#star wars pattern

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After some revisions and a glaring error in my layout mock up I think I’ve finally decided how it’s gonna be. I forgot I ran a poll about layout and I’m sorry to the one person who voted but I think you’ll agree that this is improved. Oh I also added the hexagon around the First Order logo. Somehow miscounted that three times and STILL ended up graphing the last three lines above the printed grid.

The bottom two lines of Aurebesh are swapped. But they’re literally just laying on top so when I graph it all together in one page it’s easy to fix. I also don’t like how the trooper on the right abruptly ends in this layout. Makes it feel like bad clip art or old school Word Art trick.

I tried to cut the existing helmet at the half point and mirror the image.

Yuck. I had to adjust a lot and I think it looks like a dog nose print. Scrapped that. You can sort of see the next effort at the top left. That turned into

This. The shading is currently meh. But since I can’t draw and I have only ever freehand graphed once before (I put Louise Belcher bunny ears on a bear) I’d say it’s ok. I’ve gotten some positive feedback.

Tomorrow night I have to take some of the ultra fine tip pens with me and transfer the pieces onto one piece of paper. Depending on how high census is and how many PRNs I end up giving it may take tomorrow and Friday. But I don’t know.

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I guess I was experimenting with styles, felt like drawing some random stuff all at once and suddenly things got out of control and I was left out with the whole series of... this ^.

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Having trouble with my layout for my First Order Propaganda cross stitch. I also can’t think of what the words should be.

Here are the two layout options so far:

For the option A the writing would go under the QR code. The overall effect would read more square I think. I would also maybe trim down the circular logo to cut off at the same lines that the troopers end at. I kind of like how it is now but I dunno.

Option B the writing would be across the top and down the right side making it more rectangular. I don’t know if the First Order would “allow” another logo/symbol within their own. Since I don’t even know if the era the symbol is from matches the era those particular stormtroopers come from I don’t particularly care if political party-accuracy is important.

The graph paper is to scale, 18ct per inch if that makes a difference to anyone.

As for the words. Ugh. I have three phrases as possibilities.

1: Strength. Honor. Power. Enlist today

2: Legitimate rule. Legitimate power.

3: All will bow to the First Order. (Accidentally says “now” instead of “bow” but I’ll fix it.

#3 is almost a Hux quote. “All remaining systems will bow to the First Order and will remember this as the last day of the Republic!”

Space will be a factor. I can’t size down the lettering because my Aurebesh graphs are as small as is possible without being just backstitching. I like how 1 and 2 look but I like that 3 is an actual line. I guess I could backstitch in more than one strand and fit more in. We’ll see.

I know this won’t get a lot of traction/interaction but if you’re happening to see this, please vote.

Layout A or B with Line 1, 2, or 3

A1

A2

A3

B1

B2

B3

Other which I will suggest in comments

Voting ended onJan 23

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My ADHD hyper focus has moved on from crochet. Which is unfortunate because I have a sweater started that needs to be done but my brain absolutely will not allow me to work on it. I don’t know how to describe it. I will pick it up to work on it and find myself doing anything and everything to NOT work on it.

I moved on to cross stitch pattern designing. My newest idea is a Star Wars First Order propaganda poster. I’m using elements from someone’s perler bead project, a QR code I googled, and a few pieces I’m adapting on my own.

Where the storm troopers came from:

Star Wars The Force Awakens First Order Stormtroopers pereler beads portrait by sanzosgal (design by get_pixelate… | Perler bead art, Hama b

Star Wars The Force Awakens First Order Stormtroopers perler beads Portrait by sanzosgal (design by get_pixelated) First Order

I don’t know how else to credit it than to post where I got it.

The First Order logo was tough to figure out how I’d do it. The math works but I couldn’t figure out how’d I’d make it into stitching. Then I remembered I have an app that makes diamond dot patterns. So I put a high resolution screenshot in, tweaked it a lot, and I have a workable pattern to integrate into my idea. I also know how to read/write Aurebesh and I previously graphed out what those would look like stitched.

I’m playing with the layout and what the Aurebesh will actually say but the stuff I have graphed out is here:

I’m thinking I’ll put the Order logo behind the troopers like the Pinterest pic was. I’ll center and align the Aurebesh better and put the QR code underneath it so it’s more squared. I

The other idea I had was to make the Order logo bigger behind the troopers and put the code within it, then put the Aurebesh to the side so it’s rectangular. I think I’ll grid the words first (after I choose what to say!) and then play cut/paste.

(Excuse the crap shading in the graph. I needed black, white, and two greys. I had one pencil and a black sharpie pen.)

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