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Donkey Kong Country - Live, Laugh, Love
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:01 pm
by funkymonkey
I found this frame a while back, and since I've been on a DKC kick recently, thought I'd fill it with appropriate sprites. I made the patterns, then realized the frame was way smaller than I thought. Ended up stitching it on 28 count even weave to get the pictures to fit the frame. I'm very happy with the results, though!

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28 count is TINY! With my hand for scale:

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It's actually the first completed stitch I've made to put on my Etsy store. I also put some cat meme patterns up on there tonight, check them out if you're into those

Re: Donkey Kong Country - Live, Laugh, Love
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:50 pm
by La Ptite Bete
Wow, it looks great ! very neat on 28 ct... how many threads do you use for so tiny stitches ? just 1 ?

Re: Donkey Kong Country - Live, Laugh, Love
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:55 am
by funkymonkey
La Ptite Bete wrote:Wow, it looks great ! very neat on 28 ct... how many threads do you use for so tiny stitches ? just 1 ?

Yep, just 1.
Re: Donkey Kong Country - Live, Laugh, Love
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:21 am
by starrley
This is super cute! I've stitched on 28 count, but nothing as big as what you made. Great job!

Re: Donkey Kong Country - Live, Laugh, Love
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:39 am
by kuja.girl
I'm doing my Aug '12 challenge on 28 count and boy am I glad it's on linen. I stitched a 28 count piece on cotton even-weave once and almost went crazy, you did an amazing joband must have great eyesight!
Re: Donkey Kong Country - Live, Laugh, Love
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:28 pm
by funkymonkey
I mostly just held it about 6 inches away from my face. Made my neck hurt more than my wrists!
And now that I'm back to 14 count, I feel like I'm in that Mario 3 giant world!
Re: Donkey Kong Country - Live, Laugh, Love
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:07 pm
by Aggie Tsubi
That's absolutely awesome, great work.

Re: Donkey Kong Country - Live, Laugh, Love
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:21 am
by blackmageheart
Super work!
I'm a fan of the tiny counts (don't get me started on what it's like to use 32 or 40ct though..!) so love what you've done here
funkymonkey wrote:And now that I'm back to 14 count, I feel like I'm in that Mario 3 giant world!
Heh, it is like that when you go back!

Re: Donkey Kong Country - Live, Laugh, Love
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:39 am
by LucyInTheSky
That's awesome and so adorable. Good luck selling it in your store!
Re: Donkey Kong Country - Live, Laugh, Love
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 6:43 am
by evilcarrot
My mom would LOVE this (She was a huge DKC fan). I've worked on 28ct Aida before and yeah, it's hell on the eyes. I got one of these to cope with it:
http://www.michaels.com/Hand-Free-Magni ... s&start=18