Chibi-Style Severus Snape

Serious warning - Beware the Cute!



Despite the errors in the pattern - I've since learned that the one on the designer's blog is updated from the one I have - and the weird skin tones - also corrected, I've been told - I think he turned out adorable!

This pattern is from a site called Hazel's Farm, that I seem to have lost the link to but I'll post it when I find it - I have it saved in my old bookmarks but there are a lot of those!  There are many more Harry Potter Chibis there, although none of the truly bad guys are among them. (Too bad, 'cause I think a Chibi Lucius Malfoy would be adorable, too!)  I don't know if I'll stitch any more of them or not, though I wouldn't be surprised because I have an OCD thing about sets.  And I like Sirius Black.  If you go looking for it, the site is in French and the HP Chibis are pretty far back.

Onward, onward!  Must finish more thiiiiings!!!

Maybe a Bit Faster

Loki and Thor are now done:


Very handsome!  I stitched them and the next two Sprites on light blue fabric.  Looks grey, but it isn't.

I stitched two more outlines - Mr Scary-Skull-Face and Mr Could-Be-Anybody



Then turned them into Iron Man and Captain America.  I love Sprites!  Thanks, Missy!


I stitched Iron Man's arc reactor with bright white rayon floss for a little extra glow.  You can tell a little in the picture - the other white is B5200 - and it looks great in real life!

I finished the stocking:



And I had some issues with the Chibi of Severus, the main one being....


AAAAGGHHH!  He looks terrifying!  LOL!!! I'm hoping he improves with the other skin shade, otherwise I'm ripping that out and stitching some lighter color.  My other issue was that his eyebrows were in the darkest skin tone (actually a light brown) on the pattern, and that didn't look right - so I went and looked at the finished pic, and yup, they were supposed to be black.  Much better.

And that's mostly it, 'cause I ended up working a few extra shifts and got very little done on the cat-chair.

This weekend is IHSW, so I'm pulling Lovers back out for a few days - so next Wednesday will be kinda skimpy on Sprint-Stitching progress.  Ah, well.

A Little Further

I have finished 'Warm Hearts'.




I have done all the black on Chibi-Sev:




I have (finally) gotten around to finishing Loki's outline and I did Thor's, too:


They would have a lot more colors if I would ever remember to take the other floss to work with me XD


And I've filled in some more of the chair on 'Home is Where the Cat Is'.



By next Wednesday, I hope to show off at least four finished Sprites, all the stitching on the cat & chair, and a finished stocking, at the very least.  Oh, and some more done on Sev.

More Like Stumbling

This is supposed to be Olympic-Sprinting style stitching... I fail.

Here's 'Warm Hearts' so far - almost done:


And here's a stocking ornament, maybe halfway:


And One-Eyed Chibi-Severus, not even halfway:


I also started the sprite of Loki, got his outline almost done, then realized I'd grabbed a skein of 939 instead of 310.  So I had to pull it all out.  God of Mischief... I should have known it was going too easy!

It might help if I did one at a time?  Nah... where's the fun in that? LOL!

One Shiny Potion

Chibi-Sev is finished!



I think. I may go back and make the grey pupil on his left eye one stitch longer. It looks sort of odd to me... I can't make up my mind.

The potion is a lot darker than it was originally charted; I could only find three shades of green in that satin-floss. It was not fun to work with, but the result is very shiny IRL and that's what I wanted. So yay!

I forgot to measure him, but he's about seven inches tall, stitched with two strands of DMC on 18ct ivory fabric. He makes number 4 out of 30 done for my stiching challenges!

After Sev was done, I decided to work on a small project before leaping into Frederick - I tried my Prairie Schooler Santa (1984) and got this far:



Before I said 'forget it'. I'm just not in a Christmas-stichy mood. I'll see what else strikes my fancy tonight :D I may just go on to Frederick and forget the small project for now.

More Progress! (and maybe setbacks?)

I don't have Chibi-Sev quite finished - the silky floss for his potion is a bugger to work with, so I'm taking it slow. But here's how he looked when I had all the regular floss done:



I have also finished two more of Missy's wee Sprites! I know I said I was going to stitch Loz and Yazoo next but instead I finished off the Saiyuki boys:

Hakkai


and Goku



And the setback... I found myself unable to resist the new HAED freebie SAL. This is the pattern I chose:

Ice Wind SK by Linda Tso

Like I needed another project, especially another HAED! XD

Another Shade of Grey

I have added another shade of grey to my Chibi-pic of Severus Snape. He looked like this:


And now he looks like this:


My flash wasn't working, so the pic is a little dark. Only one shade of grey to go - then two skin tones, a wee bit of white, and the green potion. I'm looking forward to the potion; it'll be the first time I use Rayon threads. Or whatever they're called now. They look very shiny and slick, so I think they're potion-perfect :D

With so little left to do, he should be a finish this week! And that will be four of my challenge pieces done. Next I'm going to work on my Rapture SK, and some more of Fred.

Severus & the Snowman

Sounds like a fanfic title, lol!

Here's my ornament kit, all done:

It's called 'Ho-Ho Snowman'. Gotta love these names!


And here's my progress on Chibi-Sev - since he isn't very big and has only about 12 colors, I'm stitching each color completely, then moving on to the next.

One grey:


Two greys:


Three greys:

He looks like he stood to close to Neville's cauldron of Bleaching Solution XD
I have two more greys, the whites of his eyes & shirt edges, the 3 greens of his potion, and the two skin tones left.

Little Things

Here are some of the little things I had done.

Another Christmas ornament (still working on all those little kits):

Two very small additions to Mary Wigham:

And a 'chibi' style pic of Snape, pattern from PCStitch. I've stitched all the black on him first, just to see how that went. (Pic was used with artist's permission)

I've been working away at the black on Spike but I don't want to post another pic of him until I have more done. I've also been working on HAEDs - my new SAL SK and a big project. I've also finished another Bride's Tree ornie, but I forgot to take a picture of it.