This is daily make #3. I am still cheating, because it took me a few days to make. For this one I worked from memory (unlike the Brimstone Butterfly), so it would be my impression of a dragonfly. That way there’s less pressure to get it “right”.

However, I decided that I needed some dark, iridescent, faceted beads for the eyes. I’d either seen them somewhere in the house or totally imagined them, so at least an hour went into searching every bead stash in the place* to try to find them. No joy, but I found these earrings (yep, I used to wear them) and took a couple of the beads off. Then I decided that the beads looked crap and buttons were surprisingly way better anyway.

Been wanting to use yarn on the left (Sirdar Firefly) for ages. Seemed ideal for dragonfly wings. The yarn on the right is some sparkly crap I bought for making Christmas things.

His eyes come from a bag of random buttons. No two are exactly the same, so these were the closest matching pair I could find. Not sure why I decided on purple.

His wings are ok. I think this yarn is prettier before it is crocheted. I used treble crochet to give it some lightness, but I still didn’t get the transparency I wanted.

I slip-stitched across his body to crochet on each leg, so they’re all done in one go, instead of stitching six on separately.

Another look at the end result.

Into the daily make jar it goes. When I have enough I may do a bit of yarnbombing.

* There are many. So many.