- Chart by Olga Kynaeva, sorry no longer on Etsy
- Materials: Light Olive Belfast (Zweigart), DMC
- Size: 13.5″ x 20.25″ inches
- Time to stitch: 25 days in 2023
Presenting a large piece I did for my son’s room! 
The chart is fine, well done, just quite long (16 pages). Both color and B&W versions of the chart are included, which is nice. A rainbow of DMC colors is employed and the adaptation of pixel characters to cross stitch is excellent. I’m sorry that Olga K’s etsy shop is no longer available, I’d love to stitch more of her designs. She has several charts available on mybobbin, but not this one. Despite Minecraft’s large size, there is plenty of negative space, and very little confetti, so I was able to maintain a good pace. There is quite a lot of empty space near the bottom, above the small flowers, so I added in my son’s name and a couple “Minecraft style” hearts.
As for the materials, I couldn’t be happier with the light Olive Belfast, it’s the perfect Minecraft “grassy” green, and all the elements pop with the help of backstitch, as charted. Some of the elements have black cross stitch edges, too. There are no fancy threads, just DMC, and that is fine. There’s no sparkle in Minecraft, as far as I’m aware! The design does fit on a fat quarter of 32/16 count, which I appreciate.
My favorite part is probably the row of weapons and tools at the top. The food items near the bottom were a lot of fun too. As for the characters, the Enderman (the tall black one) are the Blaze (with fire) are suitably creepy. The yellow cat is pretty cute, and the treasure chest almost glows. I hope my son appreciates it as much I do.
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