Cameo Butterfly Doily by BellaCrochet

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Cameo Butterfly Doily by BellaCrochet

Thompson, Suzann

2019

13 inches in diameter

Elizabeth Ann White launched her career as a crochet designer in the late 1980s. She brought a large bag of original designs to the East Texas pattern publishing company, Annie’s Attic. The editors there accepted her designs for publication and asked if she would design more.

According to her blog, bellacrochet.blogspot.com, Ann (her preferred name), worked in the crochet pattern publishing business for the next twenty years. She was an in-house designer, technical editor, and eventually a crochet pattern book editor.

Ann continued designing as a freelancer. In the 2020s she sold her patterns online. She offered quite a few free design downloads, too.

The doily shown here is Ann’s Cameo Butterfly Doily, from her Butterflies and Roses Pineapple Doilies pattern collection. I crocheted it in 2019 using Aunt Lydia’s No. 10 crochet cotton.

Ann’s pattern instructed crocheters to glue the flowers and the butterfly to the pineapple motif base. I was shocked, because…glue?—on a doily?

However, I followed directions. After the fabric glue set, I stitched down the slender antennae and the tips of each wing, just to make sure they would stay put.

Suzann Thompson