08. Kustom Krafts Little Snapdragon

 

Kustom Krafts Little Snapdragon

Stitched on 32 count Evening Sky Murano from Crafty Kitten

07. Stitch It Picasso Dragon #2

 

The design is #2 in a series of 12 from Stitch It Picasso on Etsy

stitched on 32 count Autumnal Woodland by Crafty Kitten

31. Dragon Dreams Never Too Big To Believe

Dragon Dreams Never Too Big To Believe

from Just Cross Stitch Christmas Ornament Special 2004

stitched on 32 count green linen

Trimmed with Christmas ribbon

Scrapbooked with Not a Creature Was Stirring

25. Dragon Dreams You Are My Gift

Dragon Dreams You Are My Gift

from Just Cross Stitch Christmas Ornament Special 2010

stitched on 32 count green linen

Scrapbooked with Peace on Earth

12. Dragon Dreams Peace on Earth

Dragon Dreams Peace on Earth

from Just Cross Stitch Christmas Ornament Special 2002

stitched on 32 count green linen.

I changed the words to Peace & Harmony, the song familiar to fans of Peppa Pig!

Scrapbooked with You Are My Gift

10. Dragon Dreams Not a Creature Was Stirring

Dragon Dreams Not a Creature Was Stirring

from Just Cross Stitch Christmas Ornament Special 2001

stitched on 32 count green linen

added some metallic threads to the bauble

The frame is an old Christmas card

Scrapbooked with Never Too Big To Believe

21. Dragon Dreams Dragon of the Winter Moon

Dragon Dreams Dragon of the Winter Moon

stitched on 32 count Murano in Moondust by Crafty Kitten

Finally Framed

29. Teresa Wentzler You Were Hatched

Teresa Wenztler You Were Hatched

Stitched on 28 count lilac evenweave

Using charted DMC and DMC metallics for the border

32. Teresa Wenztler Futurecast Dragon

Teresa Wenzler Futurecast conversion

I wanted a dragon and I wanted books, maybe a little dragon sitting on a pile of books?  So I googled around and found this conversion on Deviant Art.  She took the standard Futurecast chart and changed the crystal ball to a book!  Perfect.

Teresa Wentzler designed this dragon to be easily converted into any colour scheme you like.  There is an ornate border and she recommends choosing a variegated thread for it then matching the colours for the dragon.  I left the border off and chose a scheme based on one in the Gallery.  Here are my colours:

A - 3817

B - 3816

C - 3815

D - 501

BS - 3818

1 - 745

2 - 743

BS - an orange, didn't note number!

+  927

BS - 924

Book - 919

Pages - white

Gold - 5282

Green Metallic - E703

Beads - 10023 green

02011 gold 

77. Dragon Dreams Young In Dragon Years

A Facebook exclusive from Dragon Dreams.

It comes with all the numbers so you can choose your age!

Stitched on 28 count green evenweave.

70. Dragon Dreams Fang

Fang!

designed by Dragon Dreams exclusively for their Facebook page

Stitched in DMC on 28 count lilac linen.

39. Joan Elliott April Dragons

Joan Elliott April design from the 2013 Diary.

The fabric is a piece from a Crafty Kitten grab bag, a sort of blue sky effect.  I used all the recommended colours but added backstitch in metallic purple to the purple fronds and also metallic silver bs to the wings.

74 - Little Dragon for Sam

  

Dawn from Crafty Kitten found out she was expecting a baby due in January.  As she would be on maternity leave in January I decided to order my fabric just before Christmas so she could dye it over the holiday period.  I got an email on Boxing Day from her hospital bed saying "Baby came early, don't worry about your fabric, hubby is getting it ready to send to you"  That is the sort of customer service you get from Crafty Kitten, beautiful fabrics come Hell, High Water and Newborn Babies!

Anway, Nic, Hannah and myself collaborated on a Round Robin afghan for baby Sam.  This cute little dragon comes from here - Free Cross Stitch Charts

I changed the colour of the dragon to blue and simplified the colours used ALOT.  There were 26 different colours used originally which I reduced to about 10!

Here is the whole piece in all it's glory:

This was a lovely afghan from Sewandso,  reasonably priced and very soft.  It specified "18 count evenweave" on the website so my brain said "that mean 36count which is equivalent to 18count aida".  When it arrived it really was 18count evenweave and a very loose evenweave too.  So the choice was to stitch over 2 and get 9count equivalent or stitch over 1.  Which I did.  Moral - read and believe the website.

Dawn was thrilled to bits with the present which arrived this week.  She sent us a lovely photo of Sam with it, I forgot to ask permission to post it here, so I won't just yet.  But his expression is priceless - he's got his arms stretched out wide going "how big is my blanket?"!!

Teresa Wentzler Dragon Rider

Teresa Wentzler Dragon in the Clouds

Stitched on 28 count sparkle evenweave.

Now in my son's bedroom.

Serendipity Designs Chinese Dragon

Serendipity Designs

Chinese Dragon stitched on 14 count aida.