Servo is rather famous on the Sprite Stitch board for making awesome timelapse GIFS of his cross stitch pieces so I figured I’d try doing one of my own. This is my second square that I made for the Child’s Play 2012 Charity Quilt. Enjoy the show.
I need to post a giant catch-up post at some point as well…
Sprite Stitch Board newcomer BenW posted an awesome project (and pattern!) using a quote from Portal 2’s Cave Johnson:
I started Grad School back in August and things have been a whirlwind of activity. I have been crafting but have not had a chance to post about it here. So this is my catch up post! It’s only a few months over due…
So way back in June of 2010 I put together this great template for a cross stitch pattern I wanted to stitch called “Epic Mario Thru the Ages.” I quickly realized that there was NO WAY I had the time or patience to do the piece – it was huge, has tons of colors, and I was working full-time. But I put the image on the Sprite Stitch Board knowing that *someone* would want to do it.
Sure enough – a lot of people showed interest and user Osmosis was good enough to make a pattern based off of my image. A little more than a year later and the first piece was finished by user tetris<3 (who was also nice enough to PM me)!! She posted photos of her finished work (page 7) and made me want to pick up this project again! (someday… maybe).
I’m super impressed by both her talent/persistence/etc and how well the pattern worked. I know there are others out there working on this pattern and I hope her example encourages you to finish (or start) an Epic cross stitch of your own. All photos of the completed pattern are from tetris<3‘s work – please visit the boards if you want the pattern.
– kuja.girl
Moved into my new place about 2 weeks ago (time flies) and I’v been busy cleaning it up and making it my new home. I’ll post some photos of the various craft things I’ve been up to soon.
The Sprite Stitch Board announced their latest contest and I think I’ll participate since it’s pretty damn fitting. The theme is “back to school” and one thing came to mind almost instantaneously. I’m going to try and finish the pattern this weekend and stitch it on my road-trip across country… stitching in the car isn’t easy but it can be done!
It will also make a great apartment warming gift… for myself.
I’ve been AWOL for almost two months, sorry about that. Preparing to move across country means spending the time I have left with friends or packing when I’m not playing games or reading.
Anyhow – finished my second and last Pokemon Patchwork Gym patch sometime in March. It came out pretty good.
Also made a coworker a stuffie to keep her spirits up while she works through some family medical stuff. She’s been out longer than expected so it’s just sitting on her desk for now. I had to relearn how to crochet but I think it was worth it.
Original pattern from More Softies Only a Mother Could Love – except I made it half sized.
I’m going to leave the crafts for a bit to comment on the recent attacks and hacks that have happened to Sony lately. There has been a lot of press coverage blaming Sony for what happened. I understand that people are upset, heck I’ve been part of the PlayStation Network since the ’90’s, but I don’t blame Sony. I blame the hackers (and their customers).
It was going to happen sooner or later and while I wish Sony had taken better precautions and been more forthright with what had happened the fact remains that this is not their fault. Yes, they could have handled it better and sure they could have had better security but are they really to blame?
Nothing is safe online. If your computer is connected to the internet then it is not “safe.” I don’t care what kind of virus scan, firewalls, or other measures you take your data is available to anyone willing to take the time and effort to get at it. Luckily for most of us we do not have much that’s worth that amount of time and effort. Sony’s database was worth the effort – but that’s only because there’s a market (which is another serious issue).
In short: a company can take hundreds of measures and spend lots of money trying to protect their data from hackers but it only takes one successful attack to null all of that effort. It’s a losing battle for the data-holder from the start, the best way to keep safe is to stay under the radar… or offline.
3 more days of work put in got me halfway finished. I washed the Aida cloth so it would make a pretty photo.
Now for the hard part : /
So I started this a while ago but have been pretty busy since I’m preparing for a move across country (2k miles!) and have had the normal spring allergy woes. But I have been working on my patch in the evenings when I manage to stay awake long enough.
This was not an easy patch to design as none of the available backgrounds matched the theme of the girl (pink/psychic) and the purple rocks only kind of match the ninja’s theme (purple/poison) but some creative Photoshop tweaks made it all work out – on screen at least. I’m not sure how well the pink colors charted out with the DMC threads, so I’m waiting to do that part last in case I have to redo the colors. Continue reading
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