I love this one (I also stitch a lot and live in same city as the national headquarters of The Embroider's Guild of America with a wonderful museum and have taught needlework classes). Great patterns (a couple were a miss with me, mostly do to lack of detail). Great instructions.
Would have thought the medium and the photos too "soft/squishy" for Grimlock. I have a collectible (heavy) solid pewter Enterprise ornament ...
I don't think or teach that it is 100% always correct to start in the middle. (Always correct to make sure you leave a decent fabric border around the stitching, at least two to three inches on all sides and know how large that border/white-space is).
If there is a strong square/rectangular border (or n the case of photorealistic or other patterns that are completely stitched with no fabric/ground left open/unstitched) -- you start in corner, usually upper left if you stitch left to right or upper right if you stitch right to left. Plus if starting in the middle or corner, get to a section with lots of the same color as quickly as possible to create a good section for anchoring and hiding threads.
Digital issues are currently half-price (android and iPad) for British magazine "The CrossStitcher" and the January 2014 had robots that weren't for a baby nursery. Not transformers but decent looking robots.
Just the one robot pattern. I think their retro booklet has either this one or other robot patterns in it; I'm re downloading to check and will post a screenshot ( without copyrighted the pattern itself) if I remembered correctly.
Heh. Yeah, I found a free one but the stuff looks really, really blurry in the patterns. So I'm trying to find some better pictures, or another program!
Would have thought the medium and the photos too "soft/squishy" for Grimlock. I have a collectible (heavy) solid pewter Enterprise ornament ...
I don't think or teach that it is 100% always correct to start in the middle. (Always correct to make sure you leave a decent fabric border around the stitching, at least two to three inches on all sides and know how large that border/white-space is).
If there is a strong square/rectangular border (or n the case of photorealistic or other patterns that are completely stitched with no fabric/ground left open/unstitched) -- you start in corner, usually upper left if you stitch left to right or upper right if you stitch right to left. Plus if starting in the middle or corner, get to a section with lots of the same color as quickly as possible to create a good section for anchoring and hiding threads.
I'd immediately snap up a book full of Transformers cross stitch patterns.