(please pardon the crappy scan...camera is lost so you get this. *sigh*)

60+ hours
2700+ stitches
50+ colors

and a vast amount of patience later, I present to you, Kirby.



based entirely on this deviation by the most talented (and I assume also lovely) darkmoon3636.

I, alas, can only take credit for the stitchery and not the design.

I fell in love with it the first time I saw it and went, hmm how to do this. Apparently pixel art is terribly easy (and also simultaneously terribly difficult) to convert into a cross-stitch design. The main problem was choosing colors. While the palette of colors available for use in pixel art is, for all intents and purposes, rather infinite, the brand of embroidery thread I used is limited to 600 or so colors. Add in the fact that all printers and monitors show color differently and that accounts for why this is not a perfect color match. I don't care though, it's still cute.

Kirby was the most difficult part to do (his face/head/body) because the idea within the stitch design was to have the colors transition into each other fairly smoothly. I sewed and ripped out that portion of the design about six and half times (to varying degrees). I am not 100% happy with how that portion turned out, but I believe it's the best I can do. You know, without hand dyeing my own colors to accurately match what I could see on both the printout and the monitor.

It isn't 'stretched' (or blocked depending on your terminology) yet, so that's why it's off-square and wrinkled. Me = Lazy.


Many many many thanks to darkmoon3636 for allowing me to use her design.