This little guy was so cute, I couldn’t resist stitching him up.
There’s just something in the pixel like look of simple cross stitch designs that always appeals to me. It’s probably something to do with child of the 80′s, working in the web area for the last 10 years, and all that.
A free pattern
from this site, I’ll probably stitch this little companion guy as well. I just raided my embroidery thread stash for similar colors, so they’re not the exact listed in the pattern.
He’ll probably be given to a friend as we do like to quote the movie Up and yell “Squirrel!” in moments of the others distraction.
A simple “finish” for the back. The fabric was folded over and secured with double sided tape and then a card stock circle cutout was just snapped into place to cover the back stitching.
I love that cross stitch looks like pixels too. It makes me want to recreate things from old games like Oregon Trail.