I want to cry
02-09-2011, 04:20 PM
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i love your zelda ideas. i've had to make the sword and sheild several times for halloween as well as the costume. my oldest has every zelda game and still has his original nintendo ones. he's 21 now and still the gamer. i showed him the windows and your posts and he is impressed. in fact, he's hinted several times that he thinks "I" could do that. i don't. i don't have the patience, but i think you are doing a great job and i can't wait to see the finished product. good luck.
02-09-2011, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Flying_V_Goddess
For those following my massive Zelda quilting project, I am very close to color matching all ther various colors in one of my wallhangings...10 out of 14.
A lot of the help of color matching was achieved with http://moda.fabricmatcher.com/. I had made color keys of each of the windows and then ran it through the fabric matcher website, selected Moda marbles as the fabric line, and out of the results that were given to me I looked through them to see which fabric was the closest match to the color. When I found one that looked close to what I was looking for I'd pull up the image of the stained glass window on Photoshop, delete the sections of that color from the left side of the window, put the image of the fabric on a layer underneath the window image (it would peek through the sections I cut out), and see if it matched the color on the right side of the window. If I got a match I wrote down the 4 digit fabric product ID.
In other words, this took me a long time to do. At least a full hour total on the one I almost completely matched. Probably more like two.
So I just went onto Hancock's of Paducah to see the availability of some of these fabrics. Out of the ten I had found for this image I could not find a single one. HOP has the biggest selection of Moda Marbles that I know of (12 pages, 80 results a page) so I'm shocked. I typed in the number. I typed in the number with "moda marble" or "marble". Nothing. I went back to the fabric matcher website and looked at the fabrics again to see if maybe they listed the color's specific name...it didn't get more specific than "red" or "yellow". Nothing like "burgundy" or "sunshine". The website with the fabric matcher doesn't actually sell the fabric or can tell me where I might be able to buy the fabric. Just to be sure the website wasn't giving me the wrong numbers I went to their line of Moda Marbles, pulled the number on the first fabric that popped up, and typed it into the search box on Hancocks........."Christmas red" comes up on Hancocks and both images match.
I want to cry. The hardest part of this project is trying to match the 10+ colors found in the eight stained glass quilted wall hangings I'm attempting to make. And it was EXHAUSTING to find the ones I did find mostly because the windows are centered around one color and have so many different shades of that color its ridiculous. The one I was almost done with kind of makes me want to never look at another shade of pink or yellowish brown ever again. When I was looking for colors I'd have to take breaks because my brain would get worn out from looking at a lot of the same color in different shades. So I want to break down because all of this mentally exhausting work I did for my project was for nothing.
A lot of the help of color matching was achieved with http://moda.fabricmatcher.com/. I had made color keys of each of the windows and then ran it through the fabric matcher website, selected Moda marbles as the fabric line, and out of the results that were given to me I looked through them to see which fabric was the closest match to the color. When I found one that looked close to what I was looking for I'd pull up the image of the stained glass window on Photoshop, delete the sections of that color from the left side of the window, put the image of the fabric on a layer underneath the window image (it would peek through the sections I cut out), and see if it matched the color on the right side of the window. If I got a match I wrote down the 4 digit fabric product ID.
In other words, this took me a long time to do. At least a full hour total on the one I almost completely matched. Probably more like two.
So I just went onto Hancock's of Paducah to see the availability of some of these fabrics. Out of the ten I had found for this image I could not find a single one. HOP has the biggest selection of Moda Marbles that I know of (12 pages, 80 results a page) so I'm shocked. I typed in the number. I typed in the number with "moda marble" or "marble". Nothing. I went back to the fabric matcher website and looked at the fabrics again to see if maybe they listed the color's specific name...it didn't get more specific than "red" or "yellow". Nothing like "burgundy" or "sunshine". The website with the fabric matcher doesn't actually sell the fabric or can tell me where I might be able to buy the fabric. Just to be sure the website wasn't giving me the wrong numbers I went to their line of Moda Marbles, pulled the number on the first fabric that popped up, and typed it into the search box on Hancocks........."Christmas red" comes up on Hancocks and both images match.
I want to cry. The hardest part of this project is trying to match the 10+ colors found in the eight stained glass quilted wall hangings I'm attempting to make. And it was EXHAUSTING to find the ones I did find mostly because the windows are centered around one color and have so many different shades of that color its ridiculous. The one I was almost done with kind of makes me want to never look at another shade of pink or yellowish brown ever again. When I was looking for colors I'd have to take breaks because my brain would get worn out from looking at a lot of the same color in different shades. So I want to break down because all of this mentally exhausting work I did for my project was for nothing.
02-10-2011, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by GrandmaAva
What is the Zelda project, please ?
Originally Posted by ktmo815
can you post what you're working on so we can see it, please
For those not familiar with the gaming world, The Legend of Zelda (or Zelda for short) is one of Nintendo's longest game series.
In the game LOZ: Ocarina of Time there are seven sages that you have to find and awaken as they have the power to seal away Ganondorf (or Ganon when he's in pig form) to the Sacred Realm. In LOZ: Wind Waker, as an Easter egg, the room where you find the Master Sword depicts six of the sages, the Triforce, and Ganon in stained glass windows.
[IMG]http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...s/RauruTWW.png[/IMG][IMG]http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...s/SariaTWW.png[/IMG][IMG]http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...DaruniaTWW.png[/IMG]
(Rauru, Saria, Darunia)
[IMG]http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...ss/RutoTWW.png[/IMG][IMG]http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...ss/ImpaTWW.png[/IMG][IMG]http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...NabooruTWW.png[/IMG]
(Ruto, Impa, Nabooru...the last one is the one I almost found all the fabrics for before finding I couldn't find them for sale)
[IMG]http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q.../Ganoncopy.jpg[/IMG]
(Ganon)
(don't have a picture up of the Triforce window)
A few years ago around when I first started quilting and after I learned about stained glass quilts I had this idea to make those windows into wallhangings. And a quilted version of the sea map from the game as well. And last summer I thought of cross stitching the images in the beginning of the game summerizing the story of Ocarina of Time and telling the events of what happened afterwards. So actually The Zelda Project is several projects, but right now I'm working on the stained glass windows (and later the map) as I promised myself I would get the map and at least one of the windows done this year because I have been putting it off so long.
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