Properly oriented Pokéball (white side down)
Ben has a friend/co-worker that is majorly into Pokémon. He also commented that I should make him a pokémon laptop case. While I could have gone with something simple like a three color pokéball design, naturally I didn’t go with JUST a pokéball design.
So I employed the finest in friend espionage to uncover which was his favorite Pokémonster.
Naturally he didn’t like something simple likeJigglypuff or everyone’s meme favorite Mudkip; his favorite was Rapidash, a flaming unicorn type.
Game Sprite of Rapidash
On the plus side game characters are all pixel based sprites, which makes pixelating an image into a stitch chart relatively easy. 1 pixel = 1 stitch. So finding a sprite image of Rapidash wasn’t too difficult.
However, game design and development has come a long way in building up from things like Space invaders of 11 pixels and one color creatures to the mighty Rapidash with his 80 by 80 pixels sprite with multiple colors even for shading.
So I started knitting, but when I finally got the completed Rapidash panel side done, it was clear that this was not going to be small enough to be a laptop case. And so a messenger bag design was born. On the back side, with the layered fleece behind it being the laptop zipper pocket was the Rapidash side of the bag.
Rapidash sprite in knit
I used some bouclé yarn in autumn colors for my fire details, and mixed a strand of light colored needlepoint yarn with my darker beige in places to make an in-between shading spaces. My first attempt was to knit with all these colors going all the time but it was rather chaotic, so I stuck with doing a stitch over my red and white stitches in the end.
The other side was a rather simple Pokéball design with a giant silver painted button for a clasp.
Pokébag with button clasp
Inside, the bag is double fleece lined (red on top of white) which enabled the feature of a zippered laptop sleeve on one side and a double pocket for Kindle and 3DS on the button side of the bag.
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Hi,
I wa sjust wondering where you found a picture of the sprite big enough to count the pixels.
I’m making a pokemon blanket for my friend and I want to make up some stitch charts but I can’t find any large pictures that I could count from
Thanks
The sprite in the post is the actual one I used. All I did was zoom in on the image until it was easier to identify each pixel and added guidelines to break down the whole image into 5×5 squares as my chart.
Here’s a link to what I stitched from:
Click to access output.pdf
I can crochet but i can’t knit do you think it’s possible to turn this tote bag into a crochet pattern I have a cousin who would love it, if you and the friend you made it for don’t mind that is?
I confess I am a terrible crocheter, but if you look at my other comment reply to this post you can see the image I was working from. Its just an enlarged pixel graph of the actual sprite. In knitting each square on the graph is 5×5 stitches. I do not know how that would translate to crochet, but you are welcome to try it out.