As part of that event, the JDRF Game2Give team did our own charity streams, which are sort of the\u00a0modern-day equivalent of a TV telethon. I included some cross stitch rewards for big donations — $150 for one character, or $1,000 for a 14-character baby afghan.<\/p>\n
(Clearly I don’t copyedit my own tweets, either, because that should have been “auctioned off a Thimbleweed Park cross stitch afghan<\/em>.” D’oh. Here’s the afghan I was talking about.<\/a>)<\/p>\n We kicked off our fundraising with an Animal Crossing stream<\/a>, so I offered to cross stitch characters from that game. As the event stretched on with no one taking me up on it, I threw in any of the characters from Thimbleweed Park, which I charted<\/a> several years ago after doing PR for that game.<\/p>\n Near the end of the week, someone reached out on Twitter and asked if I would stitch the Dopefish from the 1991 game Commander Keen 4. That’s not a game I’ve played, but I googled it and the character looked simple enough, so I said sure. He made a $150 donation and I got to work.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Low-resolution pixel art works well for cross stitch because one pixel is equivalent to one stitch. Here’s what the Dopefish looks like (at its actual size):<\/p>\n I imported this into KG Chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n The stitch count is 55 x 51. Usually I stitch on high count fabric to make rugs for dollhouses<\/a>, but in this case I wanted to make the fish as big as possible so the donor would get his money’s worth. I stitched it on 11-count Aida (11 stitches per inch), which results in a finished size of about 5″ x 5″. By comparison, I usually stitch petit point rugs on 36- or 40-count fabric.<\/p>\n![](\"\/blog\/images\/2022\/animal-crossing-tweet.jpg\")
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