Super Mario World Map WIP

[Squall5005]

I'm back with another update. I've been doing a couple of hours a week on this. It's just hard to juggle a job, a social life, videogames, the gym and stitching all at the same time. I've recently started doing about 2 hours a night so if I keep up that pace we should start seeing some real progress. Then again...I just got Ni No Kuni for the PS3 today.

As you can see I have done a little more of the water and have done quite a lot of the black outline, as well as some of the grass and the brown wall.

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[WeeRamekin]

I have been eagerly waiting for an update - this is awesome!!

[kellysouthpaw]

So, after getting really frustrated with the dye situation, I put this away and haven't brought it out in about three months. Well I just pulled everything back out this past weekend. I'm way overwhelmed at the thought of doing the big map and having to stitch all that blue, so I might use my tax refund and buy another big piece of cloth and try the dye again. And I've got my black piece for the special map and my white pieces for the "inset" maps all ready to go. Just a matter of buying the floss and getting started! I'm still finishing up my Mario Through The Ages (I'm on the very last little bit - I'd guess about 2-4 months left on that). So I'm trying to debate whether or not to just stay focused on Mario Through The Ages, or if I want to take a break from it and start the star road map or the special map. Decisions, decisions!

[WeeRamekin]

I too am looking into doing this. I got my fabric the other day. Now on the dye situation....I cannot find the dye that was previously mentioned so I bought (2) different blue RIT dyes and am going to play around until I find the right color for the water.

[Daizeh]

Here's an update from me

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[kellysouthpaw]

So I'm almost at the end of my first cross-stitching project, and I want to make this my second project! However, I had sort of a different idea for how I would do it. I am going to split it up "by castle" and have each castle "scene" (Yoshi's island, Chocolate Island, Vanilla Dome, Forest of Illusion, etc) be its own mini-stitch. I would, ideally, like each mini-stitch to be 12"x12". I would then arrange them "clock" style (12 o clock, 1 o clock, etc) with the title screen in the middle.

To do this, I will need to do each scene on different sized aida to make sure they all come out the same relative size (since almost all of the scenes have different amounts of stitches). The only one giving me trouble is Butter Bridge (castle #4). Because it's so long, I will need to stitch on aida that's 36 count for it to fit my desire for 12"x12". First of all, I don't even know if there's such a THING as 36 count aida. Secondly, I would have no idea where to get it. Then I thought about making each mini-stitch be 18"x18", to accomodate Butter Bridge but then some of the other smaller maps would look miniature, even at a higher aida count.

So I guess what I'm asking is...is there such a thing as the "higher count" aidas? (28-38 counts) How high does the aida count go? I can really only find sizes 14-20 in stores and online. I'm not sure if there's a website I'm missing that sells the higher counts? At least if I knew what all of my options were with aida sizes I could come up with a better game plan.

[blackmageheart]

is there such a thing as the "higher count" aidas? (28-38 counts)

They are linens, rather than aida.

Because it's so long, I will need to stitch on aida that's 36 count for it to fit my desire for 12"x12". First of all, I don't even know if there's such a THING as 36 count aida.

Try Edinburgh linen, I believe that's 35 or 36 count. Or there's Newcastle, at 40ct

[kellysouthpaw]

Thanks for the info, BMH!

Does Edinburgh linen have the holes like Aida? There's no way I'd be able to eyeball that. My cross stitches would be so uneven without the holes...

P.S. Am I the only one who is unable to edit my profile? I've both moved from my previous geographical location and have made more progress on my cross-stitch project and I wanted to edit my profile and it gave me an error message "General Error SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ] Unknown column 'f.field_no_edit' in 'where clause' [1054] An SQL error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact the Board Administrator if this problem persists."

[funkymonkey]

Yes they are evenweave fabrics so they have a "grid" to them. You may not be able to split a grid to do a 1/4 or 3/4 stitch, but I don't think you'd need to for these maps anyway.

[kellysouthpaw]

I was doing some quick research on Evenweave and it says something about you "stitch over 2", whereas on aida you "stitch over 1". I'm not exactly sure what this means. Will it still look like traditional cross-stitch "x"s?