Hi everyone! And happy year of the dragon! 🐉
I’ve got a new pattern that I’ve been working on 🥰
A hydra was a very high-ranking result from my pattern poll last year, but things didn’t quite go as planned and I wasn’t able to make one. So I made it the number one priority this year!
This version of the multi-headed monster from ancient Greek legend has a sitting pose with a big body and long slender neck. If you make it with just the one head, you’ve got yourself an awesome dragon! It would be perfect for those more interested in a “realistic” looking dragon with a smaller head. From there, you can add two more heads on the side for a 3-headed hydra, or add two more heads in the back for a 5-headed hydra! Give it horns and wings and you’ve got a perfect 5-headed dragon for Tiamat!
Using wire in the heads is completely optional. If you stuff them well enough they’ll stay okay on their own. But if you do add wire, then the heads are posable and can be extra expressive! Add that to the fact that it comes with 9 different expressive eyes and you can make one impressive creature! That said, this is a more difficult pattern at 8/10 difficulty. I’ve gotten requests for more challenging patterns before, and this is certainly one of them 
As usual, the pattern comes with applique templates for the different faces as well as the inner wing details. But if you have an embroidery machine, you can buy the embroidery files separately. All the pieces are either 4×4 hoop friendly or have separate options for working with 4×4 hoops.
