Sleeping dragon - Brooch

Sleeping dragon little brooch. It can be used as applique or hair accessory or a fridge magnet but I particularly recommend the brooch.... if anyone is still wearing them.

When I was a little girl my mom had quite a collection of different kinds of brooches and I loved them, I loved looking at them, wearing them and buying them for her on every occasion. They are a special kind of jewelry for me, my mom is kind of a classy lady and her accessories were classy and boring for my, but brooches... they were different they could have all the shapes: animals, flowers, abstract shapes or all of the above all at once and they were still ok to wear. Times changed a bit but my opinion about brooches stayed....

I don't know why the dragon You can say he just appeared on paper one time when I was doodling. All I know is that he looks beautiful on a dark jacket and that I will gladly wear it on any occasion unless my mom steals him for hers collection....

Materials:

• green, red, black yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• brooch or safety pin

 Pattern:

Body - make 1

green yarn

R1: 6 sc in MR (6)

R2: inc around (12)

R3: * sc, inc * X6 (18)

R4: * sc 2, inc * X6 (24)

R5: * sc 2, inc * X8 (32)



We are finished with the circle and will make a dragon's tail now



R6: 5 ch,[ ss in 2-nd ch, ss, sc 2 ] all in chain You made, hdc in base circle















Head - make 1

green yarn

R1: 6 sc in MR (6)

R2: inc around (12)

R3: * sc 3, inc 3* X2 (18)

R4: sc around (18)

R5: sc around (18)

R6: * sc 4, dec * X3 (15)

R7: * sc 3, dec * X3 (12)

R8: sc around (12)

R9: sc 10, ss 2 (12) FO

Sew the head to the body just like You see on the picture on the right.

Nostrils - make 2

green yarn

R1: 3 sc in MR (3)

R2: TURN and create half a circle instead of circle sc 3 (3) FO

Sew the nostrils, to make them even more distinct You can make two little black dots - holes inside with black yarn.

Dragon spikes:

My dragon have 6 spikes:

1 big
2 medium and
3 small ones

Big spike - make 1

red yarn

R1: 4 ch (4)

R2: ss, sc, dc (3) FO


Medium spike - make 2

red yarn

R1: 3 ch (3)

R2: ss, hdc (2) FO


Small spike - make 3

red yarn

R1: 2 ch (2)

R2: ss (1) FO



Sew the spikes in order, the biggest spike is the one closest to head.

Take the black yarn and make the sleeping eyes. I decided to add eyebrows:

Eyebrow - make 2

green yarn

R1: 5 ch (5)

R2: ss, sc 2, ss (4) FO










Sew them a bit above eyes.

Last step is attaching the brooch