I don’t usually do weird crafts. I make normal things, like bags and cushions, clothes for myself and the boys. I make blankets that don’t ever get finished and occasionally I make pictures out of felt.
Sometimes however, I am required to make something peculiar.
There are two contenders for the title of weirdest thing I have ever made and I can’t choose between them!
The first is this. It is a hobby dragon.
A couple of years ago, Boy 2 announced that he wanted a hobby dragon for Christmas. I had never seen a hobby dragon anywhere. Horses, and unicorns that were clearly aimed at little girls, but no dragons.
As I couldn’t find a hobby dragon anywhere, I decided to make one.
I drew a pattern based on the shape of hobby horses’ heads. The head is made from 2 pieces of green sequinned fabric. The eyes and the fire from its mouth were made from felt left over from another project. The inside of the ears are red satin, left over from the bridesmaid’s dress my mum made for my best friend when Husband and I got married.
I appliqued the eyes on and I sewed the fire into the seam while I was sewing up the head. 
I stuffed it with polyester filling. Then I added the ears last and sewed them to the outside of the head.
Lastly I put the head on the pole. I cut a groove round the pole near the top, then rearranged the filling inside the head. Using strong thread, I sewed around the opening of the head and tied it on to the pole.
The other contender is a beard I made for Boy 3. His class at school had a Wild West Day. The children were encouraged to come to school dressed up as cowboys or Native Americans. Boy 2 refused to dress up, so that was an easy costume to sort out! As we are avid watchers of the TV show Mountain Men, it was decided that Boy 3 should go as a little mountain man.
I had some fleece fabric in my fabric hoard, left over from these dinosaur hats I made a long time ago! I cut two strips and cut them into fringes. I then sewed the fringes to a pair of tracksuit bottoms.
The hat he had already.
The tricky bit was the beard. Unfortunately I didn’t write it down as I was crocheting it, otherwise I’d put the pattern on here!
I used a looped stitch that I found in my wonderful 1970s crochet book (I’ve written about that here!) and it attaches to his ears by chain stitch loops.
I used blue sparkly yarn, also left over from another project, possibly an unfinished one. I know beards are not usually blue, but it was the closest colour I had to beard colour.
I was pleased the results!
Unfortunately I don’t have any better photos as the beard, which usually lives in the dressing up box, has disappeared in the tip that is the boys’ bedroom.
What is the weirdest thing you have ever made?
The dragon is gorgeous! But I think the beard wins the title of the weirdest craft.
The beard is pretty weird!
That’s a sparkly hobby horse! Thanks for linking up at the Stitch It, Blog It, Share Link Party. I hope youβll join us every Sunday night at 7 with more of your creative sewing projects.
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Fantastic! I want a dragon!!!
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Not weird at all – they’re great. I wish I was good at crafts! #MMWBH
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So cute! Love the flame from his mouth.
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My son wanted to be a “two by four” for Halloween when he started Kindergarten. That was when there were still paper bags for groceries. So that’s what I made it out of – he was skinny and tall so it took three bags glued and taped together. It was easy to transport on the bus! His teacher still talks about that as the most unusual costume in all her years of teaching.
That’s really funny!
My kids havent asked me to make anything weird yet! I dont know whether to feel left out or relieved! Lovely hobby dragon!
It might be my kids Louise, the one who asked for the hobby dragon also wanted metal and wood so that he could build himself a spaceship!
Love the dragon, all sparkly and green not to mention fire! Can imagine much loved
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They are genius. I love the dragon and what a clever idea to go as a mountain man! I bet everybody like his *costume*. π
Thank you! The beard went down very well!
I love that dragon! Super cute! I think you should make one in a sea horse shape. π Following you from the Sew Many party.