Hi

[Flying_V_Goddess]

Hi. I'm Sam.

Not new to cross stitching, but I haven't done it in ages. I used to do some as a kid (roughly 10-15 years ago), mostly pre-packaged patterns. Kind of grew out of it, I guess. The last thing I cross stitched was about a year or so ago...back when our Wal-Mart had cross stitching materials...of the red mushroom from the Mario video games. Not quite sure where it is right now as I moved to a different place in December and most of my crafts are still in boxes as I don't have the space right now to put them out anywhere (living at home for the moment, only have a single small room to put everything in). It looked pretty neat. Planned on doing the other 'shrooms, but life got in the way and Wal-Mart stopped selling the embroidery materials.

Why I'm here? Well, a couple weeks ago I found one of my Legend of Zelda shirts (one I thought I had lost). Its a tan shirt with one of the screen shots from opening scene from the LOZ: The Wind Waker...the opening scene was a series of pictures that looked old, slightly faded block prints telling the story from LOZ: Ocarina of Time. Somehow I got it in my head that those 6 pictures from that opening scene would be great to craft into something I could hang on my wall and that cross stitching would be the best and coolest way to do it...don't ask me how I arrived to that conclusion 'cause I'm not so sure myself (I can tell you why I didn't choose other ways to go about it). So now I'm back into being interested in cross stitching. I tried doing some cross stitching research to help me design this particular project and kept finding beginner's stuff I already knew (did find some other Zelda related cross stitching works, though...not what I'm trying to do, but still just as awesome and complicated). So I guess I'm here to seek the collective wisdom of those who are better at this craft than I am so I can accomplish this project and maybe even future projects.

In case you haven't noticed, I love video games and have the occasional video game related craft project. Not sure if I'm the only one here who does.

[Mabel Figworthy]

What an interesting way of getting back into cross stitching! Welcome to the forum, and I'm looking forward to seeing pictures of this project.

[Lili]

Hello and welcome to the forum!!

[Midge]

Hi from me too.

[Serinde]

You aren't the only gamer on the forum by a long shot. (Not me, though. LOL) Welcome from the West of Scotland.

[mig-3]

Welcome, Sam. Lots of good people here, I don't doubt there are some with the video bug.

[Nachstenliebe]

Welcome to the forum, Sam . Mario and Zelda... some of the best and most classic games ever! How awesome you're combining two hobbies
Faith

[Angel]

Hello and welcome to the forum. Trust me that you're not the only gamer stitcher on here! Wishing you all the best with your project!

[maggs]

Hi and welcome

[Jaki :)]

Hi & welcome from me too

[Wandatoo]

Welcome from Canada!

[Samira]

Hi there and welcome to the forum
Take a seat and grab some cookies too!

[Squirrel]

Welcome from Australia. It sounds a novel way to get back into cross stitching and I wish you luck with the designing

Squirrel

[annkor26]

Hi Sam and welcome!

Good luck with your LOZ craft search. I'm an Animal Crossing fan and would love to find charts of some of the animals! Pikmin too!

[Busy_B]

Hello and welcome!

[stitch1]

Wellcome!

[vanessanjf]

Hello and welcome

[Trylla]

Hello and welcome ... from a fellow gamer.

[Flying_V_Goddess]

Hello and welcome ... from a fellow gamer.

What games do you play?

[Trylla]

I prefer MMOs ... Ultima Online, Lineage II, World of Warcraft. But I've given them up because of school, so all I play now is the occasional X-box game.