Discworld cross-stitch

[julesjones]

Someone on afp posted a link to a small cross-stitch kit company that's doing licensed kits of Discworld art -- mostly Paul Kidby, but also some Josh Kirby and Stephen Briggs. They're moderately expensive, as they're licensed, but you do get a nice kit for your money. Since I can think of at least one person on my flist who'll be interested, here's the url to the first page -- there are three pages of Discworld kits in the online catalogue.

http://www.lyndisfarne.com/catalogue.php?title=discworld1&col=3

Comments

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

I'd love to have the Granny one, but me and needles...bad combination unless we're talking about body-piercings, and I don't think I want inadvertent finger-piercings, which is what I would get.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I hate to say it, but they're mostly very poor designs. Kidby's art doesn't adapt that well to cross stitch. The one of A'Tuin is so poor that I wouldn't know what it was unless the caption told me. Rincewind and Luggage is apalling.

some of the others, esp Susan, would have benefited from the use of half stitches and a few more colours in the design.

The whole point of Kidby's art is that it has lots of small detail. Cross stitch is not a good medium for small detail - you've got to pick images (like the cottage) that suit the medium.

[shriker-tam.livejournal.com]

Anything that can be pixellated can be cross-stiched - it just might get very very large...

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

I rather liked most of the ones on page one, especially the faculty, even though the librarian doesn't look quite right. The text in the books clearly states he's orange haired all over, but in the pattern he's mostly bald.

I hate Greebo's pattern. It totally fails to capture his utter unashamed evil cattishness. Instead it's just ugly. And I agree with watervole: A'tuin is totally unrecognizable. Granny's cottage is nice, though.