I don’t remember exactly when I started this little guy, all I know is that I found it partly done in a bag by my bed. The tail was finished & part of the body rounds were done.

8/10 - I love Mochimochi but I thought this would be a little cuter if it wasn’t so round. My two favorite dinosaurs are stegosaurus & brontasaurus. I thought this would be a super cute baby blue brontey. I added a few extra rounds for the body. Then I added extra short rows at the chest to make it look like it was a more snake like curved neck. I decreased two stitches on each short row until I had three stitches left in the middle, then worked my way back out all in one row. I added extra rows for the neck doing mirrored decreases along the back of the neck then did some fancy head shaping that I learned doing the gecko (which is where I also learned the short row trick, again that is one of the most technically well designed toy patterns I’ve ever seen & still constantly reference it’s many different fantastic shaping techniques when knitting toys). Added the legs per the pattern & wa-laa!

Follow up: I kept finding baby bronty on the floor, I think the cats were carrying him off to different parts of our house, so I stuck him in my pocket. I went to get my weekly massage & my massage therapist, who also happens to be the mother of my good long time high school friend & family friend, saw me pull it out of my pocket. She said “is that a brontosaurus?! Can I have him??” Then kind of realized what she said & felt bad for asking. I told her she could have him & not to feel bad because it was in my pocket because I kept finding him on the floor. I told her I didn’t have time to put eyes on, but subconsciously I think I liked it better without eyes & she said she liked him that way too because it made him look primal. She put him next to a tiny narwhal & he now lives in her massage room!