Ranadok …finally remembered his login info

Doki Doki Cross Stitch

December was crazy, but January is slowly getting better. I finally found some time to finish this post, which has been sitting half-completed for well over a month, so LUCKY YOU.

Once I finished my first Zelda stitch, I went back to the series that I started with, Super Mario Brothers. The logical next game to do was Super Mario Brothers 2, the bizarre non-Mario Mario game that was actually a modification of the Japanese Doki Doki Panic created when it was decided by Nintendo that the 'real' SMB2 was too hard for western gamers. Interestingly, SMB2 (the North American version) was the first one I ever played, and one of the few games on the NES that I actually played to completion. It's still a little weird, though.

Turnips? Seriously?

The Legend of Cross Stitch

The Mario cross-stitch worked out fairly well, so when I went looking for an idea for the pattern for my next project, I didn't stray too far from that concept. I didn't want to just move on to the next Mario game (Mario 2 is the black sheep of the family, after all), so I went to the other major Nintendo classic that was born in that era. I think it turned out quite well:

So much blue...

8-bit Stitch

The Go To 10 project took me literally years to do, between all the starting and stopping and generally being very slow at it. If I were to do the same thing today, I could probably get it done in a few days. Anyhow, after I finished that project and stared at it for a while (now what?), I moved on to something new. I don't know exactly why I decided to do another, but I did. Of course, I didn't want to do the usual flowers and kittens and whatnot (why would I?). So, what could I find that had simple, solid blocks of color, variety in design, and was also sufficiently interesting to be worth focusing on for a significant amount of time?

10 Home

What you are looking at (and probably already know all about) is my first cross stitch project.  I don't recall when I started it, but it took me several years to finally finish it (and that was several years ago). It didn't take me that long because it was hard (it wasn't), but because I didn't work on it for more than a few days at a time with months of ignoring it in between. I made the pattern myself (with some help) from a screengrab of a Futurama episode. I thought it was funny, so I asked my mom to make it for me. She said I should do it myself, and so I did.

Oh, yeah. I'm cool.

And yes, I do know that the result of that bit of 'code' would be an unending HOME SWEET HOME SWEET HOME... that's part of the joke.