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So, I've been missing all the crafty things in my life. I'm moving to Houston in just a few weeks, and I won't have space for all of my craft junk, so I decided to just take up embroidering, since the supplies are cheap and doesn't take up too much space.
For one of my first projects (after my attempt to do a Vogart kitten crashed and burned) was a Stormtrooper... thing.. for my friend. I'm not exactly sure what to call it. A patch? that will be mounted and framed?
Anyway

It's about 4.5" x 5" ish (not including the background), and I fixed that little patch of white in the orange after I took this picture.
I'm going to cut the background back until it's just a half inch border, so just imagine it like that :)
EDIT: I cut trimmed it up and scanned it, for a better quality picture, behind the cut.


(updated picture) it is actually a little bit more purple-y than this picture is showing.
I dyed this with just markers, water, and a whoooole lot of Spray and Wash to keep the Stormtrooper white. I used markers because a) I was too lazy to go out and buy legit dye, and b) i knew it would bleed everywhere, and markers come out easily with Spray and Wash. Let's just hope he doesn't get this thing wet!


You will notice this says "51", instead of "501". He SAYS he told me 501, but I swear he said 51. Luckily I was able to squeeze a 0 in there, but I'm still kind of bummed about it.


My original plan was to keep everything plain, and just add one of those yellow halo-y type things and then embroider some fancy stuff in orange to make the circle.
This didn't happen.
The yellow bled EVERYWHERE. On to the roses, on to the banner, all into the Stormtrooper and it refused to stay in any kind of circle shape. Plus, the yellow all on it's own was too bright next to the thread colors. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, but it's for a guy, and I feel like it's a little femme, but the purple looks real nice with the other colors in person! I swear!