Guardian

Reworked: I took some of the advice about making the baby look less like a packet of lunch. Because the baby was painted on pelmet weight vilene before being applied, it was difficult to work out how to add rockers seamlessly. However, I have painted lace onto the edges of the baby blanket. Perhaps that will do the trick.

Here is a detail shot. let me know what you think.

Original post:

Here is a dragon in the oriental style. I "saw" him in the anomalies of the hand-dyed fabric. However, trying to draw him free hand resulted in a rather odd shape. It is difficult to look at because it ISn't like what is in my head. So a goal this year is to work out how to draw dragons better. However, in a way it fits with some of the naive shapes of the dragon/lion sorts of monsters that are seen in oriental art.

As you can see the analogous colours are centred on green - yellow green - and even blue-green threads. The tension is created with the baby in the basket in front of the dragon. Will the baby be harmed? Or is the baby under the protection of the "monster"?

I used examples of stitching on "dragon coats" for the quilting patterns .