Late last fall I got the idea to stitch up some of my husband’s drawings and make him a zippered pencil/hook case for Christmas. Well, here we are now and the stitching is done but not the case.
Oh You! A Periodical is the hubby’s zine, and the first picture is the banner for the accompanying blog. The other is from an individual blog entry. Click the pictures to go to the blog and the entry, respectively.
He made both originals on the computer, the unicorn with a program that allowed pixel-by-pixel control (so the pattern is a literal representation, though I made a minor error in the stitching), and the man by drawing with the trackpad on his laptop (!!!). I printed a large version of the man and went over it with graph paper to turn it into a cross-stitch pattern.
The stitching is all half stitches on 28-count evenweave with two strands of floss. Full cross stitches were too difficult at that scale.
His birthday was yesterday and I gave him the finished embroideries with a request that he tell me whether he would actually like them made into a pencil case, or into something else. He chose the pencil case, and we’ll be designing it to suit his use. I’ll show you when it’s done!
These are amazing, and I can scarcely wait for the pencil case! Thank you honey rabbit!
You are very welcome, sugar bear!
So glad you two found each other! May you encourage and enjoy and delight ineach other for all of your days…..Pencil cases indeed
Indeed! And thank you, we intend to. 🙂