So, I'm making my little brother a Jayne hat for Christmas ( Read more... )

A number of people have emailed me saying that they liked Leaves in Relief, but preferred the sleeves on the man's sweater shown in the article.

I didn't happen to write down exactly what I did for these sleeves. But here's the idea:

( Sleeve idea )

Before I made Alya, I made a practice dragon. Here are the instructions for the head. (The body is basically a tube, which gets wide, and has hdc instead of sc at the front to make it curve.) ( Beaded dragon head instructions )

( What I actually did for the first bit of Alya's wing )

( Version 1 )

This was inspired by something that used to be posted here. The pictures have since gone away.
Pictures of the completed dragon are here.
( General notes and beaded stitches )