Here be dragons!

So Kathy & I took an outing to JoAnn's yesterday. We had my kids with us, which made it extra fun. My son always insists on having his own cart, so each of us had to push a separate cart with a kid in it. This led to lots of silly hide & seek action with shopping carts. Good fun was had by all. Then we actually did the shopping. I saw the little pig in Kathy's amigurumi book & decided that I must make it for Julia. (If you know anything about my daughter, you know that this is indeed appropriate. She eats a LOT!)

Of course, I couldn't buy stuff to make something for her without asking Dallan what he wanted also. I tried to sell him on a dog or an elephant. You know, something that was already IN the book. Would that do? Nope. "Iiiiii waaaaaaaaant....a DWAGON!" I look at Kathy as if to say "Wow, I have a mixture of pride and dread right now!" I of course have to learn to crochet so that I can make him this dragon.

So I started poking around & found what I think are some decent contenders. What do you think?

Dragon A Pretty cool looking, but not quite what I was going for. I'm thinking more along the lines of cute, more amigurumi. (From what I understand from the bit of reading I've done is that the emphasis is on "cute")

Finger Puppets Okay, this one, again not what I'm going for, but I had to share, and I might just try to make them anyway. How cool are they? The little knight & the princess?! Those are so awesome!

Dragon B This one I think with the colors I bought, could be made to look really fun. He's definitely the front runner.

Dragon COkay, so this one is another "just had to share" because it's not actually a pattern, but I LOVE him! It's breathing fire! Check it out.

Now I just have to learn to crochet & I'll be good to go.