Metal Gear Solid stitch.

[Darth Knitious]

A fantabulous friend of mine is moving away to California soon, and I thought I'd make her a going away present. I was torn between something MGS related, which she would adore, or something Mega Man related since she's dating the drummer for The Megas. I ended up going with MGS, because I'm selfish and wanted to see if doing half stitches would create a more sketch-like look, and also it would be faster.





2 days of stitching, just over 2200 stitches for the image, not too sure about the words. With all the WIPs I've got going on, I'm pretty much amazed I managed to get this done!

[StitchPlease]

Wow, that's amazing! The half stitch gives it a great look, and the lettering is spot on. Well done!

[Lord Libidan]

nicely done. I really think half stitch gave the right look, and the lettering is sweet. well done.

[Cerity]

Oh my gosh, that is AMAZING! The composition came out beautifully, and the half stitch plan was a great idea!

Is there any way to maybe get a pattern of this? It would make the perfect present for my brother!

[Darth Knitious]

Thanks guys! I'll upload both the image I used to make the pattern, and my KG-Chart pattern. In the pattern, I marked off the stitches as I went with a different color, so you can see exactly what I've done, but there are areas (his arm and gun) that I didn't stitch because I didn't think I could fit the whole thing in the frame as well as the words. I saved over the original sth file as I went, but if the grey bothers you, you can always just use the fill tool to replace the black. The image is from Metal Gear Ghost Babel, and I grabbed it from this sheet: http://spriters-resource.com/gameboy/mggb/sheet/9764

EDIT: I used the Caption Maker's free font 1 to chart the text, and just guesstimated where my middle line was to work from: http://www.crosstitch.com/fontform/

[Cerity]

Thank you so much!