Hannon - Stair with Hidden Dragon

The seventh design - what is lurking, hidden from sight, is becoming clearer. As we go down the stair to the bottom level, we begin to see… These stairs defeated me. I worked on them and worked on them and worked on them. They still don’t have enough height. I could have pushed it further for my height or painted on a deep enough shadow for the treads. But more height for the landing above the dragon was going to swallow him whole in a dark, deep shadow. I wanted him to be seen - at least partially - and not completely disappear into the resultant murk.

I really struggled with the scale of the stair. How wide should the stair be, how deep each tread. How many steps. The stair in the house is truly grand. It takes up space. It fills space. And my stair just doesn’t even come close to that. So this was me trying something new - and it not really working - but that is ok. Because when you try something new - even if it doesn’t work - you are learning and improving, and the next time will be better.

Getting back to my previous comments about scale, this stair being a bit “small” and “skimpy”, does give the dragon the appearance of size. The dragon really is too big to be in the house.

See design in my Spoonflower Shop

Stairs design with coordinating fabrics. The Dragon of Hannon quilt fabric collections features designs inspired by the Hotel Hannon in Brussels, Belgium. Available at my Spoonflower shop on cotton quilting fabric at 18 inch repeat, and on wallpaper at 24 inch repeat, which is perfect for dollhouses at 1:12 scale. Also nice as a hero or art panel in a quilt. Please keep in mind that if you purchase on wallpaper, you need at least 2 ft of wallpaper. The “sample” size is only 1 ft of length and you will only get half the picture (vertically).