oh no she didn't just finish the dragon?!

Yes, that's right. The dragon is finally finished! I only take partial responsibility for the delay as there was a hold up with the joints arriving in the mail. I got him done the same day they arrived so I'm pretty sure that makes me an overachiever.

From a distance this little work of art is amazing. If you look closer you might suggest I take some sewing lessons, or point out that his feet are completely different sizes or that his arms come more from the back than his sides and so on and so forth. If you were to pull him apart (which would probably be quite easy to do) you'd see I screwed up the joints on one side and the leg joint is on the arm and vice versa. But all in all, this was really a fun little project, and I learnt a lot. Not least about how I don't follow direction very well. I kept skipping ahead in the pattern and all that did was create more work for me. If you decide to make a dragon, I urge you to follow directions. Sounds simple but not for us overachivers ;)

Here's the little love muffin posing around the house. We are going to call him Toby...

Toby's first words were that he wants a sister, but I have a couple other little side projects in mind first while our dining room table has been taken over my sewing supplies and the hubs isn't complaining. He'll get a sister soon enough. Right now I am I feel like a supermom, crafty-mom-of-the-year and like I really should get some sort of award or trophy for completing this project. But Ryleigh took a good hard look at little Toby and broke an ear to ear grin, and wouldn't you know, that was more than enough for me.