World of Warcraft Blood Elf Emblem Request

[Toiya55]

Hey everyone! I was just wondering if someone could help me make this picture into a pattern. A friend of mine requested it specifically as a possible future present, but he doesn't actually expect me to make it because of the amount of work etc. (Wont he be surprised? ) The amount of colors doesn't matter to me really, just whatever you think would work best with a picture like this. He asked for it to be a "decent size" so he could hang it on the wall. I threw it in KG-Chart (I also have PCStitch Pro if that is easier) and it made me size it down from the original pixel size. My issue with trying to make a pattern is that it looks blotchy. Any help or advice would be much appreciated! I plan to do it on black Aida cloth I think so I don't have to stitch all the black.

[Efrite]

Well I put it into KG Chart and I see what you mean by it coming out blotchy. The only way I can see (others may know of another way) for you to make it less blotchy would be to manually go in and change each stitch to like a half stitch. It would be tedious and annoying for sure.

[blackmageheart]

I also put this into KGChart and PCStitch as well, in my opinion the PCStitch one was better, however I only have the trial version at the minute so I can't save the patterns.
If you don't mind stitching something quite large I would recommend putting it into PCStitch, and keeping the output at the image's original size (550 x 650). It will still be a little blotchy, as the image has to be posterized to some degree to enable the floss colour matching - you can set the "Maximum Colours to Use" at higher levels to decrease the blotchyness, however this means using a LOT more colours. Out of interest I found out the max colours that PCStitch would use for this image at its original res would be 367 - that's a lot of colours!

Personally, I would try to find a smaller version of this image (preferably a png) and work from that - I'd go for something half this size as it'd still be quite a big piece.

I hope that helps you out a bit.

[blackmageheart]

Sorry to double post - I actually went ahead and resized the image to half its original size and put it through KGChart.

Here's what I got :

Blood Elf icon.sth

(123.48 KiB) Downloaded 360 times

On 18 ct it'd be 31.75cm x 37.53cm. There's 53 colours - if you're gonna stitch it on black aida then delete the 310

Don't know if that's any good to you but you're welcome to it

[Toiya55]

Thanks a bunch guys That information is a lot of help with getting an idea of how it looked in different sizes. I played around a bit with the pcstitch idea but for some reason I can't get the bottom right part of the red area to not be brown, even in the full 550x650 pixel setting. I think that program just hates me...

I about had a heart attack when I saw the size of it in inches with the full pixel setting..30x36 inches on 18 count!!! I love him dearly, but I think I would die before I finished it or my hands would fall off

I also took the idea of using it 50% in Kg-Chart, and tried upping it to 75%. I like the way it looks and it is a nice compromise between 50% and 100%. I'm just afraid that what I think may look good in the program will end up looking horrible in stitches, or if I am being too finicky about how it looks in the program to begin with. I tend to have a bad habit of worrying so much that I end up scrapping the entire idea.

Anyway, here is the 75% version of it in KG-Chart. What do you think?

[Efrite]

I think it looks good. It's still really big. This project really isn't as big as it would be if you weren't using black aida. There's over 140k stitches in 310.

[blackmageheart]

[Toiya55]

This may be a silly question, but will it look weird with black aida cloth for the background instead of black stitches? I wouldn't think so but I don't think I've made anything that I've used a specific color cloth as the background to replace stitches. I would still do the black stitches inside of the emblem so it wouldn't look uneven.

Again, thank you guys for your input I honestly have no idea when I am even going to start this, but hoping it will be soon! I just finished the "Beguiling Tiger" Gold Collection and I'm looking forward to working on something with a little more color.

[Servotron]

[wirilome]

Hi. I am new.

Would it be possible to get this pattern in a PDF file?

Or what program is used to open that kind of file (sth)?