Snow Pea

My brother is the hardest person to buy presents for, its just ridiculous. So I gave him an ultimatum: if he didn't come up with a list of potential presents for his birthday, I'd be giving him cross stitch.

He didn't deliver, so I made him this:




We both love Plants v Zombies, so it was fun to make and I knew he'd get a laugh out of it. It now sits above his x-box, for all to see.

This was my first attempt at making up a pattern from scratch, and it came out damn well, if I must say so. Screen cap to photoshop, then painting in each pixel the exact right colour, and then to the KG-Chart LE to make it a 'proper' cross stitch pattern.
Pattern can be found here.

Canvas

I painted these a while ago, just felt like it.
And, yes, that is the back of my microwave.

Nerdy Cross Stitch.

I made these for my siblings, from patterns I found online:



This was my version of this, I had to double their size to fit in my frame, and for my VERY first patterning attempt, it's not awful. I'd not taper in the base of the mushrooms next time.
I also made the original size for a friends birthday, but never took a photo -- its in the best frame too. :)

and of course:



for my brother. Its sitting on his bookcase in pride of place, cos it makes him laugh.