Baby Snow Dragon, some assembly required:



I managed to finish crocheting all the pieces for the Baby Snow Dragon last night and began stuffing some of them but didn't have the energy to finish.

As you can see, there are a lot of little bits there. For me, one of the more tiresome parts of the process is sewing all of them together (especially sewing up the openings).

I did make the "eye capsules" that the pattern includes, but I'm seriously considering leaving them off - I think it will be cuter without them.

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Oh, and Karin, thanks for the links. I really liked the comic strip about the Owly book...the "dialog" in the books is done exactly like that - it's all symbolic. (for some reason the page isn't working right now or I'd link to it.)

(I kind of wish I had the capacity to post a speech-bubble with a smiley face in it to indicate my response to the comic strip about the Owly book. But then again, maybe that would be a bit recursive.)

And for the other link ....I have a copy of that book. Haven't made anything out of it yet, though...one thing that bugged me just a tiny bit is that they will say in the front part, "Look what you can do with a glove!" and then in the back, the pattern shows it takes a PAIR of gloves.

(That said - when they start trotting out the cheap knit gloves this fall at the dollar stores and the like, I may have to buy some for some of the animals in there.)

The book makes me smile especially because it reminds me a bit of my childhood, again - I used to make a lot of stuffed animals out of socks. (I used to have even an anteater I made out of an old sock... I cut a thin strip of the ribbing and turned it into his "snout," and I used a piece of red perle cotton with a knot tied on the end for the long thin tongue, and I made the puffy tail-shape by gathering a toe and stuffing it lightly. It was actually pretty clever. I wonder if it still exists...one of these days when I'm up visiting my folks I should break into the boxes of my stuff that are stored away and collect up the stuffed toys I made when I was a child, and bring them back with me. I KNOW I have a little calico camel that I made one summer when I was at my grandma's, and a friendly alligator ditto. [My grandma had all kinds of neat calico scraps that were different from what my mom had, and I would get inspired to make things. The camel came because she gave me a piece of calico that looked like it was printed with very tiny Persian carpets]. In those days I just cut and fitted and made up my own stuff - didn't use patterns. And I sewed everything by hand.)