Showing posts with label cross stitch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cross stitch. Show all posts

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Mario cross stitch

I'll have to post photos of the rest, but as you can probably tell I like to create things that are based on video games. I generally create things with the melty beads (as E likes to call them), but sometimes I'm feeling like I want to take a bit more time, do something a bit more calming and repetitive. Enter cross stitching. I've finished a couple of cross stitch pieces, but nothing crazy. I'll admit I still have a great one of three wise frogs...with only one frog completed. I'm sure I will finish it one day, but for now that poor frog is covering his eyes in shame. Shame! Anyway. I picked an amusing pattern that I found on Etsy. But then I thought to myself, hey, this is the internet, I bet I could find this for free! Thanks to Sprite Stitch, I found it! Hooray! Came with a DMC thread guide, so I was off to Joannes to grab some Aida and some colors. Got home and got to it.

Here is the piece in progress:



While I was making this G came up and asked what "I'd Hit That" meant. Ummm...well. I told him that it meant I would hit that question block to get the coins. Yeah!!

A few days later and it is complete!



For such a simple design, it took me a lot more time than I thought. But, it was my first one in a while. I could have perlered it in a couple of hours, but I like this. I think I'm going to frame it and give it to a friend for his new condo. Because everyone needs something cross stitched in their home, right?