Shining Blue Nymph Butterfly Charted Design

Continuing our butterfly
design series,
this fourth chart honors
an African forest butterfly.

Shining Blue Nymph, Blue Banded Nymph
also known as
Cynandra Opis

The chart is suitable for use with various fiber arts mediums, adaptable to many needlecrafts.

Crochet Instructions
Materials
Worsted weight yarn: 1 oz. white, 1 oz. black,
1/2 oz. medium bright blue
optional metallic blue thread

Size G crochet hook

Guage: 4 stitches = 1 inch, 4 rows = 1 inch

Apprx. size of each finished square = 10 inches

Directions
With white yarn, chain 41.
Row 1: sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc in ea ch across.(40 sc)
Rows 2 - 4: sc in ea st across.
Row 5: Begin chart at first row on the chart. (plain row)
Rows 6 - 37: Continue to follow chart.
After completing all rows on the chart:
Rows 38 - 40: With white yarn, sc in ea st across.
End off.

Finishing
Using a straight stitch, with black yarn or embroidery floss, embroider antennae as indicated in blue on the chart.

Another way is to crochet the square entirely in the background color in single crochet (or in afghan stitch) and then, with yarn, using a large-eye needle, cross stitch the butterfly design on, following the chart, in the indicated yarn colors.

Blue Nymph Butterfly Chart Pattern copyright 1997 Sandi Marshall, licensed to About.com, Inc.
Free for your own personal use only (as not-for-profit use only).
Per copyright law, pattern is not to be sold or redistributed in any form. Instead, please give the URL of this page to any others who would like to have the graph, so that they can come here to get the pattern for themselves. Thank you. All rights reserved worldwide. Copyright Info For Crafters

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The Shining Blue Nymph male butterfly has iridescent blue bands on his wings. You may wish to hold a metallic blue thread together with the blue yarn as you crochet the blue bands in the pattern, to mimic an iridescent effect for this butterfly.

The 09/27/1997 Feature gives links to all butterflies in the complete butterfly series.

Where to Find a Source for Metallic Thread

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