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Finished Mario Brothers Project!

paperfox — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:04:33 +0000

Finished Mario Brothers Pattern

Ms. Jean finished stitching the Mario Brothers pattern! It’s absolutely beautiful and thank you Ms. Jean for sharing your work with us.

Ms. Jean requested the pattern from me last year and stitched it for her grandson. This is a full poster sized pattern 24″x36″ – that’s some dedication to finish this monster.

From her email:

I used needlepoint canvas and DMV Pearl Cotton #5 floss to
give it a shine. Of course, it was a big hit.

Here is a photo. I had it framed in a bright green metal frame with a
bold blue mat. Thanks for providing the basics.

Thank you again Ma’am! (and sorry for the delay in getting it posted here).

Yoshi Cross Stitch

paperfox — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:10:10 +0000

Yoshi Graph

Here is the Yoshi pattern requested by Carly. I found the images on the web and then worked the graph.

It’s available in an Excel Spreadsheet – just leave a comment here requesting it.

Pac Man, Invaders, Galaga and Gir Patterns

paperfox — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:28:37 +0000

It’s more cross stitch patterns!

These are graphs I put together from my earlier Cross Stitch Around the Web post. I wasn’t going to post them but I thought someone might want to put something together with them… and I am going to do actual more original patterns with them later so I decided to go ahead and give you the option of requesting the base patterns from me if you wanted to use them too.

Like the Mario Brothers Cross Stitch Pattern , they will be available in an Excel Spreadsheet – just leave me a comment here requesting a copy and I’ll email it to you.

Obviously I don’t own the rights to any of these images.

Pacman 1

Pacman 2

Invaders From Space

Galaga

Gir

Cross Stitch Patterns Around the Web 1

paperfox — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:04:39 +0000

Today’s post is simply going to be a tour of wacky cross stitch patterns I’ve found across the web. Clicking the picture will take you to it’s home website (go visit! I won’t get jealous, I promise!). Enjoy!

Simpson Alien

Pacman Characters

Galaga

Space Invaders

Gir

Sampler Quotes – Galaxy Quest

paperfox — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:33:06 +0000

This weekend my brother-in-law stumbled across a blog that touted a post called something like ’100 Essential Geek Quotes – Gurrl Style’. I was immediately hooked! I’m a Geek and I’m a Girl! This has to be for me… and I was sorely disappointed. They were quotes all right, but only a handful of them were geeky and less than that were actually good quotes. Most of them were just things females happened to have said in a movie.

Let me reiterate – I was disappointed (and so was my brother-in-law).

So we set out to make our own list of quotes – granted we were equal opportunity with ours.

And how does this fit into a crafty blog? Well quotes make great cross stitch material! Stitch up a sampler or just a little sign! All the quotes listed here (and in subsequent Sampler Quotes posts) will be charted for cross stitch and made available via email – thepaperfox.net@hotmail.com , or you can leave a request in the comments below and I’ll send them your way.

This week’s movie was Galaxy Quest – if you have not seen this one you are totally missing out. Tony Shaloub as a stoner, Sigourney Weaver as a blond and totally having a spaz attack near the end, plus the guy who plays Zaphod Beeblebrox playing crewman # 6, aka: the redshirt! It’s a Star Trek parody baby – and done beautifully.

Some of these we went back and forth on their ‘quotability’ – tell me what you think!

And the quotes are:

“My TV Guide interview was six paragraphs about my boobs and how they fit into my suit!” ~ Gwen Demarco / Sigourney Weaver

Dr. Lazarus: “You don’t hold the turbo down, it’s for quick boosts!” Commander Tagert: “Oh like you know!” (Alan Rickman and Tim Allen)

“Hey guys, there’s a red thingy heading toward the green thingy… I think we’re the green thingy.” ~ Guy Fleegman or Crewman # 6 / Sam Rockwell

“You broke the ship? You broke the bloody ship! ~ Dr. Lazarus / Alan Rickman

“Look, I have one job on this lousy ship, it’s stupid but I’m gonna do it! Okay!?” ~ Gwen Demarco / Sigourney Weaver

“Hey, don’t open that! It’s an alien planet! Is there air? You don’t know!” ~ Guy Fleegman / Sam Rockwell

“Didn’t you guys ever watch the show?” ~ Guy Fleegman to the other crewmembers/ Sam Rockwell

“Let’s get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!” ~ Gwen Demarco / Sigourney Weaver

“Chompers? Well screw that! What is this thing? I mean there’s no useful purpose for there to be a bunch of chompy crushy things in the middle of a hallway. No! I mean we shouldn’t have to do this. It makes no logical sense! Why is this here! Well forget it! I’m not doing it! This episode was badly written! Whoever wrote this episode should die!” ~ Gwen Demarco / Sigourney Weaver