Page 2 of 3
Re: Earthbound Alphabet stitch [WIP]
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:45 am
by pinkcatflower
That looks good
I would say colour in the white spots... It gives that texture and dimension blank space just doesn't, you know? Well that's just my thoughts
Keep it up!
p.s this is a pretty epic project

Re: Earthbound Alphabet stitch [WIP]
Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 10:09 pm
by ScienceDad
Update: Mostly finished with the top half!

- earthbound1.jpg (264.54 KiB) Viewed 1738 times
Thanks for the feedback on white spaces, I'll fill them in :-)
- sd.
Re: Earthbound Alphabet stitch [WIP]
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:41 pm
by ScienceDad
Almost done! :-)

- IMG_1108.jpg (113.04 KiB) Viewed 1615 times
Re: Earthbound Alphabet stitch [WIP]
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:39 pm
by ScienceDad
Complete!

- IMG_1135.JPG (210.06 KiB) Viewed 1534 times
I took some advice from the salesperson at the frame store and picked up some foam board to pin down and mount the Aida cloth after ironing. Unfortunately the fabric plus board was way too thick to re-attach the frame backing, so I'm going to have to figure out some way to keep the whole thing together :-/
Maybe I'll take it to the frame store and get them to do it properly.. since I cheaped out on everything else
I showed the finished piece to my 2-3/4 year old and she pointed at the letter "I" and shouted "BEE!". I had to explain that bees are insects, and that "insect" starts with "I". And that daddy had a really tough time finding a good "I" word in the Earthbound sprite sheets. Then she pointed at the monkey and shouted "M is for GIRL!".
*sigh*
- sd
Re: Earthbound Alphabet stitch [COMPLETE]
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 5:40 am
by Cailyn
looks great! this is definatly one of my favorite super nintendo games

:D

Re: Earthbound Alphabet stitch [WIP]
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:58 am
by XavierNougat
ScienceDad wrote:
I showed the finished piece to my 2-3/4 year old and she pointed at the letter "I" and shouted "BEE!". I had to explain that bees are insects, and that "insect" starts with "I". And that daddy had a really tough time finding a good "I" word in the Earthbound sprite sheets. Then she pointed at the monkey and shouted "M is for GIRL!".
*sigh*
Hahaha, love it
Re: Earthbound Alphabet stitch [COMPLETE]
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:41 pm
by jadely
Looks GREAT!
And props to your kid for making your life tough

Isn't that what they're there for?
Re: Earthbound Alphabet stitch [COMPLETE]
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:13 pm
by Eliste
If you got a small matt board around it, you could mount your project on that, slightly smaller than the frame, and use the mat board to hold it all in as that would fit.
Re: Earthbound Alphabet stitch [COMPLETE]
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:52 am
by omgrobots
This looks amazing!
Re: Earthbound Alphabet stitch [COMPLETE]
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 7:22 pm
by ScienceDad
Eliste wrote:If you got a small matt board around it, you could mount your project on that, slightly smaller than the frame, and use the mat board to hold it all in as that would fit.
Yes, that's basically what I did with my last project - and I already bought the frame so I'd need to get a matte custom cut, which (if I recall) costs more than one would think :-) Besides, it looks so great mounted on the white foam board! And I'm just too plain lazy to pick out the hundred-odd pins I used to secure the Aida cloth to the board.
btw, thanks for posting about finishing cross-stitch pieces Eliste, it's super helpful :-)
omgrobots: Thanks!