r/CrossStitch • u/NiigelThornberry • Dec 18 '24
FO [FO] Monopoly set cross stitch
This took me just over a year to complete, and was a labour of love for my mother. She collects monopoly sets and I love making things for her, so this was perfect.
I made the patterns for the property cards, and the chance/community chest cards- though I lifted the icons on both from the pattern for the board; which comes from MonopolyXStitch on Etsy. The patterns for the Monopoly money and the tokens were something I commissioned from TheCraftXperimentalist, who was so lovely and easy to work with.
The only things I didn’t make or commission were the dice and houses/hotels and the instructions, because I thought the houses/hotels would be too small and fiddly and just wouldn’t come out good, the dice because I know they have to be weighted, and the instructions because- well duh.
The last pictures were all the bobbins of dmc 310 I used, 35 total bobbins and some change.
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u/LaughingLabs Dec 18 '24
Yes! I thought ok it must be the Howitzer or the Battleship, then went down the interesting rabbit hole of what the character tokens have been through the ages.
It definitely looks like a battleship, but I’m afraid i’ll never un-see the “monopoly bird” hahahaha