dA Emoticon: Wink-Razz

dA Emoticon: Wink/Razz

Just a little piece I stitched up for the Crafted Emoticon Contest for ^projecteducate's Artisan Crafts Week.

This little guy was stitched with DMC cotton embroidery floss on 14-count light green Aida from Charles Craft (which is so close to dA green that it's almost scary). Finished size is 1 ¹/₈ inches wide by 1 ¹/₈ inches tall. Total stitching time was 3.5 hours, all of which was done while in the Artisan Crafts chatroom on June 12th.

Design-wise this piece was directly adapted from the "wink/razz" emoticon. Only full cross stitch is used in this design, so it's really quite simple. The shaded effect was achieved by blending the floss in the needle, going from light, to a light-medium blend, to medium, to a medium-dark blend, etc.

The back side of this piece can be seen here: [link]

Other pieces in this pseudo-series can be seen here:
Cuddle: [link]
Glomp: [link]
Love: [link]

I'd like to thank `hprince329, who designed the wink/razz emoticon, as well. (I'd also like to thank *TastyOne, who found out the designer for me!)

If there is interest, I may post the pattern for this little guy.