Crafty presents 26/12/2009
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Hey all! Hope you all had a nice Christmas etc 
Sorry for lack of posts recently, I’ve been hard at work sewing and making things. The two pictures you see here are gifts I made for my brother and sister.
The first is a coaster featuring a battle sprite of Mikhal from Dragon Force. I got the sprite from Pixel Warehouse (thank you DarkWolf!)
The second is AbyssWolf’s sprite of Kirby from Super Smash Bros Brawl in a flexihoop.
I didn’t like the colours the stitching programs wanted to use, so I decided to eyeball the colours myself (I used to do this all the time before KGChart lol). I’m really happy with how they turned out. Both projects were stitched with DMC floss on 22ct evenweave.
I had planned to make more stuff but as usual Christmas sorta sneaked up on me
New challenge WIP 22/11/2009
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Here’s the first progress shot of my challenge submission:
I don’t know if it’s obvious from this photo but it’s a bunch of Digletts and Dugtrios…or at least it will be lol. More updates as I get it stitched!
Sprite Stitch Challenge NOV/DEC/JAN :o 19/11/2009
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OMG, 2 posts in one day lol 
Ivy’s having a nap so I figure this is a good time to bulk out my blog 
Anyway….YES! The new challenge has begun and this time around its “Patterns based on famous quotes from any multimedia (movie, television, song, book, etc).”
After muchly sitting at my PC trawling through my files looking for inspiration I finally came up with a pattern based on a quote from Tremors… I’ve started work but haven’t got very far yet – it’s not an enormous pattern so the main bit should be done fairly quickly (that’s assuming I don’t just go back to Metroid Prime Trilogy!)
I’ll try and upload a picture of the progress so far sometime this weekend.
EPP Update 19/11/2009
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A quick update on the progress of the epic pokemon pattern. It’s going quite well, but it’s gonna take a long time lol.
I’ve decided to post updates on this one once a month or so, rather than every time I feel like getting a pic of it I will probably post updates more often on the WIP thread at Sprite Stitch though so be sure to check that out! ^^
Cute castle 19/11/2009
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A quick project I did a couple of weeks ago which I just got around to framing. I’m not sure who the castle belongs to but it’s from Super Princess Peach on DS – I thought the sprite was really cute and colourful
KGChart made it a little more blue than I would have liked, but it looks ok. I might do another one and pick the colours myself (if I have time).
Anyway I gave it a nice pink and cream mount and it’s now hanging above Ivy’s cot
AUG/SEP Challenge results! 24/10/2009
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The winner (with 26% of the votes) was riotpatch, with this piece of awesomeness from Aladdin!
Second was tnitnetny’s “Mario Hitchcock”, and I came a respectable third with my Ulala. Not bad for my first proper challenge, yay! I’m really happy that actual real PEOPLE voted for me lol! Well done to everyone who took part, all of the submissions were great 
Looking forward to the next challenge!!
Voting has begun! 17/10/2009
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Yes, the AUG/SEP challenge is now closed. Voting has begun to choose the winner, yay. There are 9 entries (including mine) and they’re all great!
Check them all out (and vote if you can!) here!
Ulala’s cross stitch attack!! (aka AUG/SEP challenge FINISHED!!) 14/10/2009
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Yay, I finished it at last. This one seemed to take FOREVER lol
It measures at about 54 x 36 cm, and Ulala has 18789 stitches according to KGChart. The background was dyed using acrylic paint – I’ve gone for a sorta patchy tye-dye type look to it (that’s my story anyways!)
I also added some pink and lilac circles, and some DMC Jewel effects stars.
I’m quite pleased with how it turned out, all that’s left to do now is get it stretched and framed
Sprite Stitch Challenge AUG/SEP :) 24/09/2009
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Ok this post is a lot later than I hoped it would be! The latest challenge over at Spritestitch is “work in silhouette” – and it’s not as easy as it sounds! It took me about a week or so and after many ideas (good and bad) I settled on an idea and made a pattern. See if you can guess what it is
The silhouette itself was finished on Wednesday, now I just need to do something with the background now to make it pretty! Updates soon
More Pokemon…! 14/09/2009
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I know I haven’t posted in a while, I’ve been really busy, mostly with my entry for the latest Sprite Stitch challenge (will be posting more about that this week, but if you’re interested in what’s happening, check it out here).
I’ve done a bit more on the epic Pokemon as you can see, it would have been more but Ivy was unwell all last week with a virus. Hopefully things can get back to normal (or whatever passes for normal around here lol) and I can get on with my various projects.
More soon!
