Sprite Stitch Board!

A fantabulous friend of mine is moving away to California soon, and I thought I'd make her a going away present. I was torn between something MGS related, which she would adore, or something Mega Man related since she's dating the drummer for The Megas. I ended up going with MGS, because I'm selfish and wanted to see if doing half stitches would create a more sketch-like look, and also it would be faster.





2 days of stitching, just over 2200 stitches for the image, not too sure about the words. With all the WIPs I've got going on, I'm pretty much amazed I managed to get this done!

Wow, that's amazing! The half stitch gives it a great look, and the lettering is spot on. Well done!

nicely done. I really think half stitch gave the right look, and the lettering is sweet. well done.

Oh my gosh, that is AMAZING! The composition came out beautifully, and the half stitch plan was a great idea!

Is there any way to maybe get a pattern of this? It would make the perfect present for my brother!

Thanks guys! I'll upload both the image I used to make the pattern, and my KG-Chart pattern. In the pattern, I marked off the stitches as I went with a different color, so you can see exactly what I've done, but there are areas (his arm and gun) that I didn't stitch because I didn't think I could fit the whole thing in the frame as well as the words. I saved over the original sth file as I went, but if the grey bothers you, you can always just use the fill tool to replace the black. The image is from Metal Gear Ghost Babel, and I grabbed it from this sheet: http://spriters-resource.com/gameboy/mggb/sheet/9764

EDIT: I used the Caption Maker's free font 1 to chart the text, and just guesstimated where my middle line was to work from: http://www.crosstitch.com/fontform/

Thank you so much!