Arkanis' Stitching Stuff - Finished Charkatosh! Page 6!

[arkani]

Cleaning out the thread a bit - If I ever finish that Hyrulian shield i'll post it here, but I don't think I will tbh.
Making this for Charkatosh only at the moment.

[arkani]

Apart from working on a couple of quick samplers to send to friends, and finishing off April's sampler, i've asked a dude on redbubble if he'd particularly mind me making a pattern of this:

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Because it's totally awesome.

The shirt itself: http://www.redbubble.com/people/drewwis ... style=mens

Patterns/Wool colours to substitute:
Wool colours, DMC:
7297, 7650(7595),7051,7107 (updated to what I ended up using 21/8/13)

Fire Born Small 69x120.pdf

smaller one :)

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Fire Born 14ct 138x239.pdf

The*BIG* one

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[RMDC]

WANT

[arkani]

WANT

I know, right? Still haven't heard back, waiting oh so impatiently lol

[arkani]

Well, I still haven't heard anything..
RMDC, check your inbox!

[lcockitt]

I love the dragon pic! Really hope he comes back to you soon on it

[Blink190]

The Charizard/Skyrim mashup looks awesome. Please share the pattern when you get it!

[RMDC]

Well, I still haven't heard anything..
RMDC, check your inbox!

I heart my inbox so much today.

[arkani]

Hmm. I still haven't heard anything from the artist. SO, i'll share the patterns, we can always take them down if asked. I'll update the first post with the patterns

Also, I looked at conversion charts for floss to wool, and i'll post those in the first post, too..

I've decided to waste it onto a big fleece throw rug I bought on special, this thing is going to be massive lol. including 1" border, it's going to be about 16x26" I'll be going to my local craft store and lay-buying all the stuff I need next week - the waste canvas aint cheap, plus it'll guarantee I get the same dye lots for the colours. I'm going to get about 7-10 of each colour, I think, since it's non divisible, and do it in half stitches because forget cross stitching in wool lol. (though I have seen it done and damn it's perdy, I don' think it would suit this.)

[arkani]

Bumping this! I got my stuff today - whoot!

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(not pictured - blankie this will be stitched onto.)

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Pinning the canvas to the blanket

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I cheated and used the sewing machine on it's longest stitch to baste the canvas to the blanket.
Boots the kitty for Quality Assurance and size comparison.

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Ugh. getting the hoop on was HORRIBLE. it's a 14" hoop, so it's kinda flimsy, but I don't want to fight with it too much.. Everything was so stiff! Had to get the fiancee to help me put the hoop on.
Boots is QC'ing the hoop, making sure it's not going to slip off. (he really just wanted to curl up on it, and was quite annoyed when I kept shooing him from sitting on it.)

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The grand total of what i've done tonight. about 2 hours broken stitching. I'll be doing more in the morning - it's cold here in the mornings and night, so stitching on a blanket has turned out to be quite cozy aready



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I'm also sketching out an idea for some embroidery. It'll be on a different fabric though still Skyrim related.