Hah.

[kiya]

I now have a userpic icon for my family.

It was created by suzimoses, who gave me the original cross-stitch as a wintergift.

That is all.

(Well, not all. I had to shrink the photo down lots and lots to get the image; a larger copy of the same image is here, for those people who want to be completely gobsmacked.)

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[brooksmoses]

To expand on lilairen's explanation, the individual circular emblems are from a book of mythological cross-stitch patterns, although I've forgotten its name and author, but the arrangement and bordering are all original. It's done on 28-count black linen (as suzimoses will point out, a desk lamp with a magnifying glass in it is a very useful tool), and by my rough estimate, has somewhere over 25,000 stitches in it. And it did take most of a year to do; there were times when "forever" didn't seem a bad approximation!

- Brooks