Closing in

You can finally see the vague outline of the whole thing! (Except for the text.) The end is near!

Strange Arts

Enjoy this weird distorted batman. More Yoda tomorrow.

No Yoda this time

It's funny because I'm not a contributing member of society! Ha ha!

Three Days In

Not much to report. I made an executive decision and changed the color of his robe. The automatic online pattern generator I used had it as turquoise. He may have been introduced in 1980, but he's not that bad.

Oh, and I bought an embroidery hoop. Because I wasn't quite cool enough already.

He has a face now

I have to admit, I was a little worried about this yesterday. It certainly didn't look like the Yoda I know. However, it came together nicely when I started willing in the missing colors. My only gripe is that he doesn't seem like a very happy Yoda, but hopefully that will change with time to match the pattern (now pixelated for your convenience):

Another source of problems:

Do these colors look the same to you?
This suggests a fourth and fifth rule:

4. If colorblind, have someone check the colors for you.
5. (see rule 3)

Update The First

I have decided on a final design (above) and purchased my supplies. I was right about the cost: the base fabric, thread, and needles cost $5.08 in total.

And how far have I gotten in over 4 hours of work? I have gotten this far:


So class, what have we learned?

1. Cross stitching takes fucking forever.
2. Maybe choose a simpler design next time?
3. You moron?

I will continue updating until I finish in mid-2015.