1-up magnet

[HerrPersilja]

Fridge magnets seems popular nowadays.
This one I sold to a friend actually. I've sold one more too, to a friend of that friend.
It was a Yoshi. Not the friends friend, but the magnet, I mean.

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[SephreniaMusic]

I'm going to give a lot of magnets away this Christmas. They're fun easy to personalise and cheap and I have a nice time making them a win-win situation. I'm looking for patterns from Mario that would make good magnets and these seems perfect could you post this one and Yoshi. Do you have a Mario too? I think people will really be happy at these gifts for Christmas.

[Lijnloos]

Oeh! I love it!!! Could you please post the pattern for the 1-Up? I would love to make one as a badge or magnet as my first plastic-canvas-project...

[HerrPersilja]

I used the 1-up from Super Mario Allstars (SMB3)
http://tsgk.captainn.net/sheets/snes/su ... _sheet.png

I did this in MS Paint just now... I never use stitching pattern programs...

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I'm really not sure those were the colors I used.
I don't even have the DMC-number left for many of my threads
But I looked trough the bunch of threads I have and these were the ones I think I used

For the Yoshi I used the one from Super Mario World.
http://tsgk.captainn.net/sheets/custom/ ... _sheet.png

[YeahYeahYouWere]

Really awesome! I actually had someone just yesterday mention to me that I should make them some fridge magnets and they said "Like a 1-up mushroom" as their example!

I am thinking I may try my hand at some magnets soon, as I have sort of lost momentum on my Mario Kart coaster project and need to get something finished to get me motivated again.

[HerrPersilja]

Thanks for all positive feedback

I guess the 1-up mushroom is the sprite ordinary (ordinary = not computer geeks) people first come to think of. Either that or maybe pac-man. Or Mario. But it's definitly in the top 10.
And I often do that one when I'm learning a new craft or trying a new method of solving a problem. It's small, recognizable to many people, the pattern is easy to remember so you don't have to look at the pattern all the time and if you use different shades of green/red you can try that out and see what shades work well together.
Now I'm working with perler beads and the first thing I did? Yes, the 1-up mushroom

Yeah, the best thing doing these one-sprite-motives is that the stitching takes like 1½ hours (when I stitch I usually watch a movie or a couple of tv-shows meanwhile ) and are completely finished in 3 hours.
I've never actually done a larger stitching. I tried to do a bookmark once, but I screwed that up.

[SephreniaMusic]

When I try to go to the Yoshi page trough your link I get "This image is hosted on tsgcaptain.net Please don't steal bandwith"

[HerrPersilja]

Ok, try this then
http://tsgk.captainn.net/?p=showgame&t= ... 346&sec=44

Check out The Shyguy Kingdom and The Spriters Resource
They have great collections of sprites.

[Lijnloos]

Thanks for the pattern, especially the color-numbers. I don't have them at home, so i'll have to go and visit the craft-shop... I would have anyway because I want to try out plastic canvas. And indeed, what better to try something new then a 1-up!

[HerrPersilja]

I suggest that you look on other colors aswell though.
Buy one dark, one medium and one light green, that goes well together and, most important, that you think looks good.
Then I'm pretty sure you can use one of those green nuances every time you need a green color for your stitching.

I have bought most of my threads on second hand stores. Just a bunch of mixed threads in a plastic bag. Some of them with no number tags on.
If I would have choosen to buy them one by one it's very likely I wouldn't have choosen the same colors.