120cm (4’) long, 47 pieces and 14 balls of yarn!

This dinosaur was all made freehand without a pattern, just a diagram of a Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus skeleton I printed from Google Image Search and a very rough scale, where 1cm on the printout = 8cm of crochet. I took a lot of anatomical liberties, some for aesthetics (e.g. the legs, my first try had more accurate shapes but didn’t look right) and some for practicality (e.g. the nodules on the vertebrae, which were too numerous to make individually and turned into a ruffle to give the appearance of nodules).

It’s composed of single crochet worked in spirals, with a few bits of slip stitching and half double crochet to make curves. The eye sockets are supported by a ping pong ball cut in half, to keep them concave, otherwise it’s all just yarn and stuffing. I hung it from a few tiny hooks in the ceiling with invisible mending thread, and I think the result is very handsome :)