Which Came First, the Dragon or the Eggs?

…Well, that depends on whether you mean which was started first or which was finished first…

I started the dragon first, but we made the eggs while he was like halfway finished.

Because I like to leave the best for last, and also because it works better telling it in this order, I’ll talk about the eggs first. Of course, since me and my cousins are kind of nerdy, we were trying to think of what cool things we could make the Easter eggs look like. I suggested pokeballs. So, I made a masterball and my cousin Bobby made a normal pokeball. My masterball did have the circle-y things on the top, it’s just hard to see them, since I accidentally put them a little too far back.

I then decided to try to make hearthstones… and failed miserably. The first one, I tried using a clear crayon to keep everything but the swirl white, only I obviously missed a lot of the surface… Then I tried using shaving cream, since my mom and aunt were having fun with that method, so I tried coating all but the swirl part in shaving cream and dropping blue food coloring on the exposed part, but the dye bled through the shaving cream a bit… Then I tried making the swirl of food coloring in the shaving cream and dropping the egg on top, but that didn’t work much better… Oh, well.

Then I made an atom egg, and I tried to make a Horde symbol (I realized after the Horde symbol that I’m really bad at drawing in clear wax on eggs and sort of gave up…)

My uncle made some star trek eggs. My other cousin, Rosemarie, had the great idea of outlining the shapes in sharpie!

Rosemarie also made these awesome eggs with that technique!

So now, meet my little dragon- Hearth!

I named him that because he’s the same colors as a hearthstone. Originally, I was making him as more of an ice dragon, but then when I was making the hearthstone eggs, I randomly realized that he was the same color, too. My exclamation was actually met with complete silence, because only my dad had any clue what a hearthstone was, so the rest of my family just thought I was crazy… Anyways, I added the hearthstone symbol later, after I had named him Hearth, because I thought it was appropriate.

I made him using this pattern (which again I wasn't able to find again...), and the only changes I made to it were adding a chin piece (because for some reason I couldn’t find it online when I had found the pattern…) and adding an extra layer to his wings to give them more detail.

I ended up sewing the back white piece to the blue piece only on the bottom, and the two white pieces only on the top, and then I stitched the front/detail work white piece to the blue piece. I’m pretty happy with how it looks! :)

Gotta Catch 'Em All

So, awhile ago, one of my friends asked me to make them a pokéball. And for a few months, all I had done was find a few patterns online. But then after I finished the messenger bag, I thought to myself- why not just make it, so I can cross it off my list? And honestly, it didn’t take very long at all… I’m not sure why I procrastinated so much…

I based my pattern off of this one, which I can't remember where I found...

...but anyways, I really wanted to make it look a little more accurate, and have the black ring in the middle be inverted rather than lying on top of the rest of the ball. So I sort of cut out the shape the black part would remove from the front 2 pieces, and sewed it together from the inside with a running stitch. I also added an extra white circle in the middle for the button.

I hadn’t had enough red felt to make it full-sized, so I tried my best to make it the smaller size that the pokéballs can shrink to for easy transport. I’m rather pleased with how it turned out. This is the modified pattern I made.

Better Late Than Never...

 So, this bag should definitely not have taken as long as it did to finish… I mean, I had it 99% of the way done by the end of February break, but then somehow I couldn’t find the time or motivation to finish it until now… And it’s also a now very belated birthday present for one of my friends; hopefully she won’t mind all that much.

I made it using this pattern. It was a lot simpler of a design than I expected it to be. Well, except for the fact that I only had little squares of fabric in the colors I wanted to make it from, so I had to piece a lot of them together… But I’m very happy with how it turned out, especially since it’s the first messenger bag I’ve ever made!