Beneath the cut is a needlecraft I did based on City of Heroes/Villains as a Christmas present.


I actually started it early in 2012, long before there was any hint of the game closing, which made the eventual delivery bittersweet, since it was now a memorial.

This is a biscornu, or 8-sided pincushion, that I made for iceraptoress. I keep saying I won't do another biscornu, especially a really complicated one, and then I do it anyway. So! This one is a fairly custom design, because it's all the City of Heroes and City of Villains archetype icons. I knew you would all be impressed!

Here is the white side, with all the heroic icons. Upper left is the heroic star of "blueside" - City of Heroes. Then Controller, and Blaster. Middle row is Peacebringer, and Defender. Bottom row is Warshade, Tank, and Scrapper.


On the reverse, on black fabric, are the villainous icons. Top row is Dominator, Brute, and the red spider of "redside" - City of Villains. Middle are the Arachnos Soldier and Widow icons. Bottom row is Corruptor, Stalker and Mastermind.


The gold stars and the gold thread joining them represent Praetoria, whose symbol is the gold star. Yes, I put this much effort into a crafted item!


I had to put all the icons together in a program first, like so, before I could stitch them:


Here's a pic of the "blueside" fabric before assembly. I actually had to start the villain side twice, because the first side was so difficult. I was using outdated programs to try to convert the images to a pattern, which didn't help me at all. pw_pw got me a chart for blue, but I ended up fighting with the programs to get the red side done. dvandom got me the red spider logo, because I couldn't find one that would fit. All the other images came from ParagonWiki.


Also, stitching blacks and dark grays on black fabric? GAH.

Still, I'm very proud of how it turned out, and, yes, all the thought I put into it. Even if I made a craft that only a certain community will even recognize. Let me tell you, people looked at this in progress and had no idea what these were even supposed to represent. ^_^

That's really impressive! Nice work!

Thank you!

Well done!

Thank you very much!

That is fantastic!

Thank you! :)

Wow! As a crafter (cross stitch, quilting, crochet, etc, etc, etc...) I understand how much effort went into that and I'm VERY impressed!!

Well done - and nice pictures so we can see details!

I'd encourage you to publish the pattern under a Creative Commons license and put it up on the Titan boards, if you've a mind to do so.

It *was* a lot of work, but I was very happy with the result.

I hadn't thought of publishing it, I'll look into that. Thank you!

If you do so, please put a link back here on LJ somewhere so it can be found.

Wow...that is TOTALLY awesome!!

Great job!!

Thanks! :)

That's beautifully done.

Thanks very much!

It's just stunning! What fantastic stitchwork you do, not just the styling of it (cause, seriously stylin') but the actual stitches themselves are really fine. I do a wee bit of needlework (or used to) myself, and I admire your skill.

Thank you so much! :) It was a lot of work because of the color gradients and trying to do the dark images on black fabric, but it all worked out. The icons show up best at a distance.

This is awesome, and now I has a melancholy, 'cause I wanna take one of my Widows out to kick some heads.

It also reinforces my decision to do a memorial to CoX myself. Once I get the ~$400 to spare.

I'll definitely be posting a pic to the community once it's done, though.

Thank you! I do still miss City. Kind of weird that this ended up being a memorial art piece, but there you go.