Hi everyone! I've been meaning to finally stop lurking and actually share something I've made, so here is my most recent project, finished last night, commemorating my love for Joel Miller from The Last of Us.

The pattern is made by taking a screenshot from the game, editing it a bit to make the colors more cross-stitch friendly, and then using pic2pat to get the pattern. I used 100 colors, as that seemed like a good compromise between getting as much detail as possible and avoiding as many confetti stitches as possible (there were still so many confetti stitches). I probably could have done with fewer colors, but this is only my third full coverage cross stitch, and the first time I'm attempting anything this realistic, and I was worried it wouldn't be clear what's going on in the picture if I used less. I also used 18 count aida in an attempt to get more details in there, and ended up with around 32k stitches.

There's probably some things I could have improved with the pattern and the process, but overall I'm really happy with it :) if nothing else, it served as a good distraction from the events of season two of the show as that aired lol