Sprite Stitch Board!

I'm new to the boards. First off, let me say thank you for being here! I started a cross stitch design when I was about 13 years old. My mom LOVED to cross stitch and I thought I'd give it a whirl. She came down with terminal illness shortly thereafter and I dropped cross stitching needless to say.

17 years later, I saw a cross stitch design in Nintendo Power from Link's Awakening and I realized that video games and cross stitching were a natural fit. I found the Z is for Zelda stitch on here and thought that I would try that out for my first go. Below is my progress. I think I started back in late September of 2011 and I'm just now finishing up the bushes. Attached are 5 pictures of progress through February 29th, 2012 and I will post more pictures later on.

Anyway, thank you for the boards and I hope to be posting much more in the future!
Jaco927

Very cool! Love this pattern :3
Welcome to the site!

Looks great and nearly finished

that's looking awesome!! what do you plan on doing with it when it's done?

I plan on framing it up and putting in the house. With little kids in the house, it will be good to teach them their alphabet the right way. :-)

My 3 1/2 year old already knows who Zelda is. You gotta teach them the basics up front. Reading, writing, arithmetic? That will come. Zelda = priority. :-)

Jaco927 wrote:I plan on framing it up and putting in the house. With little kids in the house, it will be good to teach them their alphabet the right way. :-)

My 3 1/2 year old already knows who Zelda is. You gotta teach them the basics up front. Reading, writing, arithmetic? That will come. Zelda = priority. :-)

AND How!!
my 5 year old daughter had a pink link b-day party last year.. she loves it!

AH, hahaha. That's awesome!

I am starting on a MASSIVE LTTP Title screen that johloh posted (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=408&p=9388&hilit=title#p9388) which should keep me busy for while after I get the bushes finished on Z is for Zelda.

Jaco927 wrote:I plan on framing it up and putting in the house. With little kids in the house, it will be good to teach them their alphabet the right way. :-)

My 3 1/2 year old already knows who Zelda is. You gotta teach them the basics up front. Reading, writing, arithmetic? That will come. Zelda = priority. :-)

Couldn't agree more!
I think my 3 1/2 year old learns more from games than she does at nursery

Here are the updates promised!

The latest picture was taken this morning. You may notice that one of the bushes is missing. I miscounted a 2 stitches in the bush (in the bottom right corner of the bush. You can see it if you really are looking for it) so I took it completely out. I still need to put it back in. Draggin my feet on that. :-)

too bad about the mis-stitching...


but it looks bad-ass!!
when it's all said and done, how long do you think it will have taken you to complete it?