The dragon is done and see what's next!

Impossible to not get glare on the sequins... He's pinned now to have a good blocking before he's off to Arlene in Australia...

I used as many different materials I could from my stash..  I especially like the Krienik gold bands of satin stitch on his neck... One tip I forgot to mention last time is to use clusters of beads to hide a difficult transition... I did that here with the finial on his tail... And folding a braid in half along his spine worked well also.. I took him along to work on several times this week and he always got lots of attention....

Here is my rough sketch and a few thoughts for my "perfume block" for Arlene in Australia...I'll try as many techniques and materials on this block as possible at it will be the next to last block.

I'm loving the layering of fabrics and cutting away so will do that on the bottle. This has been a new technique for me. It's a nice alternative to working off block and appliqueing a feature on.  I'll add more detailed photos as I do the layering this time.

I'm doing the bottle and flower cluster larger that I usually would but I want things to be large enough to try many things... The "A" initial may or may not remain... I can hardly wait to start with the gold ribbons as I have used very few so far in this goldwork challenge...

I'm ready to go back to regular crazy quilting but I know all this experimenting with gold materials will definitely make a change in my work.......