Epic Mario Thru the Ages Pattern

[funkymonkey]

I finally finished on Nov 7, 2014. Only took 2 and a half years lol.

Yaaay! congrats!!

[Firehawke]

It looks wonderful!!!

[RMDC]

Great job!

[kuja.girl]

I finally finished on Nov 7, 2014. Only took 2 and a half years lol.

You still need to bring this by my office so I can drool over it :-) (I usually roll in between 8 and 8:30-ish...)

[CReese]

I just started on the revised version of this pattern yesterday! I am so excited to see how it comes along. I just started cross stitching again with this project (I used to do it all them time when I was younger) so I hope it all works out. I love seeing everyone's pictures of their work and all of the fun patterns on this site!

[Moirae]

I've only done a few cross stitching projects, but wanted to work on something truly "epic" . So, I started this about 2 weeks ago. I just joined up to thank Kuja.girl, Funkymonkey and Osmosis for doing the hard work of creating this pattern and bringing it to us. You guys are amazing.

2 weeks progress- I doubt I'll be able to keep this pace up.

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(on Aida 14)

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[Jeetje]

I just started on the revised version of this pattern.



On lugana 25 count 1 over 1.

[Firehawke]

Hope the project goes well! Can't wait to see more pics!

[Moirae]

Revised Epic Mario Through the Ages
Progress - bit under 5 weeks (2 strands over offwhite aida 14)

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Color Changes:
Used DMC 906 for the frog suit because it is really bright green in the game and the first pattern and some other cross stitch patterns used this color.

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(emulator)
I found the red Paragoomba to be a bit too bright red (maybe because I'm not stitching on blue?); so, when I moved onto raccoon Mario, I used DMC 817 (instead of 606) and 3771 for the skin tone since he seems to be a light peach color like in this sprite.

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(from mariomayhem.com)
KG-chart gave me 817 and 758 (Very Light Terra Cotta, 3771 is Ultra Very Light Terra Cotta and I had it already).
I'm being a bit indecisive on sticking with the 3771 or going back to the tan (739) in the pattern which I used in the frog Mario.

Oh, and please forgive the cat hair/lint. One of my cats was even more of an obstacle to my cross stitching today than usual.

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He just loves laying on things. Especially the bag I cover my cloth with BTW This project started my floss collection and filled that entire box.

[Moirae]

Changes, continued
The sand seemed too dark orange. Changed out 740 Tangerine to 742 Light Tangerine. This seems a lot closer to the color I saw in game. Although, I will say I think the block next to the water that uses the same color scheme looks better with the darker color (I might replace it later).

For the cactus, I used 906 and 909. There is a brown version in the first level of world 2 that I think is supposed to be burnt.

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However, I prefer the green version that is found a little more often in game.

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(From Map by Zeric - VGmaps.com)

For some reason I often see the Hammer used as the power up for Hammer Suit Mario online, but that's used to break rocks on the maps.

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while the power up to give you Hammer Mario is actually a little suit like the Frog Suit and Tanooki Suit power ups.

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(emulator)
So I replaced the Hammer with this Hammer Suit. I haven't got the color to fill them in yet, but I will probably use 3852 (Very Dark Straw).
I had problems finding a sprite, but found a copy of the all-star version on the Mario wiki and used it to draw a copy with the original NES colors.