klicken Profile Joined May 2011 Sweden 203 Posts #1



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I actually made this around 3 months ago, but didn’t get around to post it then, and then never got a good reason to do it, but now for the 100th post, i figured it’s about time.



Background:

With my old iPhone casing breaking, I was searching for something nice to replace it with. I stumbled upon this awesome cross stitched case with my favorite video game hero





I immediately decided that I would do exactly that, stitch myself a Guybrush, so I went ahead and ordered the case. It arrived the same day as the Team Liquid Razer mousepad, and while sharing some beers with my roommate that evening I was talking about my big sewing project. The roommate in question wasn’t familiar with the Monkey Island series and suggested that I should do the Team Liquid horse instead.

I immediately decided that I would do exactly that.



I started working on the pattern for the logo. The case was 33 pixels wide so that was what I had to work with. I figured that 3 shades of blue were enough to give a good balance between looks and work. I added a forth color, the grey for the text and when I was content, I had arrived at this:







While I only needed four different colors, I hadn’t sewn anything since we had crafts at school some 15 years ago, and thus owned none. This lead to me postponing the project until I went home to stay with my parents for Easter. I knew that my mother, who is a seasoned seamstress would have hundreds of different colors of thread.



She had hundreds of different shades of blue.



After going through almost everyone, to get the color exactly right, it was time for the first cross stitch in my life.







There we go.



Almost done.



Even without earlier experience, it took around 20 stitches to get a hang of it, after that I could just shut of my brain and slowly but surely work through everything.

My local hockey team was playing in the play-offs for the Swedish Championship at the time so I did a lot of work sitting in the sofa sewing, stabbing myself in the fingers and watching hockey. (They got 2nd place this year too.)



The darkest shade of blue is done:







The second shade added:







And the final color:







All done!



I worked on this for 4 nights, and maybe around 2-3 hours every day, so I would estimate that, with me being worthless at the beginning, it took me no more than 10 hours total.







Now, 3 months later, after going in and out of my pocket several times every day, the thread has lost much of its saturation and the case itself has gotten a bit brown/red on the edges. I still think it looks great.











If you would like to do one yourself, you can get the case



The pattern I used:

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Background:With my old iPhone casing breaking, I was searching for something nice to replace it with. I stumbled upon this awesome cross stitched case with my favorite video game hero Guybrush Threepwood , made by OhYasumin I immediately decided that I would do exactly that, stitch myself a Guybrush, so I went ahead and ordered the case. It arrived the same day as the Team Liquid Razer mousepad, and while sharing some beers with my roommate that evening I was talking about my big sewing project. The roommate in question wasn’t familiar with the Monkey Island series and suggested that I should do the Team Liquid horse instead.I immediately decided that I would do exactly that.I started working on the pattern for the logo. The case was 33 pixels wide so that was what I had to work with. I figured that 3 shades of blue were enough to give a good balance between looks and work. I added a forth color, the grey for the text and when I was content, I had arrived at this:While I only needed four different colors, I hadn’t sewn anything since we had crafts at school some 15 years ago, and thus owned none. This lead to me postponing the project until I went home to stay with my parents for Easter. I knew that my mother, who is a seasoned seamstress would have hundreds of different colors of thread.She had hundreds of different shades of blue.After going through almost everyone, to get the color exactly right, it was time for the first cross stitch in my life.There we go.Almost done.Even without earlier experience, it took around 20 stitches to get a hang of it, after that I could just shut of my brain and slowly but surely work through everything.My local hockey team was playing in the play-offs for the Swedish Championship at the time so I did a lot of work sitting in the sofa sewing, stabbing myself in the fingers and watching hockey. (They got 2nd place this year too.)The darkest shade of blue is done:The second shade added:And the final color:All done!I worked on this for 4 nights, and maybe around 2-3 hours every day, so I would estimate that, with me being worthless at the beginning, it took me no more than 10 hours total.Now, 3 months later, after going in and out of my pocket several times every day, the thread has lost much of its saturation and the case itself has gotten a bit brown/red on the edges. I still think it looks great.If you would like to do one yourself, you can get the case here if you're Swedish or here if you're not.The pattern I used: | MC | Hero | Parting | Seed | Oz | Jangbi | MKP | sC | Keen | Clide | NaDa | Losira | Moon | DIMAGA | Jaedong | Nestea |