Tenth Butterfly Frogged

I really should have known from the time I finished the first wing component and saw how ruffly it was that this butterfly simply was not going to work for me. The pattern I was using is for size 30 thread, and I was using size 10 thread, so when I was crocheting the body (the long white piece on the right below) and the pattern called for crocheting it to a certain length, I knew that probably wouldn't be correct considering I was using a thicker thread. So, I decided to try sewing the wings together first, figuring I'd then be able to gauge the length of the body against that.

As you can see, this turned out to look horrendous. The pattern does call for shirring the straight edges of the four wing components and then sewing them to the stuffed and sew-together body component, so I can see why the different way I did it turned out so badly. However, by this time I was so tired of messing with it, and since the shirring and stuffing would probably make it too dimensional for The Butterfly Project anyway, I decided it was time to abandon it and try a different butterfly instead.