I mentioned the other week that I had taken on a quilt commission. A former coworker reached out to me and asked if I would be able to make a quilt for her first grandchild (who is due in March). She had only three requirements – that it be mainly green and yellow… and incorporate dragons!

DRAGONS???? My favourite! And I had just the perfect fabric.

See that centre fabric? Could she have made a better request? I’ve had that dragon fabric for ages, just waiting for the perfect project. Since I had dragons on the fabric, I could have gone with simple stars or something. But what’s the fun in that? So I went searching for dragon patterns. It didn’t take long to find this one.

So just after the new year, I got to work. I’m trying to devote one day each weekend to sewing. So two Saturdays ago, I got to cutting. And it took FOREVER!!!!!! OMG, there are like a million pieces in this pattern. By the time it was done, there was barely any time left for sewing.

But I just had to get something done, so I decided to just do the first part, which was completing the head. The pattern puts a sleepy eye on by appliqué, but I’m going to embroider it.

This past Saturday, I was determined to finish the rest of it. So we made a foot…

Lemmy was quite impressed.

And then we made another foot.

And this foot looked suspiciously like Rupert’s back foot. (could he be a dragon in disguise???

And then it was time to make the wings.

The first one went just fine. But I ran into a little hiccup when I started on the second. The pattern does the wings, legs and spikes all in different colours. But I decided I wanted them to all be the same colour -yellow. That is… until I realized the second wing overlaps the back leg… so same colour wasn’t going to cut it.

To say I was annoyed at myself was a bit of an understatement. It was already late in the afternoon, so I decided to put it into a time out for the rest of the night, and I started again fresh the next morning.

A little cutting, a little sewing…

And we had a new wing in dark blue!

And then soon after, we had another. And our dragon was starting to look like a dragon. And you can see the dragon inspectors were doing a very thorough job.

After that, there was just a tail to make…

Then it was just a matter of sewing it all together.

The boys were pleased with the final result… I think.

When Dave and I were thrifting in Chatham the other weekend, we stopped at Lens to see if I could find something for the back. And boy did I!

How cute is that? And flannel too, so just perfect for a cozy baby quilt. The binding is a diagonal stripe I’d bought ages ago with the plan to use it to bind something. (I have several striped fabrics I’ve bought specifically to use as binding.)

Now… I have three tops ready for quilting! I guess I better make a date with Mom!