I'm also too stubborn to wear a thimble.These are the first and only cross-stitches I've ever (almost) finished. This was a project for my boyfriend's birthday. I decided to make him a guitar strap with all of his favorite video game characters on it when he said he was going to find a way to hang the horribly ugly bead sprite Boo I made for him from his guitar. "Surely there must be a better way," I thought. A better way, indeed, but much more tedious.
Kirby, Boo, and Samus (respectively, but you knew that already)
The Boo looks better now, and I'm going to completely redo the Kirby because it looks like complete shit.
Link from Four Swords
He is by far my favorite even though he's really simple. I'm quite happy with my color choices especially considering I picked them by memory of the sprite whilst at the store.
Locke from FFVI
Snake Codec
Credit to DoctorOctoroc for the resizing and coloring. I did switch a few of his colors around, so if anything looks bad it's my fault.
The only piece yet to make it to the strap. Getting them on there is a bitch of a process, but it's going to work! I know it looks really rough around the edges, but I think it's cooler that way for its purpose.
If you've noticed that there are no outlines it's because that is the way I originally intended to attach them to the strap. That didn't work out very well (as you can see with Snake), so I'm going to stitch the outlines before I backstitch them on... or whatever I decide to do.
I hope you like it. The best thing is my boyfriend was thrilled. Since the project wasn't done I got to put each piece in a small box which all went in a bag with the strap at the bottom (Snake attached) under some tissue paper. It was funny to watch him open all of them with the look you get when you know you're supposed to like a gift but don't. I could just see the "wtf am I going to do with these" in his eyes. THEN he understood when he got to the strap. It was great.
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