Baby Dragon Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Heres a chubby baby dragon and hes sitting on a tiny grassy mound with both wings folded in close. Big round eyes look up and off to one side. Tiny horns curl back from the top of his head. A row of soft blue spines runs down his back and tail, and a bronze tummy plate sits proud in the centre of his chest like a little shield.

Thirteen thread colours fill him out. Teal makes up most of the scale work at 3,238 stitches across the body and 2,058 on the wings. Sky blue carries the belly fade and warm brown handles the centre plate at 929 stitches. Soft peach lines the inner wing membrane. Black does the linework, eye outlines and pupils, and white catches the eye highlights so he ends up looking sweet, not scary.

I drew this favourite little fella with nursery and toddler-room pieces in mind, hes a fantasy creature but the colour palette stays calm and warm rather than bright primary. Fantasy-fair vendors started ordering reprints after a gen-con shop tagged me in october. They said their kid customers been loving dragons since they could talk and the soft teal version was way more their vibe than a fierce red dragon would have been.

Best stitched on cream cotton, sage jersey, oatmeal fleece or pale grey fabric. The colour story works on natural light backgrounds where the teal can read true. Skip stark white because the warm tummy plate and blue spines wash out next to bright white. Skip dark navy or black aswell, the teal will lose its character and read flat.

Density is gentle on this one because hes a kids piece. 17k stitches on the small size, 46k on the largest. Back with mid-weight cutaway on knits and fleece. Hoop firm and slow your machine on the wing membranes, the layered teal and peach satin needs steady tension. Find me on facebook messenger if your machine throws an error code.