Doctor Who Stained Glass
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Doctor Who Stained Glass
Just wanted to post a progress picture of my biggest project EVER!
I few months ago, I started to adapt Mandie Manzano's "The Tenth" into a cross stitch pattern:
Some awesome people in the forums helped out with converting the piece into a KG-Chart-- which was amazing and why I *love* Sprite Stitch. when I started working on the pattern, though, the black edges hadn't translated correctly (lots of dark blues and browns instead up the nice solid black lines), so I went through and manually (in MS Paint!) made the image black and white.
I ran that baby through KG chart, and came out with a nice pattern for the black part of the pattern-- and have been working on it ever since. Now a few months and about 20,000 stitches later, I've got all of the black done and am about to start coloring it in! I usually don't post a lot of WIP pictures, but I am just so. darn. proud. of this, that I have to.
I might post updates as I finish coloring each section-- this is a massive 120,000 stitch project, so it's going to take me a looooooooooooooooooong time to bring him all the way to life!
I few months ago, I started to adapt Mandie Manzano's "The Tenth" into a cross stitch pattern:
Some awesome people in the forums helped out with converting the piece into a KG-Chart-- which was amazing and why I *love* Sprite Stitch. when I started working on the pattern, though, the black edges hadn't translated correctly (lots of dark blues and browns instead up the nice solid black lines), so I went through and manually (in MS Paint!) made the image black and white.
I ran that baby through KG chart, and came out with a nice pattern for the black part of the pattern-- and have been working on it ever since. Now a few months and about 20,000 stitches later, I've got all of the black done and am about to start coloring it in! I usually don't post a lot of WIP pictures, but I am just so. darn. proud. of this, that I have to.
I might post updates as I finish coloring each section-- this is a massive 120,000 stitch project, so it's going to take me a looooooooooooooooooong time to bring him all the way to life!
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Awesome work so far.
I'm a huge, huge fan of Mandie Manzano's work, I love what she does. I'm sure she'd be interested to see this project taking shape!
I'm a huge, huge fan of Mandie Manzano's work, I love what she does. I'm sure she'd be interested to see this project taking shape!
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I love how this looks so far! If only I had more time on my hands and not so many projects that I have to get done, I would totally jump on doing this. *le sigh*
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That looks fantastic, even just with the black outline
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This is FANTASTIC! You post as many WIPs as you would like- I would love to see them!
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I never watched Dr. Who but that looks really amazing, just beautiful. Can´t wait to see the result
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Wow, this is stunning! Can't wait to see it in colour!
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WOWZERS!!!
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This is AWESOME! Please please please post more WIPs!
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Thanks everyone!! I had to take a little break from the stained glass piece to finish up (another) Doctor Who stitch-- an anniversary present for some good friends. Figured I'd post it here-- so you all know I'm not slacking!
The quote around the edge is from the show, and the gold in the middle is both their names in circular Gallifreyan.
The quote around the edge is from the show, and the gold in the middle is both their names in circular Gallifreyan.