The Butterfly Project

 

Wanted: 1.5 million Butterflies:  Create a Butterfly in Remembrance of a Child!

 

The Butterfly

The last, the very last,

So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.

Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing

against a white stone. . . .

Such, such a yellow

Is carried lightly 'way up high.

It went away I'm sure because it wished

to kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I've lived in here,

Penned up inside this ghetto.

But I have found what I love here.

The dandelions call to me

And the white chestnut branches

in the court.

Only I never saw another butterfly.

 

That butterfly was the last one.

Butterflies don't live in here,

in the ghetto.

Pavel Friedmann 6.4.1942

Pavel Friedmann was born on January 7,

1921, in Prague and deported to Terezin on

April 26, 1942. He died in Auschwitz on

September 29, 1944.

 

This is to honor the memory of the 1.5 million children that perished in the Holocaust.  The Holocaust Museum in Houston, Texas is setting out to collect and exhibit the 1.5 million handmade butterflies. The museum has collected 400,000 butterflies at this time, so there is a way to go! I hope we can be a part of them meeting their goal! The exhibition is scheduled for Spring of 2013.  Now they do have some rules of size and materials:

 

# Butterflies should be no larger than 8 inches by 10 inches.

# Butterflies may be of any medium the artist chooses, but two-dimensional submissions are preferred.

# Glitter and all glitter-related products should not be used.

# Food products (cereal, macaroni, candy, marshmallows or other perishables) also should not be used.

 

You can find more information clicking on these two links:

http://www.hmh.org/ed_butterfly1.shtml

and

http://www.gssjc.org/cin/fd/2009/Jan/butterfly.pdf

 

So how can we help them meet their goal?  *smiles*  By making butterflies of course! 

 

During the month, different ideas, directions and patterns of butterflies will be posted!  Hopefully by all of you as you create your butterflies!  Of course with all the creative people here there should be a plethera of ideas!

 

What we'd like to do is have y'all post a picture of the butterfly(s) that you make and then mail them to Twinnie!  My address is on the contact thread!  Then I will forward them on to the museum from the Kin of DM.

 

This project is open and welcomes everyone interested to participate!  You don't have to belong to the Kin!  Of course you can always join us, since you'll fall in love with us anyway!  Just pm twinnie for her address!

 

During the month, I hope we can discuss the Holocaust a bit. Torrie had a wonderful idea of having a Holocaust survivor visit our boards for conversation.  If anyone knows somebody that would be willing to do that please contact Torrie or Twinnie!

 

Ok folks...let me hear from you on this!

 

 

 

 

 

I can make a butterfly out of beads  >.>

 

I can even share the pattern if someone's interested. It's easy.

 

 

 

 

Nyn

Please share!

 

I am going to try my best to get on this one. I need to go throught my craft stuff.  :)

oh I can knit one and then we can quilt some to, we can also just make an 8x10 inch plan paper pattern and collage other things in the spaces, my daughter makes scuptures out of wire but no way will i try that, takes an artist eye and well shes an artist so*re*, can make little plaster casts of butterflys and paint them....so many ideas head bursting!

 

I'm a memeber of the VFW here in my town, maybe you could have former military memebers who fought in WWII as guest as well?

 

Then again after speeking with these old guys you might have a problem getting anyone to show, they just don't use computers.

I'm in! I'm also planning on getting my class involed. They need to think about someone else for a change.

 

I'm thinking I'll start with quilling and see where I go from there! ;)

*grins and claps*                                i am so excited by you guys being so excited!  thank you!!  also those are really great ideas!  just remember the guide lines the museum has set!          what exactly do they mean by 2d and not 3d?                                              i also had thought about doing a sequined design, a ^stained glass^ type thing with melted crayons...*grins*  so many fun ideas!  great idea torrie if you have any wwIIvets that would be willing to share their stories!  oh..hon ciuld you also post the link you have for the stories of the holocaust survivors please?  thanks! 

2d is a repressentation on a piece of paper has no depth 3d is not an image but something that has depthlike a statue

 

the 2 demesions are length and width

 

3 demenesions are legth width and higth

 

lol 4 demendsion includes time*w* or is a famous motown group from the fifties sixties and seventies

I can look for knit and crochet patterns for butterflies.  (It'll probably take me about 2.5 seconds to find them too.  Thank you, Ravelry database. :P )  And post them here.

 

I've been wanting to go to that museum in Houston.  Perhaps it's time to start suggesting a road trip to the hubby. :P

 

 

ETA:  Here are some links to crochet and knit patterns for butterflies:

 

CROCHET:

 

http://www.crochetnmore.com/butterfly.htm

http://members.optusnet.com.au/we2/butterfly.html

http://www.freevintagecrochet.com/other/s44-butterfly-pattern.html

http://www.freevintagecrochet.com/other/s55-butterfly-pattern.html

http://kimmerseyourself.blogspot.com/2008/08/butterflies.html

http://crochetdoilies.com/crochet_butterfly.html

 

A couple of those are parts of other projects.  Just skip to the part where it has you make just the butterfly and ignore the rest. ;)

 

 

KNIT:

http://www.chemknits.com/2010/01/metamorphosis-part-ii-butterfly.html

http://www.chemknits.com/2010/05/butterfly-finger-puppet-knitting.html

http://www.knithappens.com/content/view/18/35/*

http://www.mypicot.com/knitting_patterns_flower205.html*

 

*These are actually links to pages where you can click to download the PDF document for the patters.

 

oo sweet!! I tuaght myself how to knit and crocett, bought kits at joann fabrics

 

 

mmmm going to crochett some i think

 

I'd love to do a cross stitch for this, but dunno if I'll end up with the money before the deadline. *blah* Hopefully I will. *crosses fingers*

 

*EDIT* Doh! Their project runs till 2012... not 2010... Okay, I just can't read today. Will try to get it done by the end of the month... but dunno if that will happen.

so how long do we have before we have to have them into you?

 

I haven't even planned mine yet, but you know me my follow through sucks.

I could paint one if you all like in Madhubani Stlye but please tell me where to post or PM it. I could make more than one. I am almost free nowadays.

btw hello Pankkuri, don't think I've meet you yet are you by anychance Indian? I think I saw in another post somewhere you said your from another country, but i don't recall where you said your from.

 

I've never seen Madhibani style or maybe i did and didn't know thats the name for it, do you have any pics?

 

btw i'm up State New York

btw hello Pankkuri, don't think I've meet you yet are you by anychance Indian? I think I saw in another post somewhere you said your from another country, but i don't recall where you said your from.

 

I've never seen Madhibani style or maybe i did and didn't know thats the name for it, do you have any pics?

 

btw i'm up State New York

 

 

yes i am an Indian.

 

I don't have currently any pics of madhubani style. it was a style i learned few years back and basically there is outlining which makes it special.

I worked with some people from India when I was in the Air Force and stationed in saudi, what part of India are you from? Or in at the moment? I Have another friend Asra who come from a villiage along the coast, lost a few memebers of her villiage to the sunami.