Han Solo Cross Stitch Pattern
A little over two years ago, I created my first cross stitch pattern for a Craftster challenge. Naturally, it was a geeky cross stitch, immortalizing one of my favorite Star Wars quotes in floss and Aida cloth. I designed it by hand using pencil and graph paper, which took foreeeever.
Now, thanks to a free pattern-making program a fellow Craftster pointed me towards, I was able to chart my Han Solo sampler! It’s available both as a simple JPEG and as a PDF with color chart.
I have to say, the free KG-Chart software I used was pretty awesome. It was incredibly user-friendly, and included pre-programmed palettes for both DMC and Danish Flower Thread. You can export your final pattern as a jpeg, or print it out with a color chart and comments. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to make their own geeky cross stitch patterns.
Dear geekcrafts, I love your blog and I subscribe to it is google reader. But lately it has been a bit disappointing as images of what the articles are about do not appear in the feed. All that appears is the geekcrafts logo supersized. I thought you might not be aware.
that’s interesting, I also subscribe on google reader (windows, firefox) and don’t have that problem… it happened once (on the new years roundup I think) but never since then…
I’m sure someone will look into this straight away!
Sherezada!! I swear I’ve been googling star wars embroideries to think of interesting stuff to make for my house and I actually came across this design this weekend! I thought it was awesome, didn’t realise it was you!
It’s a SMAAAAALLLL world!
’tis indeed, Samantha! I’d love to see it if you stitch one up for your place. :)
Even-star, I’m sorry to hear about your reader problem. I, too, have google reader, and can see the pictures fine. Perhaps it’s a browser issue? I use IE. One way or another, I’ll bring it up to the GC mods. Thanks for bringing it up!
For any help it may give, I also have no problems with it on Google Reader and use both Google Chrome and Firefox.
I love KGChart! I’ve used it to make several patterns now and it really doesn’t take much to learn. Very useful!
KGchart sounds fun, and I desperately want to use it(charting your own patterns on paper is exhausting) but i have a mac. any suggestions on mac friendly software that does the same thing?
Thanks!
I recently switched from a Mac to a PC, and I have to say part of my problem in getting good X-stitch software was that I used a Mac.
I did a little googling, though, and have found something called MacStitch 2010: http://www.ursasoftware.com/macstitch/macStitch.html. They have a free demo, so it might be worth giving it a shot. Sorry I can’t be more help!
Has anyone used MacStitch before?
I love that you posted this. Thank you so much! I’ve asked my mom for it for my birthday – she loves to cross-stitch, where I’m more of a crochet person. Such a good quote!!