3 sc in each corner or (sc, ch 1, sc) in each corner (use your own favorite corner stitch combination). Adding Cross-Stitch: With each stitch representing one square on the chart, and one cross-stitch X covering one stitch, follow chart to cross stitch the design on the crocheted square. Use a large-eye yarn or tapestry needle and yarn of the same weight that you used to crochet the square. Optional: I designed the center of the chart to be an open area so that you can position your family initial or another small favorite subject in the center of the butterfly circle, if you'd like to.

See a photo of an afghan made from this chart at http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa080500.htm

Approximate finished size (for each square):
With this type of project, gauge is very flexible. Items such as afghans and pillows made from these squares can be a wide variety of finished sizes. I'm giving you one approximate finished size just to give you a general idea.
With worsted weight yarn: and a size US G hook, finished size is about 8 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches.
Gauge: With worsted weight yarn: 3 1/2 single crochet = 1 inch, 4 rows = 1 inch

My inspiration for this design started with a public domain single butterfly image from the year 1920. My final design emerged from a series of charting stages, where I further rearranged and added to, in each charted stage, until I was satisfied with the final resulting Butterfly Circle Design that you see here.

Even though my inspiration started with a public domain image, my design is completely different from that image of a single butterfly which inspired me and so please note that the Butterfly Circle Design is copyright 2000 by Sandi Marshall, licensed to About.com, Inc. Free for your own personal use only. Personal vs Commercial Use (of a pattern for which you do not own the copyright yourself): To adhere to copyright laws, any pattern which is currently under copyright protection is assumed to be for your own personal use only (it does not need to state that in the copyright statement or terms of use for that pattern). For your own personal use only means that you may make items from the design for yourself or for gifts but you may not sell items which include the design within the item. Selling would be a commercial use, not a personal use, of the pattern. You would need to get written permission from the copyright holder to use the pattern for any commercial use.

Per copyright law, do not post on another web site, blog page (or elsewhere) the actual chart or instructions that are on this page. Please do not distribute reproduced copies of any form (with or without charge) in any way. Instead, you are welcome to post the Main Page URL for this pattern so that anyone who would like the chart may come here for themselves and benefit from everything else this site has to offer. It makes a world of difference to me, in helping to enable me to continue designing new patterns. Thank you.

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Main page for this pattern, showing two more color versions of the Butterfly Circle Chart: http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa80500.htm

This design can also be worked in Filet Crochet; chart and instructions here: http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa072300.htm

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