Project: Scanty Akuma

Other than the lost and unfinished project from the kit I had twelve or so years ago, the first project I started was of Scanty Akuma, from the anime series Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. I started it in June 2011, when I was a very big fan of the show, and after many hiatuses, finally finished it in early December 2012.

I made a pattern from this image with Photoshop's "Patchwork" filter

Using Phtotoshop's "Patchwork" filter is a bit inconvenient, as it turns out -- some squares became a completely different colour, such as her collar going from brown to burgundy; other squares blended in and become the wrong colour, too, such as her eyelashes looking like the hair outline in the pattern -- but it's all right, I still like the way it turned out.

The finished cross-stitch. You can tell it's from a newbie, I'm sure.

It was stitched on 11-count Aida fabric, the rest of which I've somehow lost. The floss was DMC, Iris, and Designs for the Needle. Later patterns I make will have better colour selection.

This may be for sale on Etsy as soon as I have eight to ten listings ready. I will make a blog post concerning that at a later date.