Monday, January 19, 2009

Getting crafty

I spent several hours today both in the aisles of Michael's craft store - wandering around and looking for just the right color threads and some sort of manual on how to use it - and stitching with a little needle and said colored threads in front of the television.

I have a pretty comon laptop bag, and I wanted to differentiate it from any other bags that I may see on the streets of the world.

I thought to myselef, "Pixel art is just like cross stitching." And with that, it was TO THE INTERNET! To find a good template for stitching something I like. I picked out Boo from SNES mario. He's so cuuute.

Here are the pics of my adventure. I will definately be doing more of this if the opportunity ever arises. It's so fun and relatively easy.







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8 comments:

Vee (Scratch) said...

For the record. I hate Boo.
He's smiles in your face only to stab you in the back.

Cool stuff!

Unknown said...

haha - THAT is a fantastic quote. Sounds like allota people i know, even ones at work.

:-)

**BAM**

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Unknown said...

crafting!!! I want to make one too!

Dez said...

Reminds me of this post-it note art.

http://blog.shoplet.com/office-supplies/post-its-note-art-8-bit-edition/

veronica said...

aunt ginger cross stitches all the time. but i think she's more into kittens and flowers and stuff.

Grig said...

*__* oh... cute! :)

Charles Goatley said...

I remember doing cross stitching at school when I was very very young. Cool idea, though. Are you tempted to do anything more ambitious? One of your own characters maybe?

Unknown said...

charles - i'll most def try something more complex. i've got the next thing in mind and i'll post it as soon as i get my fingers working threads.

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