This is project I made about 6 years ago, but I wasn’t on Cster anymore, so I figure I’ll post it here so people can see it!
So the backstory is that my friend’s dog, Oakley had passed in his sleep at the age of 15. He had been her companion since before her marriage, through miscarriages, and after the birth of her only daughter. She was heartbroken at having to say goodbye to him. I approached a group of mutual friends and asked if they would like to chip in for a present for her – if they could help me pay for yarn and shipping, I would make this blanket and send it to her as a gift from all of us.
I used Caron Simply Soft, which gave it a nice drape and sheen and J Tunisian hook. I did some sneaky FB stalking and found a cute picture of Oakley wearing a party hat to recreate. I can’t remember the online program I used to convert the picture into pixels. It had a weird name.
No, I want to say it was like some math equation or something. The picture-stitch conversion part of it was kind of a side project to a completely unrelated and uncrafty website.
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(In a world where you can be anything, be kind.)
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This is the best and the most!
(I like to say that, even though it doesn’t “make sense.”)
She was! One of our friends gave her husband the heads-up and asked him to film her opening it so we could all see. She just loved it! She told me later that their daughter (who was 12ish at the time) always wanted to cuddle with it.
hahaha You know it! All the color switching. The back of the afghan was like a giant snarl of colored spaghetti!
This is the only site I know of that converts pictures to pixelated images. You can even select how many pixels across (how detailed) you want the final image to be.
Thanks, @sheepBlue and @gozer! When I was scrolling through my friend’s pics on FB trying to find a good one, I got to this with the doggie in his party hat and instantly knew it was the one! So when they look at it they would have fun memories of him. On the reveal video when she opened it, her whole family got excited when they recognized when the picture was from. That made my day!
beautiful and personal!