I’m not a big fan of traditional needlepoint work (though many of the people around me are). I appreciate the effort and the skill that goes into it, but I can’t see myself hanging one on my wall as art. Not until now:
Quiet pastoral scene, meet Lara Croft
Big thanks to Game Girl Advance for introducing me to the Becky Shaefer, the artist behind this piece. I guess I know what I’m getting some people for Christmas.
The comments under the GGA article were pretty insightful too — now I want my very own 8-Bit Light Warriors on a scarf. Though Link on a toque would proably work as well. Check out Sushiesque’s blog for some awesome pictures of old-school NES images translated to cross-stitching works.
UPDATE: Sushiesque was kind enough to point out that Memepool had links to other 8-bit cross-stitching projects.