And so begins the cross stitch of doom.

This is a crazy plan. So crazy that it might just work. I have begun a cross stitch of Tim Sale's painting of Peter flying from the TV show Heroes. It will be nearly 30cm by 30cm and will take nearly 30,000 stitches. My fancy cross stitch pattern generator believes it will end up looking something like this:

 As of day one, it was merely a mess of guidelines (and there's the pattern too):



Day two brings slightly more of the image out:




How long this will take is anyone's guess, but I'm quite excited to see what it turns out like. More progress updates coming soon!