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My first foray into crossstitched sprites[Legend of Zelda]

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 9:11 am
by out2lunch
I've done needlepoint for years, but I recently made some cross stitched patches for the redditgift exchange and now I'm totally addicted to stitching sprites ^_^

Here are my first projects, please let me know what you think :)

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Re: My first foray into crossstitched sprites[Legend of Zeld

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 5:48 pm
by sadiestitches08
Super cute!

Are they notepads?

Re: My first foray into crossstitched sprites[Legend of Zeld

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 6:16 pm
by Delver01
I can't tell how you've finished your edges. Did you just fold the edges over and stitch through both layers? or is that a second, white piece of fabric stitched to the back? But I love the stitching. Very well done. :link

Re: My first foray into crossstitched sprites[Legend of Zeld

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:44 pm
by out2lunch
sadiestitches08 wrote:Super cute!

Are they notepads?

The triforce is on a sketchbook, here's a better pic of the whole thing
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Re: My first foray into crossstitched sprites[Legend of Zeld

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:47 pm
by out2lunch
Delver01 wrote:I can't tell how you've finished your edges. Did you just fold the edges over and stitch through both layers? or is that a second, white piece of fabric stitched to the back? But I love the stitching. Very well done. :link
Thank you so much ^_^!
I did indeed fold them over and stitch both layers, but I also turned them into iron on patches with some iron on adhesive. That's the paper backing that you see poking around some of the edges.

Re: My first foray into crossstitched sprites[Legend of Zeld

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 9:16 pm
by SunkistShiek
I also turned them into iron on patches with some iron on adhesive. That's the paper backing that you see poking around some of the edges.
That's awesome! Such a unique idea! Have you used them on anything? Is that how you got the one on the note book?

Re: My first foray into crossstitched sprites[Legend of Zeld

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 9:29 pm
by out2lunch
That's awesome! Such a unique idea! Have you used them on anything? Is that how you got the one on the note book?
That is indeed how I got the triforce on the notebook. Because of the weight of the patch and the fact that couldn't iron it from the back, I had to iron it a lot longer than it said to, but it seems to have stuck pretty well :D

Re: My first foray into crossstitched sprites[Legend of Zeld

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 2:37 am
by QueenBex
Great job they look awesome! :good:

Re: My first foray into crossstitched sprites[Legend of Zeld

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 10:15 am
by Firehawke
How fun!!! Someone's going to be very stylish!

Re: My first foray into crossstitched sprites[Legend of Zeld

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:21 am
by yafashelli
Those are very cute! Maybe I'll do something like that for my son's backpack! :)