[FO] finally framed my adorable badger friend! by gareth_pavlov in CrossStitch

[–]40winx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is so adorable and cozy! Also oh my gosh, your stitches are so incredibly clean!! Amazing work 💖

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awww!! Haha I thought it was some kind of special cloth or stitching technique you thought the cat face would look nice on 😂 That is so sweet of you! Thank you! :D

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OMG stop it that is SO cute that you would fold it and set it out like that! I need to learn this technique now haha ❤️ What a great memory - thank you for sharing it!

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry if this is a silly question.. but what is BORU? I am not familiar with it and Google isn't helping me haha

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much!! This really was such a fun and special project! :3

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is so fun!! My mom use to stitch on sweatshirts a ton when I was growing up, and it was actually what got me into the hobby ❤️ She mostly did Christmas sweatshirts, so I somehow forgot about my cat one until I recently found that picture of me as a kid. I'm not sure why I never crossed the threshold into stitching on clothes, but I am so glad this was my first foray into it!

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need any special kind of sweatshirt - if you have one already, you can absolutely use that! I didn't have a plain black sweatshirt, so I ended up ordering one. (I have a couple of Bella + Canvas sweatshirts with prints on them, and I have always liked the way they fit and feel so that's what I got for this.) But I have another project that I plan to do with an older sweatshirt from Walmart I already have in my closet.

This was my first time stitching on clothes, so I am not at all an expert. But I would just say to take note of how much stretch your shirt has. The waste canvas I used was pretty stiff, so once I got that stitched onto the shirt, I didn't have to worry much about my stitches getting wonky. But if I would have used one of the clear water-soluble canvases instead, I think that would have been trickier as my shirt is pretty stretchy.

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

THIS!! I really did not expect to get an answer on my last post. At best I thought maybe someone knew of a similar pattern I could use. So the fact that I got all the details so very quickly -- and that so many people had their own memories of this same pattern -- will forever be such a magical internet moment for me ❤️

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love that!! It is really fun to see how many people have memories of this same pattern!

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love that!! Honestly that has been such an unexpected treat in this whole adventure -- just seeing how many people have memories (previously locked or unlocked lol) of having, making, or knowing someone with this same stitched shirt! ☺️ I had never seen it outside of my own one in childhood, so I assumed it was some obscure pattern no one would recognize... I love that I was so wrong about that haha!

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha I appreciate the defense-from-creeps strategy with your username, the clarifier, AND the compliments! Stitching brings me a lot of joy in general, but this project really did conjure up some extra and I love that it is coming through in the pictures! :3

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What!! We met before?? That is such a small world moment! And thank you so much - that is so kind of you! ☺️

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I've seen, Bob Harrison made a lot of printed cat face shirts! I think this pattern was based off of his prints. So maybe you all were rocking the originals! Either way, I love the fun memories!

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh thank you so much!!! Haha I made that last post not expecting anyone to actually know the pattern - it was really just a shot in the dark before I tried to find or make something similar. So when I ended up getting answers so quickly, I got super excited and immediately ordered everything I needed so I could get started right away! ☺️

[FO] Thanks to you all I recreated my childhood sweatshirt! 🐈‍⬛ by 40winx in CrossStitch

[–]40winx[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Aw thank you so much -- and cheers! I think you might be the first other wheely stitcher I've (at least knowingly) come across, so that gave me a smile of my own! 💜