I made this for someone named Maeve. For the sake of privacy, I won’t say too much about them here. But they love Star Wars, and one day this pun occurred to me and it had to be made.
I drafted the pattern in Photoshop, using the font ‘Star Jedi.’ Then I imported to FlossCross and fiddled with it there. A lot. So there shouldn’t have been mistakes, but oh there were several. Including one missed stitch that threw off my count for everything that came after. I eventually was able to adjust, but the curve at the bottom of the R is shorter because of it. No matter, it still came out pretty good.
This was the first time I ever stitched anything that needed multiple skeins of a single color. In total, I think I used just under 4. And I’m just really glad that, when I was shopping my stash for this, I just so happened to pick the yellow that ole Wally World happens to carry. Because last year they pared down their selection from, like, all the colors, to about 30. And my local options are severely limited.
When it came to the sabers, the colors were important. There needed to be two greens, and one needed to be lime green, specifically.
I was lacking appropriate shades, plus, once I threw in the neon floss, I really limited myself, because then everything else looked kinda lackluster and dirty. In the end, the brighter green involves multiple blends and a total of 5 different colors of floss.
As for the aida, I really wanted to stitch on 16 or 18 count, but when I searched Etsy for space printed aida, I could only find ones that were overseas. There was a rather perfect, beautiful one, but it was all the way in Bulgaria, and I just didn’t have time to wait for it.
I managed to find a suitable one on Amazon, and just had to sacrifice the count. So it’s a larger piece than I intended, the 14 count bringing it to 10.5-ish inches, if I remember correctly. Which then led to some frenzied frame buying, also on Amazon, because options for those dimensions were slim. And again, I had to compromise my choice because the better quality frame was out of stock and would not have arrived until March. Additionally, I painted the included mat black.
(I would link the aida here, but when I went to check on it, this option had vanished into thin air from the listing.)
In all, it took me a little over a month to stitch. So it was a very late Christmas present. But hopefully, it was worth it and Maeve feels proud to have it in their home.
(I failed to get a picture of the back, but you might be able to see one big place where I changed stitch directions between horizontal and vertical. It drives me crazy, and I will never do that again.)
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