Well that’s purty! (Picture: Twitter/ Tom Katsumi)

You pulled an all-nighter to watch the election results come in? So what. This guy live cross stitched the entire thing.

Yes, you may like to think you have your finger on the political pulse, but Tom Katsumi went one better.

Because Tom turned the 2015 UK election into a work of art, by live cross stitching the results onto a tiny map of the UK as they came in (until he fell a bit behind, but he’s a man not a machine, people!).

He told BuzzFeed News that like many great ideas, this epic cross stitch marathon started out as a joke.




He explained: ‘I sort of woke up with the idea last Saturday, and by the time I’d fully woken up and come to my senses I’d already started making it. It was only really meant as a joke for my friends. Then things went a little crazy.’

Here’s how it all unfolded…

Preparation is key. Tom created his template and announced his plan bright and early on May 3.

I'll be live-stitching the election results throughout the night, so you don't even have to watch the news… pic.twitter.com/bhmm5q7Fmx — Tom Katsumi (@tomkatsumi) May 3, 2015

And his preparations didn’t end there. Tom also invested in an array of threads, which he colour coded to cover the full political spectrum.

He assembled his crack cross stitching team…

And of course, there was beer…

Then, slowly but surely, the results started to flood in. The first stitch was a red cross for Labour in the constituency of Houghton and Sunderland South.

And as the night went on, the map began to get ever more colourful.

And yes, he may have fallen a tad behind…

And basically totally lost the will to live…

But after power-napping it out…

He was soon back on track, and we think you’ll all agree, it’s looking pretty bloody impressive.

So yes, we may now know the result of UK 2015 election, but follow Tom on twitter to see the result of his epic cross stitch marathon.

And after an epic all nighter, here’s Tom doing the final, triumphant, stitch.

So guys, there you have it. Whether or not you’re happy with the result of the election, I think we can all agree that Tom’s cross stitch is pretty bloody impressive.

And as for the rest of us – we all now have five years to get our cross stitch game up to scratch for next time.

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