A Little Stranger » embroidery http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress Tue, 22 May 2012 11:23:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Mario Cross stitch http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/2009/12/mario-cross-stitch/ http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/2009/12/mario-cross-stitch/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:31:53 +0000 Holly http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/?p=1167 Mario

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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