Baby Dragon

I just participated in my very first craftster swap and it seems my partner likes fantasy and best of all, i love fantasy too! She did say she love dragons so i thought of making her 5 little baby dragons, Yet i wanted it to have a little of artsy touch and cutesy feeling of amiguruminess... so i played around with yarn to create the mini head of a dragon and it felt soooo cute.

Cant believe it took me 2 whole day to "design and create" and now that i have the pattern, it takes less then 5 hours to make one... + - the in-between pause break i had to run off too. This little one is as big as my palm and just too adorable to stare at hehe, im very pleased on how this turn out.

Mommy Mommy!! I want a hug!! Uwaaah.... uwaaah i want a hug!! (Its too small for a cuddly hug though :P)

(The bell is kinda addition so it looks cuter :P Its up to you to accessorize)

The Smaller Version is here : Mini Keychain Baby Dragon
Okay okay... here is how to make,




the pattern :

 

Updated : Added the total stitches at the corner in RED. Please do give any other suggestion if this aint fitting as well. Thank you :) oh and will update the rest later, not enuf time... chao

Note 1 : Row 12... the slip stitch should be the jaw area, there fore... From row 11 end... Add in extra 2sc dec if it didnt reach the center of the back head till its equally centered so when you move on to row 12, the slip stitch will be falling on a curve like area for the jaw (The mouth area

Note 2 : If its too complicated, You can substitute row 12 with (sc, dec in all) and row 13 with (dec in all)

Note 3 : The last few rows after row 13 is all dec, finish it off and slip the yarn inside as it wont be used anymore.


It will look like duck a bit in the start, but dont worry keep up with it.

It should look something like this below, just decrease till no hole and hide the extra yarn off.



The Body is made from bottom to top, so its easy to sew up the head with the remaining yarn at end,

 

Note : The body is plain, so i didnt alter anything here... but the yarn should be long enough to sew the head in place

Sew in the Tail first as it will be easier to hold the Baby Dragon
The tail is a bit confusing as i worked in plain straight sc turning into circle then sewing it up so it looks pointy and cute. (I know my brain is working weirdly... i didnt like doing magic rings and curving them up into shape... as its not as curvy and pointy as i liked... well if i have the mood i will do that pattern too) ... (Update : The magic ring tail is Tail type 2)

The tail is pretty confusing abit, but if you imagine a circle, divided to A as the Upper part and B as the lower part, well i used the circle as the size of how big the tail should start off. The A part is always in increase mode as it will curl outwards while B as the lower part of the circle is the decreases where it will curl inwards.

It says imaginary divider (cant see clearly)

okay for the pattern, its not the usual one as i dont know how to explain this properly...

Tail

Tail : Type 1 (Wont do this in new Pattern Look as its based on feel)
row1 : 26 or 27 chain, connect to the start of the chain to create a loop,
row 2: 26 sc <-- make sure the loop is not twisted row 3: [2 sc, dec] x5, [sc,inc]x3 row 4: [sc,dec]x5, [2 sc, dec]x3 row 5: 5 dec, 4 sc, 4 inc, 4 sc row 6: 2 dec, Finish off and start sewing as the thread should be in the middle


Tail : Type 2

Thats what the second type looks like, still i prefer the first much platter and pointier as the second one is soooo hard to start off with.

Then the arms and foot...

There are several type of wings i played around with, as i didnt like the first few types, so i ket on making different ones :D So choose which you prefer :

1. Flappy Type Dragon Wings

Dragon Wings x 2
1		7sc, chain and turn
2		5sc, inc, chain and turn
3		sc, inc, 4sc, slip stitch, chain and turn
4		sc in second stitch, 4sc, inc, sc, chain and turn
5		sc, inc, 5sc, chain and turn
6		sc in second stitch, inc, 3sc and continue sc around till the end of first row

2. Cute Type Dragon Wings

Dragon Wings x 2 second type
1		Magic Ring 4 chain
2		sc, inc, sc, inc
3		sc, sc, inc, inc, inc, inc
4		inc, inc, sc x8
5		sc x 4, dec x 4
6		dec x 4
7		whip stitch the sides up according to shape

3. Sweet Fairy Dragon Wings  AND Few Other Wings are Blogged out Separately. Here.








(This is from the comments below)

1. Use a similar color pen and draw the lines both side so you know where the ridges grow out. (usually its The eye brow area)

2. The fierce eye ridge is started with slip stitch always at near the nose or eye brow area(ignore the hanging yarn at the slipstich or hide it inside the head)...
or
You can just tie the yarn on the edge real tight so it gives a depth (carefull can ruin the yarn/head)

3. Like normal SC (it is normal single stitch, not surface stitch or chain stitch, its single stitch from the pen line area you draw as guidelines earlier)

4. keep sc on the guideline to the other end, slip stich and end it off... (this will be the red dragon look)
if you turn from the last slip stitch and SC back to the start but stop at the first SC with a slip stitch again... turn and back to the end and slipstich hide the yarn in bewteen the first two rows you made and into the head.

 Here is a close up of Yellow dragon ridge... 

The yellow dragon ridge is kinda the same as the red, but the yellow dragon have 4 rows and i lost the scribbles i had for that. I think it had 3 or 4 rows but the last row is only from the middle of the rows to the back of the head. When working on the other side of the ridge flap, i used slip stitch to get to the middle. Though there might have 1 or 2 inc or dec but i cant remember where exactly and it was made out of mistake actually. Here i just update a close up picture, that i had before it was gone. 

Oh to those who wish to use my pattern for profit and publications please do get my permission. But if its for charity project, please use it as you wish, and please show me what you have done with it :D For any other usage of my pattern please do contact me :)