Fangirl Stitches: Choose your faction

Sunday, 28 June 2015

Choose your faction - it's a new pattern!

It took me a while to discover the Divergent book series. If you've read my 2015 Reading Challenge post, you'll know the story. If not, let me share it again:

I avoided this series for a long time, book and film. Some people were describing it as "the new Twilight" (which I refuse to read) and others were describing it as a poor copy of The Hunger Games (which I loved, so I didn't want to read a poor copy of it). My housemate Bek had bought the book earlier this year and was telling me how much she'd enjoyed reading it. Note: Bek doesn't read. She just doesn't. I can probably count the number of books she's read on my fingers. For her to a) have actually read the book and b) enjoyed it made me think "I have to read this book". I borrowed it off her and read it in about two days. Great concept - a bit Hunger Games meets Brave New World. The rest of the series has been added to my 'to read' list.

I've since read the second in the series, and watched the first film. I'm still playing catch-up, however that didn't stop me designing a Divergent cross stitch pattern or 3.

I chose the wrong fabric colour so the white writing only shows up
in certain light/angles. Whoops.

I went a couple of ways with this new pattern: there's a male and female version, and a combined version. To make things even more interesting, I've done this pattern in two different styles: the standard pixel style, and the more realistic style with quarter stitches, as seen in the Once Upon A Time pattern, so you can choose your favourite.