Dragons for a Fully Finished Friday April 2026

 is something that comes up on both Facebook groups and I have a feeling there is a blog that promotes that as well.

So my dragons, from the WOX and designed by Anne Stokes, the backstitch on the teal dragon was somewhat slower going than on the blue. Nothing to do with the change in thread , it just was.

The eyes were supposed to be French knots but instead I just did little black stitches and a teeny stitch of gold blending filament. I may have mentioned before that I have a Little BIT of gold blending filament.

I had decided that behind the warm toned linen I would put some gold card. Actual I started out thinking I would use some dark gold sparkly wrapping paper. and that looked rather good the sparkle came through in a delightful manner. But, you could feel that but coming couldn't you, I was a bit concerned the glittery part would come off the paper and do weird things to the fabric over time. So time to hunt for the gold card, I was pretty sure I had some, and indeed I did.

If you have visited before then you know I save stuff, I make do and mend and recycle where I can. Therefore it will not be a surprise that the gold card had a life before adding to this piece.  It was the top of a box of chocolates from Thorntons that a former team leader and his wife gifted me many years ago.  Thanks Ian and Sue, the box has extended the life and usefulness of that gift past the consumption of the chocolates.

The wide frame I has was rejected and became the home for an earlier finish, as per my earlier post and this thinner frame with a touch of gold felt as if it fitter both the frame and its intended destination much better.

I like the changes I made to the material used, the colour of the knotwork and the thread count that let me use an 8" square aperture for it,

I think it goes well with -la-sacpigliata- Knot, just a Tree, my Anne Stokes print my BFF gave me, the dragon mirror my pen pal gave me, the Korean lady candle sconce and dragon mirror I carved.

The shapes and colours and of course dragons together make me happy.