butterfly afghan

[reefefered]

looking for this pattern or name of it ...anything

[Jennie G.]

It is supposedly from Crochet Home Magazine no. 63, dated Feb. 1988

[Jennie G.]

And it's on the cover of that issue!   https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/flutter-by-afghan

 

[Granny Square]

If you look closely at it, blow it up if you can - it's just solid granny squares (that have gaps only in the corners, straight DC between) either all 1 color or half 1 color & half another.  Wouldn't be hard to sketch it out on graph paper from the photo.  

The body is probably a strip of sc (can't quite tell, might be a taller stitch), and if I were reverse-engineering this I'd used surface slip stitch for the antennae. 

Edit, forgot the spots - look like those squares are first rounds in black, then change color to 'wing color' in last round.

[Granny Square]

Surface slip stitch tutorial https://www.crochetspot.com/how-to-crochet-surface-crochet-or-surface-slip-stitch/

Solid granny square - https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/solid-granny-square-3

Edit, solid granny square that starts with a circle https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/dotty-solid-granny-square

What I'd do is turn the granny every round; makes it reversible, also should leave the second color waiting for you in the right spot so you don't have to carry it.

I think I'd not continuously join because of the colors, but rather do sewn mattress stitch so it's invisible.  Do all the seams in 1 direction, then all the seams in the other for the fewest ends.

 

 

[reefefered]

Great! Thanks you.  I looked and the magazine is out of print. I also think you are right about how its' done.  I will give it a try.

[ReniC]

Used magazine Item # GS 8257 available at: http://treasuredheirloomscrochet.com/resale-crochet-home2.html