Cross Stitch...the original Pixel Art! lol

[Little-Miss]

I've been busy!

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[synaesthesia]

Nice! My wife has been doing large cross stitches for the kids - name, date of birth, pictures etc - she's doing one for our son at the moment with Thomas the Tank Engine on it

[rad]

Well done, I intend to get crafty soon, I used to sew and cross stitch as a kid, the main kits nowadays are very flowery or girly. (sorry)

[Little-Miss]

There are geeky ones/non girly (I'm with ya there!) out there and there's a guy called Mr X I think who does it too.

[mmoseley]

Ha ha! Thats amazing Little-Miss, really like that!!

[Oaktech]

my mum used to do loads of xstitch and i used to make patterns for her ages ago (in the 90s) using excel with coloured x's in the boxes as the 'real' x stitch maker software was serious money!

[AMLightfoot]

I love this! I, too, enjoy cross-stitch and would love to stitch this. Did you pattern it up yourself or do you have a pattern/colourchart you could point me at? (Although I am certain it wouldn't be too hard to approximate this from a screen grab). I want a Nyan-cat X-stitch in my life <3

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[Little-Miss]

I'll pass the chart on to you....

[stevehill06]

@Little-Miss Very good..

My other half does a lot of Cross Stitch. She has been making Birthday Cards recently. If I can get any photos of them, I'll share them

[elsiegee40]

Well done Little Miss

My Mum taught embroidery for many years, so I'm pretty handy with a needle too.

Making your own patterns is fairly straightforward... I used to photocopy my drawn/traced design onto graph paper... nowadays with scanners and printers, I can print it onto graph paper instead and get the scaling right much quicker