Today's prompt was black and white, so I cross-stitched a QR code! It leads to the Genuary website. Much easier than the black on black one.

Cross stitched QR code
On Twitter, Bridgebyapool suggested doing a Langton's Ant cross-stitch. If the square is white, then it turns black, the ant turns 90 degrees clockwise and then moves one square. If the square is black, then it turns white, the ant turns 90 degrees anti-clockwise and then moves one square.

I coded it in Processing first:
Langton's Ant

Video of the pattern being generated in Processing: Langton's Ant

Here's the cross-stitch:
Langton's ant cross-stitch
Random walk dice roll cross-stitch

Many dice were rolled to make this cross-stitch. If I rolled a 1, I would do a stitch to the left. 2 = right, 3 = up, 4 = down, and this time I ignored 5 and 6.
Another cross-stitched space invader.. but this one glows in the dark! I finally got hold of the elusive E940. It's kind of hard to see in the dark though, so think I need to stitch something larger with the thread.

Glowing cross stitch space invader

Glow in the dark space invader
I cross-stitched a space invader. I am intending to glue it onto a mask to cover up a logo I didn't realise was on the mask when I bought it.

Space invader cross stitch

Dizzy

Aug. 20th, 2017 08:06 pm
I'm so Dizzy, my head is spinning.

Dizzy
Poké Ball cross-stitch:

Poké Ball

Hand collage:
Hand

I've mostly been too busy to do National Art Making Month ([livejournal.com profile] naarmamo) this year, but did manage some cross-stitch and a collage.
Here's some cross stitches I did a few weeks ago:

Kickstart

This is part of an Amiga kickstart screen, that appears when you first turn on an Amiga and haven't put a disk in. I made this to wear to the Amiga's 30th anniversary celebration in Peterborough.

Here are some lemmings:

Lemming

Lemming
I completed the SF0 task: Make It Soft, by cross-stitching another QR code:

"Make it soft," I read, and concluded:

This task must be softer: soft as mashed potato, soft as candyfloss, soft as a cuddly Cthulhu.

Like many other great and noble players who have completed this task, I turned to the softness of fabric and thread.

After learning to cross-stitch space invaders and Pac-Man ghosts a few months ago, I learnt to cross-stitch QR codes, by initially following some of the instructions from Instructables: QR code cross-stitch patch.

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I started sewing it while at the Royal Festival Hall, in London. I was at a [livejournal.com profile] theladiesloos meet, and one of the people there was cross-stitching a bug, and the other was altering a zombie-related t-shirt so that it would fit her better.

A girl, a teenage girl, told me what I was sewing was cool.

A group of people started singing and I caught the word, "hell". I presumed they were singing a religious song, telling me I was going to hell, but no, it turned out they were protesting against Shell.

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QR code:
NaArMaMo - Day 20

Blinky, the Pac-Man Ghost:
NaArMaMo - Day 13

Space invader:
NaArMaMo - Day 7

More space invaders:
NaArMaMo - Day 24
On day 19 of [livejournal.com profile] naarmamo, I spent some time creating a pattern for a QR code cross-stitch.

I followed (some of) the instructions from here: Instructables: QR Code Cross Stitch.

What I did to create the pattern:
1. Generated a QR code using a QR code generator.
2. Opened it in GIMP and added a grid. The hardest part of creating the pattern was making the squares line up in the grid properly, so I actually ended up creating a new grid and filling each square in it myself. Then I printed it.

It does actually work as a QR code in real life, so I am happy. Although perhaps I should actually put some content on the website that it links to..

QR Code Cross-Stitch

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