A Little Stranger » embroidery http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:10:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Week in pictures: lucky streak! http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/2010/02/week-in-pictures-lucky-streak/ http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/2010/02/week-in-pictures-lucky-streak/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:37:19 +0000 Holly http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/?p=1989

I’m having a bit of a lucky streak this week, on Thursday my Zelda heart container cupcakes won 2nd prize in the valentines contest on Instructbles.com, then the next day I won tickets to Hospital Record’s Q+A+E. Yippee!! Other than that a quiet week for week in pictures, i even managed to go to a party last weekend and not take one picture, bad Holly!

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I got the recipe from Laurens Recipe book. They were really easy to make and taste exactly like Millies cookies! I even made a wheat free version for one friend who dosen’t eat wheat, by substituting the self raising flour for gram flour and a quarter tsp of bicarbonate of soda. Next i’m going to try making the double chocolate ones mmmmmm

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This is the latest cross stitch im working on, but its a little cryptic for now as its a birthday present and i don’t want to spoil the surprise! :)

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Also putting a smile on my face this week: Parties / looking forward to Hospitality / Running outside for the first time since before christmas! / being jealous of Vicky’s tan / Random snow / Ikea trip / Fluffy-on-the-inside thermal tops

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Since it got featured on Reddit and Stumbledupon I’ve been getting a lot of emails about my Mario Cross stitch so i thought i’d post a proper picture of it – here it is proudly hung on our living room wall. I cant take all the credit for it though, Jonjo did the sky ;)

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Mario

Mario
Download a large version of the chart here.

I got the frame from Ikea (its called Ung Drill) and its pretty big at 59×85 cm, i’d had it for a long time and was saving it for a special project. I counted how many stitches across and down i’d need to fill the frame and then made the cross stitch chart to the right size by taking an image of a mario level and laying the sprites over the top. I an aida with a large weave, i cant remember what size it is but each stitch is around 4mm across, and a mix of DMC and Anchor threads. Jonjo worked it out to be 12000 (ish) stitches, it took us three weeks to complete.

Holly xox

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