While I was looking after my table at the NEOS show, someone came up to me and asked if I had any embroideries of dinosaurs, as she had a young relative who loved them. I had to admit that dinosaurs didn’t feature in my repertoire of designs, but after some discussion we decided that dragons ran a close second, and dragon designs might be acceptable to a young boy with a taste for huge, monstrous creatures
As it happens, I had done a series of dragons some years ago and three of them presented themselves as possible dinosaur substitutes. So I stitched them out and sent them to her. I believe she intends to make a cushion out of them, and I hope that the result will be one satisfied small boy
As good as dinosaurs?
I suppose that I could consider dinosaurs as subjects for embroidery, but in the first place they have rather blobby, clumsy, undefined shapes, and then of course they don’t come in bright colours – or at least not as far as we know. So perhaps I’ll stick to dragons for the time being
I think the middle dragon would be suitable for a dinosaur replacement. He has the spikes on his back similar to a dinosaur. He also has nice claws and teeth. And, he does look scary.
These dragons are fantastic! Much better than blobby dinosaurs. 😉