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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 29 July 2019

Terrible Lizards

I mentioned the other day that I had a few Dinosaurs to tell you all about.  Well, here we are.

Naturally, I have been researching Dinosaurs, I think we probably know more about Dinosaurs than either Unicorns or Dragons because of all of the evidence that they actually walked the earth. However, did you know that there are many group-terms for Dinosaurs, for instance, a flock, a gaggle, a colony, a murder - these terms are more readily applied to the more bird-like ones? Other collective nouns are a herd, a band, a pride, and a pack - these are more readily used for the larger Dinosaurs.

The word Dinosaur is said the mean 'Terrible Lizard'. Apparently when scientists first discovered Dinosaur fossils, they imagined them to be the remains of huge lizards from the past.


As with both the Unicorn pattern and the Dragon pattern, this one is from 'Knitting by Post' and this one is called 'Dinky Dino Dinosaur' and is also available from Ravelry.  All of my Dinosaurs are made in Double Knit yarn but some have come out larger than others.


I know that I have taken liberties with the colours but no one really knows what colour they were, although probably not peach or violet!


This green one with yellow spikes was my first attempt.


This violet Dinosaur is much smaller than the rest, I think he is quite sweet.


I could tell that I was running out of grey yarn so I gave this one a peach snout to match his spikes, I think he has pulled the look off.


Although my photographs do not give you a clear back view of these dinosaurs I have made mine slightly different to the pattern, they have a double row of spikes down their back so that they more closely resemble a Stegosaurus, as this particular Dinosaur is a favourite of my niece Lucy (can you guess which one she has?).  The remaining Dinosaurs have been put away for Christmas.


I also added nostrils to my bunch, I think it gives their face more character.


Dionne

10 comments:

  1. Gorgeous dinosaurs Dionne they are really cute love the green and yellow one
    Carol x

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    1. Aww, thank you Carol. My favourite is the purple one as he came out quite a bit smaller than the others, no idea why, but is is quite cute as a result.

      Dionne xx

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  2. Thank you for the lovely comment you left on my post
    Carol x

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  3. Thank you Dionne just read your comment about the emerald anniversary-I only knew because I used to make and decorate wedding/anniversary and birthday cakes many moons ago and I had a list of what all the anniversaries meant and still have it in my notebook lol -Got a call from the hosp today and John has his colonoscopy next Monday-so fingers crossed
    carol x

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  4. oops my pic is getting smaller lol x

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    1. Isn't that odd, it must have something to do with my blog .... we'll see if my picture is also small.

      Dionne x

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    2. Nope, perhaps it is you. lol!

      Dionne x

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    3. It is my blog it's a lot smaller on every comment I make on all the blogs -one day soon I will just disappear lol
      Carol x

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    4. Ha ha, just like the Oozlum Bird?

      Dionne x

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