Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Charmander Evolution Cross Stitched Backpack

I've started a loving, but sometimes tedious tradition of giving my boyfriend something hand-made for his birthday. I thought it added a little "from the heart" to the presents he gets :) The first was the Mario Blanket [after that, I never want to quilt again, especially without a rotary cutter] and this time it was this cross stitched backpack.
 
 
It took about 3 weeks to complete and a night to make the actual backpack itself. This was my first time cross stitching and I really wanted a pattern for this image but I could only work with what I had. So I ended up finding this picture on Mr. X-Stitch's blog and absolutely loved it!
 
This is his
I couldnt quite match and find all the colors, but I did the best I could with that. As for copying it, I SUPER zoomed in to a section that I was working on, counted spots, and stitched from there. Plus, I excluded the green background because it wouldnt have matched with the black backpack.
This is mine
I just found the DMC color chart I made for this! Here you go:
  • Charizard
    • Wings (dark): 3842
    • Wings (light): 806
    • Reflection orange (most of the face, etc): 971
    • Body orange: 721
    • Some of the random border: 3777
    • Nails, eyes, etc: 3865
    • Eye Color: 995
    • Tummy Reflection: 3823
    • Tummy Actual Color: 3856
    • Inner Fire Yellow: 744 (I think?, I'm not sure if I changed this one or not)
    • Outer Fire Orange: 971 or 741?
  • Charmeleon:
    • Body Orange: 721
    • Reflection Orange: 606
    • Random Border: 3777
    • Eye Blue: 995
    • Teeth, nails, eyes: 3865
    • Tummy Reflection: 3823
    • Tummy Actual: 3856
    • Inner Fire: 3823 or 744?
    • Outer Fire Orange: 741 or 971?
  • Charmander
    • Body Orange: 721
    • Reflection Orange: 741
    • Eye Blue: 995
    • Teeth: 3865
    • Random Border: 3777
    • Tummy Reflection: 3823
    • Tummy Actual: 3856

Hope you all like it! ♥



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