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DMC Color Key: ■ 169 Pewter Light ■ 444 Lemon Dark ■ 647 Beaver Gray Medium ■ 783 Topaz Medium ■ B5200 Snow White

Dimensions: 146 by 98 stitches. Font: 'MicroSerif.ttf' by jeti. Border: Original Work.

beep! beep! I'm a bot that makes samplers out of tumblr posts and my own custom and vintage borders. Patterns uploaded here (when my creator has the time).

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Continuing work on the stitched mockup update: currently drawing texture overlays for each of the six possible stitch sprites.

Any stitch with white or colored dots above it has an overlay.

I am very excited for this update! So many sampler designs look okay as pixel art, but truly come alive when you see them as dimensional, textured pieces. Thread and fabric really do work miracles, and I hope to capture a sliver of that miracle here.

(if you'd rather not see these progress updates, feel free to block 'behind the bot')

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DMC Color Key: ■ 211 Lavender Light ■ 310 Black ■ 967 Apricot Very Light ■ 993 Aquamarine Very Light

Dimensions: 184 by 184 stitches. Font: 'SmackyFormula.ttf' by Hazel Abbiati. Border: Original Work.

beep! beep! I'm a bot that makes samplers out of tumblr posts and my own custom and vintage borders. Patterns uploaded here (when my creator has the time).

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The thread-and-fabric mockup update isn't live yet btw-- will have to hook it up to the tumblr half of the bot later. but it will be soon!

as always, thanks for browsing, and have a nice night on the internet :)

-dev signing off for the night

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samplerbot glitch gallery

not actually a glitch! but the first output of the first draft of the mockup-making function. it's come a long way in the last 24 hours.

output from an early draft of the recoloring function (fix: switched from a hacky PIL method to this library, then adjusted levels and the base textures until everything gelled.)

glitch in the function that chooses text colors (fix: corrected how the bot calculates perceived luminance)

font error (no fix yet; just affects this font. it's an antialiasing error, will investigate later.)

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added colored fabric; fabric color is generated from the original color palette that the border colors come from, and the text color will always be something contrasting-- either black / white, or a sufficiently-dark or -light color from within the original palette.

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added multiple possible 'sprites' for the stitches, with six in total; also made each stitch slightly overflow their assigned grid space. both changes make the sampler feel less rigid and artificial.

also I think the fixes to the color palette math ARE noticeable here-- the demo samplers have had more wins and fewer misses than usual.

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Update notes: another batch of pattern PDFs is up! Regular versions + Pattern Keeper ones.

I also fixed a math error in the DMC color-calculating function.

Actually, math moment incoming:

The bot gets its colors from the PyPalettes library, which is designed primarily for people who want to make good-looking scatterplots and bar graphs. It has a couple thousand color palettes in it, and the bot takes one at random and uses its colors when it makes a sampler.

To convert those colors into DMC ones, it takes each sampler color's RGB colors (like '0, 0, 0' for black, or '255, 255, 255' for white) and treats each as essentially a 3D coordinate-- like with 'x, y, z' coordinates. Then it checks to find which of the existing DMC threads has color coordinates that are closest to it in that 3D space using the distance formula:

√((x₂-x₁)² + (y₂-y₁)² + (z₂-z₁)²)

(if you've made it to high school math, you should recognize this! it's the same as the regular 2D distance formula, but with three variables).

(also the bot doesn't actually bother with the square root, since it doesn't care what the distance is, just which possible distance is smallest).

Anyway I messed it up the first time, and had it cube the binomials instead of square them, which led to some kinda wack negative stuff happening. The effect on the samplers wasn't noticeable, except that some of the samplers had less-harmonious color palettes than they might have.

So-- the samplers might be a little prettier from here on out! Or possibly similarly-pretty, but the math that makes them is nicer, at least. :)

I have some big ideas for things I'd like to add next, but life keeps me busy~

And as always, feel free to @ the bot if you see any cool posts!

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DMC Color Key: ■ 158 Cornflower Blue Very Dark ■ 310 Black ■ 355 Terra Cotta Dark ■ 453 Shell Gray Light ■ 727 Topaz Very Light

Dimensions: 207 by 167 stitches. Font: 'Typecast.ttf' by jeti. Border: Adapted from an archival design by Toni Teschendorff, originally published by F. Gebhardi, Berlin, undated. Courtesy of the Antique Pattern Library.

beep! beep! I'm a bot that makes samplers out of tumblr posts and my own custom and vintage borders. Patterns uploaded here (when my creator has the time).

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DMC Color Key: ■ 14 Apple Green Pale ■ 310 Black ■ 352 Coral Light ■ 3848 Teal Green Medium ■ 754 Peach Light

Dimensions: 139 by 120 stitches. Font: 'Cartridge.ttf' by jeti. Border: Adapted from 'The Priscilla Counted Cross Stitch Book no. 2', 1912, edited by Ethelyn Jones. Courtesy of the Antique Pattern Library.

beep! beep! I'm a bot that makes samplers out of tumblr posts and my own custom and vintage borders. Patterns uploaded here (when my creator has the time).

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DMC Color Key: ■ 336 Navy Blue ■ 498 Red Dark ■ 820 Royal Blue Very Dark ■ B5200 Snow White

Dimensions: 128 by 60 stitches. Font: 'Pixel Times.ttf' by Daymarius. Border: Adapted from Book of Kells

beep! beep! I'm a bot that makes samplers out of tumblr posts and my own custom and vintage borders. Patterns uploaded here (when my creator has the time).

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DMC Color Key: ■ 25 Lavender Ultra Light ■ 310 Black ■ 350 Coral Medium ■ 369 Pistachio Green Very Light

Dimensions: 132 by 120 stitches. Font: 'Astalemtim.ttf' by Daniel Noronha. Border: Original Work.

beep! beep! I'm a bot that makes samplers out of tumblr posts and my own custom and vintage borders. Patterns uploaded here (when my creator has the time).

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DMC Color Key: ■ 14 Apple Green Pale ■ 310 Black ■ 4 Tin Dark

Dimensions: 164 by 74 stitches. Font: 'Contra.ttf' by Patrick Adams. Border: Adapted from 'The Priscilla Counted Cross Stitch Book no. 2', 1912, edited by Ethelyn Jones. Courtesy of the Antique Pattern Library.

beep! beep! I'm a bot that makes samplers out of tumblr posts and my own custom and vintage borders. Patterns uploaded here (when my creator has the time).

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A long post incoming-- introducing: the designs (and designers!) of the 'Cross Stitch for Gaza' bundle!

Including pieces by Tumblr's own @ansitru, @arboret-art, @badstitched, @ddpej, @flourishingghost, @lpanne, @mathysphere, and @parvumautomaton. Thank you so much to the artists who have made this initiative possible-- your talents have blown us away! There are designs of all sorts in the bundle, perfect for any skill level; there's blackwork, and samplers, and pixel pieces, and everything in between. The artists are also from all walks of life-- we have pieces from professional, published designers, as well as from hobbyists sharing their personal designs, and we'd like to welcome a few first-time pattern-makers: to the pixel artists who're working in cross-stitch for the first time, we're so happy to have you! This bundle contains a mix of new and existing patterns; patterns that are newly-made for the bundle (not previously for sale elsewhere) are marked by a ⭐.

The full pattern bundle is available to anyone who donates €15 or more to help Hadeel Mikki and her family in Gaza.

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Two days left to get the Cross Stitch for Gaza bundle! Donation receipt submissions will close at April 25ᵗʰ, 11:59pm eastern time, so if you're interested in getting any of the 63 patterns, head on over to our website to make a donation to Hadeel Mikki and her family in Gaza.

[ Browse the Patterns Here ] [ Donate and get the Bundle Here ]