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Hello, my name is Dionne and I have been crafting for a very long time. As a very young child my mother tried to teach me to knit, it was a disaster. However, it must have sparked an interest in making things and, partly to prove that I was not totally useless and partly because I really wanted to make things, I taught myself to crochet. Over the years I have developed a love of cross stitch and all types of paper craft ..... I eventually even taught myself to knit.


I am married to a very understanding man, thank goodness, because I spend all my time either crafting, thinking about crafting or talking about crafting. I am hopeless at housework and dinner is often late!


Thank you for visiting my blog.


Dionne

Monday, 15 July 2019

My First Flight

Do you remember my post about Unicorns, where I explained that the collective noun for a group of Unicorns is a Blessing? Well, today I have a group of Dragons to share with you and I have discovered that I am spoilt for choice as to what to call them. Among the collective nouns for Dragons we have a flight of Dragons; a weyr of Dragons; a school of Dragons; a doom of Dragons; and a wing of Dragons. Also, baby Dragons are called whelps, and are born in nests known as roosts. When they reach adolescence, they are called fledglings. Who knew that there is so much information out there on something which is mythical?

You may have spotted that this my dragons have a striking similarity to the Unicorns, that is because the knitting pattern is from the same website - 'Knitting by Post' .  This pattern is called 'Dave the Dragon' and is available from Ravelry.


As you can see from the dark red dragon, the dragons in this pattern, have a rather silly looking sticky out tongue, which, between the two of us, I did not really like ...


So, I tried making the tongue on my next Dragon slightly shorter, but I was still unhappy with the look.  What do you think?


In the end I dropped the tongue and added nostrils, as you can see in this mint coloured Dragon.  (I quite liked the nostrils, so I went back and added them to the dark green and red Dragons.)


I next made a yellow Dragon with black spikes.  After all, who can say what colour Dragons should be?


Finally, my favourite, a baby blue Dragon with dark blue spikes and sparkly white wings.


I almost forgot to tell you that I made the Dragons because I felt that little boys would probably not want a Unicorn for Christmas.  So all the young boys in the family will be getting either a Dragon or a Dinosaur (spoiler alert) for Christmas .


I hope you have a great week.


Dionne

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6 comments:

  1. crafty-stamper15 July 2019 at 14:05

    awww I love the cute Dragons and all the info---anyway whos says they are not real lol
    Carol x

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    1. Dee's Craft Room15 July 2019 at 15:43

      Hi Carol

      When I wrote it I just knew I was going to get called on whether Dragons are real or not - in fact, I originally wrote 'something which is not real' and I changed it for that very reason.

      One of the things I really enjoyed about making these Dragons, Unicorns, and even the yet unposted Dinosaurs, is how I could use-up any of my yarns because there are no rules about their colour, they could be just what I wanted.

      Have a great week.

      Dionne x

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  2. crafty-stamper19 July 2019 at 20:16

    I am very predictable!!! lol and I love Dragons and great to use up your oddments
    Carol x

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    1. Dee's Craft Room19 July 2019 at 21:27

      Ha ha, have a wonderful weekend my friend.

      Dionne x

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  3. Mrs Beez21 July 2019 at 09:30

    Aww - I love these guys, again you have given them little personalities. I love them all, but the face of the white and green one is irresistable. I think I prefer them without their tongues too. Both they and the unicorns are sure to be a huge hit at Christmas. xxx

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    1. Dee's Craft Room21 July 2019 at 12:18

      Hi Lisette

      They are a great set of patterns, aren't they? I find it hard picking a favourite, some days it is the blue one and others the yellow and sometimes the mint. Me and Mr D disagreed about whether the nostrils are an improvement, but I felt the face needed something once I dropped the tongues. I couldn't show the wings very well, but they look really good close-up.

      Thank you for dropping by.

      Dionne xx

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