Embroidered Dragon #1

The next phase of my dragon blanket project involves interpreting drawings into embroidery. On this one I chose to use a plaid fabric for the wings, to fill in the space quickly, and provide an interesting pattern. I satin-stitched the sections of the dragon's stomach, and chose to outline the rest of the dragon, to keep it from being too heavy. I also back-stitched around the edge of the wings- they are attached with the glue from Wonder Under, but it is ultimately going to be on a baby blanket, and needs to be able to be washed in a standard washer/dryer, so I decided it would be smart to double ensure that the wings weren't going to peel off. My friend NSNC drew the dragon for this square.

Cross-Stitch Complete!

Yay! All of the dragons for the baby-sized dragon quilt that will be cross-stitched are done (except for the French knot eye on the bottom left purple one- I swear I'll get to it)! The other dragons in the pattern book are a bit too ambitious, or too large for these squares for this project... or else they're the single Asian-style snake dragon with no bordering that would look totally out of place on this project. I finished (mostly) the purple dragon this morning, and started in on the next phase of the project- embroidering dragons based on drawings, with cloth wings appliqued. Pictures soon!