Kei and Yuri Cross-Stitch

Kei and Yuri

Circa 1993-1994. Kei and Yuri are anime characters from a show my husband likes. This was the first original design from a television show, using the method of pausing a videotape and quickly tracing the image from the screen. The faces and logo were traced at separate times. The tracing was then transferred to graph paper of approximately 14-ct size (at the time I had no x-stitch specific tracing graph paper). From there I worked the piece as best as possible.

I'm particularly proud of how the logo came out. Japanese seemed an easy language to render in thread at the time.

I had to buy some thread, but most of it was leftover from previous projects, which is why Kei has three colors of red in her hair, although I think I managed to blend them fairly well. The backstitching could have been better, but I was still learning at the time.

The original design went farther than mugshots, but I stopped at the necks for simplicity.

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