My first Mario! Now finished...

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I stitched onto black aida and then sewed the squares onto the strap. It was really easy to get the needle through the strap but I don't know how well you could cross stitch onto it as it has an overlap pattern to the material (kind if like bricks if you get what I mean) rather than a grid like aida.

Thanks for all the kind comments by the way.