Defining my generation

[Chilan]

SOOOoooooOOOoooo...  I knitted  myself a scarf.  It's inspired by that Final Fantasy scarf that was made a while ago...  Except this is Super Mario Bros. 3.  I made it a few months ago, but I just got a digital camera, so I couldn't show it until now!  So... Here ya go.



There's fleece sewn onto the back to make it really really warm.  And I love it. 

[happy cricket]

I want you to know that I will now be a very sad panda for the rest of my entire life because you have one and I do not.   

Excellent work!!

[rostitchery]

WOW!

and what a great idea about putting fleece on the back.

[-Keiko-]

Wow~!

That is just way too cool!  Gotta love the old school games!  ^_^ 

[plumpkin]

That is very cool! Old school Nintendo is definitely a generation definer. Good job!

[Miss_westenra]

That's so amazingly cool, you don't even know. I know some people who would just die if they saw that, then they would ask me to make it!

[alicesonmarie]

yay for video games and knitting!!!!!!! my two passions. i would love to see you charts if you have them 

[relative_error]

sweet.

[Ellisa]

great job! I better not show hubby this one or I'll have to figure out how to make it.

[Speedbump]

Awesomeness! My brother never stops playing that game. And I, not able to play video games worth anything, can only watch. It's a very cute scarf. ^_^

[PrincessJazz]

Super Mario Bros. 3 is the best game ever!  You did an awesome job on this scarf.  I love it!

Jazz

[Nuno930]

Wow, I just flashedback about 15 years  

[fluffysam]

That is adorable! You are very good at knitting! And the fleece on the back is a great idea.. wow!

[GhostAcademy]

That's so awesome.  I always loved that little raccoon suit that mario wears.

[calista]

A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~mazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love supermario! I love your scarf!

[crescendoinblue]

i spent half my life this semester stressing about work and the other half de-stressing with mario 3. amazing.

[Chrislea]

Yes!  Represent the 80s and early 90s!!

[Chilan]

Thanks for the compliments, guys!  I like it because I get to feel instant camaraderie with anyone who compliments it.   

As for the charts...  I'd really have to dig in order to find them, if they still exist.  If I find them, I'll post them!  But... It is pretty easy to draft your own, because Nintendo games are so pixilated, so yeah.  The hardest part is putting it into a rectangular grid.   

[runswithscissors]

I want you to know that I will now be a very sad panda for the rest of my entire life because you have one and I do not. 

Uh, yeah.  My thoughts exactly.  When I saw this scarf, I made some weird sound that can described with this: holy. freakin. crap.  I love this.

[red lights]

That's absolutely amazing. I want one!

[starknits]

love it! i remember all those things i wasn't very good though at that game.

[skwirel]

where would you go to get a good look at the graphics on these games so you can make a graf?

[Chilan]

Uhm..... I just searched on Yahoo and Google images.  Generally searching for specific names is best, like "tanooki suit."  Honestly, you may not want really "good" images, because they go into detail, and that is just a pain.  The images that I used were actually really small.  I have no knowledge at all of picture size, but full size, on my screen they were about half an inch big.  I would use Photo Editor and scale it up.  When it did that, it made all those little pixils muchn bigger.  After a few trial and errors, you can get the pixil squares to be about as big as the grid.  So...  That was a lot of rambling.  Did that help at all?   

[skwirel]

yup, that did. thanks so much!

[atomikpop]

heh heh, i'm glad the FF scarf inspired you.
your work is absolutely wonderful! great choice on the charts!

[theresat]

Eek!  I love it!  You've inspired me. 

Too bad I'm not allowed to buy any more yarn until I finish at least some of my projects that are still on the needles. 

Maybe I have the right colors in my stash...hmmmm.