Anyone who knows me well, whether in stitching or just in general, knows my love of Dragons and all things fantasy. One of my very first attempted pieces was Teresa Wentzler’s Castle, after all! On the less blended version of dragons of the same era, there were the adorable chubby little dragons by Jennifer Aikman-Smith, designing under the name Dragon Dreams.
Snowball Fight is a project I adopted many years ago, long before my accurate record-keeping about my projects. My first photo of it is back in 2012, so I’m going to assume I adopted it a couple years before that. Sadly I don’t remember who I adopted it from. (sorry about that!)
Regardless of the actual date – it’s definitely an older piece in my stash, and it really doesn’t need to be. It’s not that big. Like so much of my stitching… momentum just kinda died for a while with motherhood. But that’s the beauty of stitching. It can be picked back up at any time.
The version of the piece that I adopted is on a piece of 28 ct evenweave. It’s not exactly the color that I would have chosen as a fresh start… I probably would have done something closer to the original blue you see above. But I picture the background color in the version I’m stitching as the inside – or a rock wall near – a dragon’s cave. It’s a couple of dragon kids playing in the snow, as all kids in colder climates love to do. Who knows if Momma Dragon was making sure they stayed close to home and took this “photograph” against the rocky cliff?
The last time I worked on this, I got most of the work you see here done on the right-hand dragon. It’s a decently quick stitch with a mix of DMC, satin thread (for the tail) and some fluffy red whisper thread for upcoming scarves, which I’ll do last. This is a possible finish for this year. I’m probably about 2/3rds done at this point. I’ll have to see where I’m at after a couple nights of focus on it – probably this upcoming weekend!
Until next time… happy stitching!
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I agree, that, while the fabric is stunning by itself, it’s not what comes to mind first with a wintery piece like this. Still, it works! The hatchlings are so cute.