nesdude's Stitches and Things!

[nesdude]

Current project: Condensed MM2 Stage Select Screen. Airman coming soon!


I promise you, I won't rest till I am defeated.


Can you feel the fire? Can you see the cities burn?


And I know, as soon as you step foot inside that door, you'll fall victim to my metal dance...

Old stuff below!

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Mystery 16-bit WIP!
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So, uh... hi.

I'm nesdude, and I stumbled on this forum a few weeks ago when Kotaku linked the Megaman Rush Crochet hat. I've never been a craft guy, but going over previous postings of the cross stitch stuff, I figured I'd give it a shot. My mother is a huge craft person (used to own her own scrapbook store a few years ago), so I borrowed some of her supplies and got to work messing around making video game sprites into something real and tangible!



My first little design thing, Airman and Mega Man. The colors are wrong because that's the closest I could get, but I still like it. 14 count aida, I started with 2 strands of floss, but the top most tornado has 3 strands and I like the look much more, even if it's a little harder to work with (it likes to tangle more). I finished this over a few evenings, and wanted to get started on another project, as this was just a test run to see if I enjoyed cross stitching.



A pair of magnets for the rap duo The Adventures of Duane and Brando. Why? I dunno, I found the sprites and wanted to experiment with making a magnet using plastic canvas, and I'm really, really happy with how they turned out. There's two pieces of canvas to each magnet, the main design is on the top piece, then I attached a second piece with the border stitching to hide the back stitches and so if the magnet falls off, it doesn't rip off the stitches on the backside with it. These also took way longer than I thought they would, 6-8 hours for each one

I dunno what I'm going to start on next, but rest assured I'll post updates and stuff. Never thought I'd actually start cross stitching, but it's a very enjoyable and rewarding craft. And, you know, adding video games to anything makes it so much better!

[IzzyXIII]

those look pretty awesome nesdude, looking forward to seeing more projects from you

[Zombified]

Those are sweet! Glad you stumbled here. Can't wait to see more of your work!

[nesdude]

I started a new project that should keep me busy for a month for two. Take a peek!

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18 count light blue aida, 2 strands of thread and I really like how it's turning out.

Gonna leave it as a surprise as to what it is, but feel free to take a guess at what it is. From a 16-bit game. 'nuff said.

[azay04]

looks atm like Cats fro zerowing :L but its waaayy to early to be guessing

[FouFou]

Something in my head keeps saying a Final Fantasy logo of some sort, but I'm not sure.

[LiquidKarma]

looks atm like Cats fro zerowing :L but its waaayy to early to be guessing

It is but I definitely like where you're going with that! Zerowing FTW!!

[Asinine]

looks atm like Cats fro zerowing :L but its waaayy to early to be guessing

I was going to guess that too.

[azay04]

haha, dunno how i can see that but yeah may be wrong we'll see :p i love zerowing

[nesdude]

No correct guesses so far, but I do like the idea of a Zero Wing stitch. Hmm...

How about a small update?

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Taking shape quite nicely, and that's not even all the lighter purple. Many, many colors (well, okay, 15) when all is said and done on this thing. I'm betting once the next level of purple is down it'll become more apparent what this is. Hopefully.