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CROCHET: Resilient Butterfly Tutorial | The Loopy Stitch Welcome to my Resilient Butterfly Tutorial. This little butterfly was first designed for my Resilience In Bloom blanket.

MATERIALS: For this tutorial, used Stylecraft Naturals Organic Cotton in the following colours: Gypsum, Peach, Coral, Peppermint, Sage and Storm 4mm crochet hook Scissors and yarn needle. This is a long video.

Pattern by Ariel Barton. The tree is based on the one on Arwen's banner at the end of Return of the King. This tree is worked as a rectangular panel. Allow 61 stitches for it. (Increases and decreases will happen; however, you need 61 stitches going in and will have 61 stitches coming out.) Note that these are half-charts. So you start at the right edge and work from right to left. Then you work back from left to right, starting at the red bar, if a red bar exists. The trunk is just a three-stitch knit rib all the way up. (In other words, repeat Row 23 of the roots chart as many times as you want.)

This is a video tutorial that explains how to make a pinwheel square using the Tunisian crochet. The tutorial will walk you through making 4 different patterns as shown in the picture.

These little stars are so easy to make and work up very quickly. Have used Caron Simply Soft with a 4mm hook to give the stars more structure. The stars may benefit from blocking but so far they are holding their shape well and not curling.

Basic geometric shapes in crochet: square, hexagon, circle, triangle and pentagon. Done as crochet charts rather than written directions.

Tatted owl earrings. Done with needle-tatting. Very cute.

Pattern/tutorial for crocheting a circle inside a square.

Spiral-square crochet square. Author's note: The name of this square is the local phrase for things that aren't lined up straight.

This Granny Rectangle begins with a strip of "granny stitch" to make the centre of the rectangle, rather than doing something awkward with crocheting in the back loops of a starting chain, as I've seen elsewhere.

Triangle crochet motif, a little more interesting than a plain triangle, but not too complicated

An increasing spiral motif, like a spiral shell. (The instructions are all in one image.)

While this is a pattern for a potholder, it could be used as a motif used for something else; the two-colour spiral is attractive in its own right.

Unlike most owl motifs, this one has an owl with its wings spread instead of hidden