I wanted a simple lace pattern for socks, so I looked through my stitch dictionaries. I wouldn’t say I collect them, but I do have quite a collection. Some of my favorites were published in the 1980s. Looking through them, I kept seeing one pattern I liked. In several of the books it was named “Openwork V,” but I found one that was similar in just one book where it was called “Openwork Butterfly.” The more I looked at it, I realized that it was the same stitch pattern, but it had been photographed upside down, which I liked better. I adapted it so that the Vs would be upside down for my sock knit from the toe up.

As for the name…if you use your imagination, the eyelets do resemble butterfly wings. I did not know that a group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope, a swarm, or a flutter. I like flutter the best.