Final Fantasy Bookmark

[coffeepezaddict]

This is my new favorite thing. My wife and I realized this amazing connection between 8-bit and cross-stitch last year, and I finally got her working on a few projects. The first was a bookmark of four of the original Final Fantasy characters.

I love it.


I asked her if I could start stitching, but she said no, she'll do the stitching, I'm just in charge of giving her ideas.


Then I found your forums! Now, I've got too many ideas!

[coffeepezaddict]

Follow up:

Her second project was these Mega Man patches for my brother.

[faewren]

Those look cool!

[Huskyteer]

Ooh, how'd you/she do the edging of the patches?

[coffeepezaddict]

We backed each of the aida cloth pieces with some plain cotton that was fused to some interfacing (for strength) and then satin stitched the edges in a machine. (Just set the stitch width as wide as you can and then change the stitch length to really small, like a button hole and go around twice.)