Happy 2011! ♥

I just made my first pattern of the year and picked out my colours for it. It's another Abysswolf sprite. This character was actually my main in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, along with Diddy Kong and Yoshi. I just wanted to start out the year all cute and evil.

Goals I wanted to achieve this year stitching-wise and bead-wise in no particular order:

# Finish Hogwarts Crest

# Finish January start pictured above

# Stitch Valefor by Abysswolf

# Stitch Pokemon Trainer by Abysswolf
# Stitch "The Snowman" by Christmas
# Stitch three quilting squares for Child's Play by August (Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Yoshi's Island)

# Finish my Tetris Attack bead sprite set

# Finish Yoshi's Island themed biscornu

The above are mostly pretty large projects, especially Pokemon Trainer. I may do a couple more X-Men or Batman portraits as well so I feel like I'm accomplishing something.

To recap 2010, I started and finished 16 projects. They can all be viewed here. They were all small to medium sized pieces so I expect to not have as many finishes in 2011.

Psylocke

Last day of the year, last stitching of the year! It's Psylocke of the X-Men. The sprite is from the SNES game X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse and was stitched in Hollywood, Florida during my Christmas vacation.  It's amazing how much one can stitch when one is ill and has access to Netflix. I should be used to stitching solid blocks of colour since starting the Hogwarts Crest pattern but it was brutal filling in all that brown for the background.

Psylocke

X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse
SNES
Started: December 19, 2010
Finished: December 28, 2010
Colours: 14
Size: 3456 stitches

The Gryffindor section of my Hogwarts Crest is almost complete as well. I would say I would have an update next week but I did buy upwards of seven games during Boxing Week... >_> Damn you, XBLA.

Happy New Year, everyone! =]

For Hufflepuff, hard workers were most worthy of admission

Here is the third update for Little Mojo's Hogwarts Crest pattern. I finished the Hufflepuff part quicker than I thought I would, having to pause and stitch other things. For the rest of December, I will likely not get very much done. I will be traveling to Florida for xmas to visit family and will not stitch too often. I will try to stitch a new pattern on the 8-10 hour flights. I bought a thread cutter made by DMC that is supposedly "safe for travel." Hopefully it does not get confiscated. =] The new pattern will be an X-Men piece to go with Gambit and Wolverine.

December 2010 TUSAL

I went out and picked up a couple of clear xmas bulbs for this year's final TUSAL. Sorry for the kind of lame photo this time. It gets so dark here so fast and I have no xmas tree inside yet. =[ Needless to say, the lighting is not great and the bulbs give off a lot of glare in the first place.

TUSAL Jar Bulbs Contents: Terra & Esper Terra, Rozalin, Poison Ivy, Majora's Mask Trio, Hogwarts Crest, Radiohead Bear, Spider-Man Wedding Annoucement

Commission: Spider-Man Wedding Announcement

My first commission is complete. Exciting. =] This sprite was kind of a pain because there is a limited range of dark reds and blues in DMC colours. I had to manually edit this sprite quite a bit but I think it turned out fine. I mostly relied on KG-Chart for once. I tend to prefer PCStitch but KG-Chart gave me better initial colours to play with.

Spider-Man
Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems
SNES
Started: November 20, 2010
Finished: November 30, 2010
Colours: 10
Size: 2252

Names and date backstitched:

No more black aida! =P