Dragon du jour

On finding a shirt with dragons printed on it - which came from a charity shop aeons ago - I decided to make a stuffed toy for the Grandbaby, with tabs for possible holding on to (when she gets to the holding-on stage) but in the meantime solely for my own gratification. I haven't actually made much for this child - no blankets or quilts, no knitted or sewn garments - goodness why, she has other grandmothers who like doing that!

And she has a slew of toys. Already.

But here is The Dragon as printed and as cut out with trial tabs -

 A little revision was needed. The tag on the tail is one of my "Travel Lines London" tags, used for the travel-lines tote bags and tool rolls, two projects currently in abeyance. (But not entirely moribund!)

The revised version has all the tabs in sensible places, and has been stuffed -

And finally - a line of a sort of blanket stitch strengthens the inner curves, and the eyes have been defined by dense stitching -

In fact the second eye was added with stitch. He (she??) looks very gung-ho! Hmm, Gung Ho is quite a good name for a dragon, if a name is ever needed for this one.