Cross-stitch

[M]

Well, this thread has been very informative. I crochet, and hand sew occasionally. Interesting stuff. How similar is this cross stitch stuff to embroidery?

More importantly, can you make Megaman? I would think 16 bit art style might be easier to make than say a perfect circle.

[Kyosalad]

Cross stitch has a pattern laid out on a grid on a separate paper, unless you freehand the design yourself, instead of having the pattern already printed on the fabric. I haven't actually done embroidery yet but I would say it's only similarities to cross-stitching are when you do the details on cross-stitch, or the finishing touches. You use a lot of backstitch, stem stitch, french knots etc to do the tiny details/outlines on the pictures. These detail stitches are what gives the pictures dimensions and makes circles look more circle-y, instead of some retarded 8-bit nightmare you've tried to create in minecraft or something XD

You can make just about anything you like. I'm about halfway done with my second halloween picture that has a huge moon in it so you can see what the circles can look like when I post it. I will try my hand at embroidery soon though, make some pillow cases that caught my eye a while ago, but reading around it seemed like embroidery is closer to needlepoint than cross-stitching.

[cigsthecat]

So, coloring books for women, except they're 28.

[Kyosalad]

It tells me all the best points to stab you, for the most aesthetically pleasing end result ;D

[Kyosalad]

Here's that halloween picture I was working on that displayed circles well.



And other finishes I've accumulated since:









Work In Progress

[Compass]

Oooh, you've done a bunch. I like the first and last the best. Those owls are cute.

[Kyosalad]

Thanks. The owls actually have a border I haven't done yet because this was originally a birth record kit, and I swapped the colors around in it on many things since the kit had soooo much extra floss. I then decided to make the border in a dark purple which I still need to order because I keep forgetting. I was also going to change where you put the birth record name/dates into an anniversary record for my b/f and I instead, but pretty doubtful on that one right now.

I also found a nice sewing forum http://www.123stitch.com/cgi-bin/BBS/bbs_forum.cgi mainly for cross-stitch but they also discuss a plethora of crafts; quilting, ornament making, knitting/crochet, and some other stuff I can't think of right now.

Sorry, I can't recall how to insert links without displaying the whole address, also sorry for reposting the pumpkins, for some reason this thread did not fully load all posts when I first opened it so I couldn't remember what I had already posted. In any case, that was a new pic of them taken with a camera phone that did happen to come out looking much less grainy.

[Doc Holliday]

AMERICA FUCK-YEAH!

[Kyosalad]

;p I actually picked it because it just looked fucking majestic. Thought it would have been a nice man-cave addition.

[Doc Holliday]

It looked like it took forever and a lot of different thread.