His/Hers Pacman Towels

[stacymckenna]

I've been doodling with sprites on dishtowels lately, but I just finished a pair of fingertip towels designed for cross-stitch. I've got the fingertips up at Etsy for now, and have sold several of my friends sets of dishtowels as well. Thanks to Sprite Stitch and [Sprite Stitch-recommended] The Spriters Resource for all the help in patterning!



Mario, Galaga, Dig Dug, Space Invaders, Q*bert, Centipede, and Pac-Man dishtowels


I've now got patterns/towels waiting for some Mario sets as well. I figured a dishtowel set of "Heroes" and "Villains" from the NES Super Mario Bros might go over well...

In addition, my boyfriend's caught the bug this month as well. In helping me research patterns (he's the gamer, I only speek geek), he fell in love with the "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" pattern posted on Sprite Stitch some time ago [he has named the piece "The treachery of pixels"], and is now making his own. He's enjoying the cross-stitch process so much he may never go back.

[DWgrrl]

thats so cute, love the idea.

[stephaniem]

Great work!!

[johloh]

love the towels, so clean and crisp looking. how did you do the black border on each one? is it stitched?

[crazystrange]

looks like backstitch using a single strand of thread to me johloh!

[stacymckenna]

Thanks!

Yes, the black is back stitched. I actually did the main stitching on the dishtowels using 6 strands of floss (separated and then recombined so it lays nicely instead of looking like rope) over 10-count waste canvas, and then used a 2-strand back stitch for the black. The hand towels are 3 strands and 1 strand, respectively. I typically hate back stitching (it's so tedious in most patterns, trying to make things look neat and tidy when you're coming up in holes that have already been stitched through 4 times or more...) but since it's just around the outside on these, I find I don't mind it. And the back stitching makes the sprites stand out so much better!

I really wish I could find someone making the hand towels in black - it would look so much better on a black background, I think. Sadly, the industry is focused on grandmothers, so available aida products tend to be lots of pastels. One of my friends suggested I dye some black before I stitched them (including a dishtowel so I could stitch Pong in white) and I just laughed at him - I may be crazy, but I'm not masochistic!

I've got friends asking for towels with Hello Kitty on them now. If anyone's got good patterns no more than 20x20, I'd love a copy!

[Aelys]

Hmmm... My Hello Kitty patterns are bigger than that, but if you still need them just let me know. (you can find a sample here: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1433&p=9113#p9113)

[Rozez1982]

Those look awesome! I'd love to have towels like that.

[Caiella]

Wow, would totally love a set of towels like that! How, may I ask, did you do it?

[essemde]

Those look great!