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| Time to take off and fly! |
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| Or not... |
Spring is a time of life; of birth, renewal, and beginning. So this fine spring day seems a good day to start something. So here it is, the PepperCraft blog. The goal is to eventually be able to raise money for various charities by selling crafts and patterns and to help others cultivate their own creative talents. PepperCraft may not yet be ready to fully spread its wings, but everything has to start some where. You have to glide before you fly right?
I'm not actually making any orders yet (swamped with projects already). But, you can still go ahead and "preorder" so I can be planning on making what you want. Anything I've made and posted here (unless otherwise noted) can eventually be ordered.
Right now my focus is more on sharing what I've been doing and developing my skills and new designs.
Now on to Maewyn. Maewyn is named after what is believed to be St Patrick's given name. I decided to look at other people's crochet dragon patterns for inspiration and guidance. I found several good patterns.
There was the popular baby snow dragon by Marjorie Jones. It
is a cute, but very simple pattern. It is great for a beginning
crocheter or someone new to amigurumi (crochet/knit stuff animals)The fierce but friendly dragon pattern by Lucy Ravenscar is also great. It is almost like a winged adult version of the baby snow dragon. It looks a little more complex but still doesn't look to hard.
The wings and the spine were the only thing that I didn't change at least a little bit.
Maewyn is about 8 in long from nose to tail-tip. About half of that is tail.
The following is a list of the modifications to Kati's patterns. I'm sorry I have to be so vague but I cannot put any of the original pattern.
Notes: Because Maewyn is fatter, I used two pipe cleaners in body.
Head: Add three extra stitches to magic ring. Continue increasing and decreases as specified in pattern just with more stitches in each round. This will make a fatter dragon.
For the eyes, if using large beads in round 4 make two small holes
about 3 to 4 st apart. Make the holes by chaining in between your stitches (ex. sc, ch 3, sc). Chain as many as needed to make a hole just big enough for the bead to be pushed through. The bead should fit very snugly. Sew in beads after round 5.
Horns: ch 3, sl st in 3st ch, sc in next chain, hdc in last
Legs (front): skip 4th row (for 4th row do instructions for 5th row and so on till last row)
Legs (back): 1 : sc 5 in magic ring
2 - 4: 1 sc in each sc (5 sc)
5: 2 sc in first two sc, sc in each remaining sc (6 sc)
6: same as 2
7-8: sc in first sc, sc in each remaining sc (8 sc)
Feet(front): 4 sc in magic ring. In next row follow instructions for paws to make toes. Make 4
Feet(back): 6 sc in magic ring. In next row follow instructions for paws to make toes but add one to chain of each toe (also an extra sc). Make 4
The leg wire extends to the tip of the middle toe. Take a tiny piece of wire or pipe cleaner and wrap it around where the side toes go. Sew feet right side to wrong side (or what ever looks best to you) around the leg/foot wire "skeleton". Poke pipe cleaner through leg and sew foot to leg. Put leg wire all the way through body, sew it in place. Sew other foot and leg to other end of pipe cleaner.
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| front feet (left) back feet (right) right/palm side (top) wrong/back side (bottom) |
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