Looking for a silkie cross stitch pattern

[Ky Chicken Fan]

Hi all,
It has been years since I did cross stitch, but I was thinking the other day I would like to get back into it when I get these new coops done.

I am looking for a silkie pattern. I found a reference on a website that says a pattern was in the Apr. 2005 issue of Cross Stitch Crazy. Has anyone seen it, and is it any good? Any idea where I can find one? Thanks!

 

[Ky Chicken Fan]

Still looking.... anyone?

 

[ems_chick]

dont know but i would love to have it too

 

[Dancing]

I have a cross stitch maker soft ware program. If you want to send me a photo, I can run it through the software and see what comes from it.

Let me know how many stitches per inch you want to do (14, 22, and 24 are most common) and how big of a finished peice you want it to be.

Also, this program will put in a HUGE number of colors (up to 200) so it is really detailed but no back stitching/outlining. I can do some editing to lower the color count but the lower the color count, the less detailed it will be. It will give a thread count for each color and the color list for the floss.

Can't make any guarentees that the photo will work well as a cross stitch pattern but I'll give it a try.

I'll do unedited (200 color) for free but if you want the colors reduced (something I have to do manually and it takes time) then I'll offer a reasonable price.

Here are some examples (this pic was borrowed from a "free pictures" website. The format I saved these in doesn't do a very good job with the pics for posting...the actual looks much better. Example...in the "virtual stitches" of the cross stitch pattern, it almost looks like it is plaid but it's really not. This is just to give you an idea of what my software can do. This is set for 22 stitches per inch.

This is the original photo

This is unedited with 200 colors
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.../cross stitch/chickencrossstitch200colors.jpg

This is edited to 150 colors
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/DancingwatersDesigns/cross stitch/chicken150colors.jpg

And for this photo, the minimum colors I would recommend...98
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/DancingwatersDesigns/cross stitch/chicken98colors.jpg

email the photos to me at [email protected]

 

[Ky Chicken Fan]

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That is very sweet of you to offer. I will have to go downstairs and look through the cabinet I have all that stuff stored in and see what count cloth I have left. I haven't done any cross stitch for years, but I thought it would be something different to do for a change, I used to like it a lot. What do you think of a "normal sized" pic of the one I just took for my avatar? Think it would come out ok? I'll look around and see what I have and get back with you soon. Thanks again!

 

[Shared Acres]

I would love one too.

Thanks for the offer!

 

[GracefulBantams]

What do you charge for a specialized work (the number of colors I want, and everything)? Thanks

 

[Dancing]

That is so hard to answer without seeing the pic and knowing how much editing would need to be done.

 

[artsyrobin]

Old old post, but did anyone find one?