Remi’s Dragon Egg
“Remi’s Dragon Egg” is a bonus square, drawn by my 8-year-old son! It is not officially part of my Year of Dragons series, but it is the same size as those squares and Remington did draw it to match those squares. Learn more about that series at https://ashleeslint.com/year-of/2025-year-dragons/.
Did anyone notice my post title refuses to use the apostrophe? URLs don’t use punctuation so I don’t really understand why I can’t include it in the title, but here we are.
My overlay mosaic crochet sample of Remi’s Dragon Egg in the colors he chose.
Child Artist
Although I did 95% of the work associated with this square, Remington was the primary artist. He remembers the design Alice drew when she was younger (Feline the Deer) and he wanted to help me too.
He’s seen me drawing on my computer before and he (gently) pushed himself into my space and took the mouse and drew this. Then I guided him in how we can clean up the image a bit more. He clearly benefitted from my templates and processes (I make it look easy lol), but I still want to support his endeavor.
So, he will receive the profits from the sale of this square!
Purchase Links
Birthday Bonus!
“Remi’s Dragon Egg” is not included in the dragon eBook BUT I have created a special code you can use to download it for free during my birthday sale!
REMIEGG
Valid on Ravelry and my Webshop only; offer ends September 30, 2025. Please don’t feel bad accepting this as a gift – Remington will be happy with 1 or 2 paid sales and ultimately he benefits from every sale I make all the time.
Interlocking crochet sample of Remi’s Dragon Egg crocheted by Nancy McKain.
Overlay mosaic crochet sample of Remi’s Dragon Egg crocheted by Marie Sparks.
Interlocking crochet sample of Remi’s Dragon Egg crocheted by CynCityCrochet.
Wrong Side of Remi’s Dragon Egg
As with all my designs, the right side and wrong side will look different depending on which technique you are using.
Interlocking crochet creates an almost opposite image while overlay mosaic crochet just creates stripes. You can often see a faint illusion of the front.
Right side of the interlocking crochet technique next to the right side of the overlay mosaic crochet technique.
Below those it shows the wrong side of the interlocking and mosaic crochet techniques.
Samples crocheted by CynCityCrochet & Ashlee.
Remi’s Dragon Egg Testers
This bonus square was tested by CynCityCrochet, Marie Sparks, and Nancy McKain.
Thank you!
One image, two crochet techniques.
Important Details for Remi’s Dragon Egg
As with all the dragon squares and all my other deisgns, Remi’s Dragon Egg comes with the fully written pattern and charts for two colorwork techniques: interlocking crochet and overlay mosaic crochet.
Click here to go to my tutorials for these crochet techniques.
Brackets
Brackets are used in the written pattern to indicate repeated sections. See my detailed explanation: https://ashleeslint.com/2020/08/29/brackets-in-crochet-patterns/ or watch it in action with this mosaic crochet sample at https://youtu.be/IW-vtpHTIjs.
Interlocking Crochet
Each dragon square has a chart size of 81 x 81. This means they begin with 40 windows in the foundation row and will finish to about 20″ square.
Interlocking crochet / LFM crochet file includes:
- line-by-line written pattern (view key)
- instructions on reading a chart (view)
- a one-page chart (good for viewing on a screen)
- a four-page chart (better for printing)
Interlocking Crochet Details
- Chart is 81 x 81
- Gauge: 8 (dc, ch) x 8 rows = 4”
- 20″ x 20″ / 51cm x 51cm
- 4.5 mm hook (US7)
- Worsted weight yarn (490 – 565 yards total)
- Main color (MC) (dragon) – 250 yards plus 75 for optional border
- Accent color (AC) (background) – 240 yards
Overlay Mosaic Crochet
The mosaic crochet version of each dragon square is a solid design. I’ve removed the interlocking mesh dots and the unneccessary double-border lines. Read more about the differences at https://ashleeslint.com/tutorials/interlocking-and-mosaic-crochet/.
Click here to learn more about the options for dealing with the cut ends at the end of each row when doing overlay mosaic crochet.
Overlay Mosaic Crochet file includes:
- line-by-line written pattern (view key)
- instructions for optional envelope border (view)
- instructions on reading a chart (view)
- a one-page chart marked with X’s (good for viewing on a screen)
- a four-page chart marked with X’s (better for printing)
Mosaic Crochet Details
- Chart is 77 x 77
- Gauge: 14 sc blo stitches x 15 rows = 4”
- 22″ x 20″ / 56cm x 52cm
- 5 mm hook (H-8)
- Worsted weight yarn (575 – 825 yards)
- Main color (dragon) – 245 yards
- Contrasting color (background) – 330 yards
- Optional envelope border – 250 yards
Are you crocheting one of my designs? I’d love to see it. Tag me on social media or join one of my groups!
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