TINY Dragonfly (perfect for earrings) by Kat Miller

TINY Dragonfly (perfect for earrings)

Crochet
December 2012
Size 20 Crochet Thread
Thread ?
15 stitches and 1 row = 1 inch
in Chain 15.
1.0 mm
0 - 1 yards (0 - 1 m)
About 1 to 1.5 inches in size.
English
This pattern is available for free.

These Dragonflies were worked with size 20 yarn and a size 12 crochet hook.

The Dragonfly is worked in one piece, starting at the tip of the tail. The body is just a string of chains. The head/eyes are all stitches worked in the second to last chain of the body/tail. I work a slip stitch around the chain just below the head/eyes, to pull things together tightly.

Wings begin by slip stitching into one side of the body chain, chaining out to the tip of the wing, then working chains and half-double crochets back toward the body. The front wings start in the first easily seen chain of the body below the head/eyes. The back wings start centered between the beginning and ending of the front wings and end in the body chain next to the end of the front wing.

I work the front wings followed by the back wings. The first wing starts by the head and works away from it. The second wing starts straight across from where the first wing ends and works toward the head. The third wing crosses back to the first side and begins in the space between the beginning and the end of the first wing, then the fourth wing again crosses over and starts next to the end of the second wing, ending in the space between the beginning and end of the second wing. In other words, the wings on the left side of the body are worked starting closest to the head and ending working toward the tail, and the wings on the right side of the body are worked from farther away from the head and moving toward the head.