#1: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Feb 23, 2026

One of my son's caregivers has been making crocheting from pixelated images, and that made me think that there might be some synergy with webpbn.

Here is a picture of the project that she is working on now:

She says the info is from "Corner To Corner Crochet" on YouTube. I haven't watched their videos yet, but this one looks like it might have the info about how to do it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjLwyhDDfgk

Anyway, I am intrigued, so I thought it would be neat to post it here.

that's a lovely idea!

I think that PBN puzzles lend themselves well to make needlepoints.

It would be interesting to see some of the black and whites of celebrities.

Great idea!

I'm still thinking about this two days later because I've been crocheting a lot of baby blankets lately. Another option is fillet crochet, rather than C2C. Maybe I'll do one at some point.

When I first started doing these puzzles in Games magazine as a kid it coincided with my mom's cross-stitching phase. That's how I got her into them too, for a little while at least. On to the next crafting phase!

Confession time here. I admit I have taken snap shots of some of these puzzles with the the intent of making them into knitted pictures.

Many years ago I knit a baby blanket from scratch making up pictures by using graph paper and drawing out my ideas, then knitting them into colorful squares I later knit together.

Coolness!
I'd love to see pictures!

I wish I had one. It was a really long time ago. I didn't even save my sketches. Palm slap to the forehead. If it had been knit after I acquired a smart phone, then yes, I would have a picture of it. But this baby blanket was created before cell phones were invented.

Some of the pictures were an owl, ice cream falling off the cone, an airplane, a kite flying in the sky, a rainbow, a smiley face, etc. The fun part was knitting in a scripture blessing around the outside border along with the baby's name and date.

Joanne, that blanket sounds amazing!!!!!

Many forms of pixel art lend themselves well to needlecraft, whether it's crochet, knit, embroidery of various styles, or latch hooking!

Any of the pretty puzzles on this site would do well as charts for something like that.

I will say, though, that all of my major projects (mostly double knit) wouldn't make very fun puzzles!

As a particular favorite if mine, I'd like to offer crochet filet lace as a fantastic medium for translating puzzles here. It even maintains the grid!

Cool!
If you're up for sharing, I'd love to see pictures!

I don't have any of these made, but this conversation reminds me that I've been wondering for a while about the easiest way to post pictures on here. Anyone care to inform me? :)

There is no direct way to post a picture, but if you send them to me, as the admin, I can post them for you. Another option is to post them on another site and put a link to them from here, so people can click on the link to see the picture.

We also have a FB group, with very low traffic, but it's a place to post things and then tell people to look there :)

That's helpful. Thanks, Valerie and Kristen!

Come to think of it, the one place where people can post a photo is in their own profile. You can edit your profile from a tab on the Settings page, or by clicking on your own username in any discussion, and then in the pop-up click on "Edit my profile."

Jessikitty -- I see that you have a link to your husband's profile in your profile. You can also put an at-sign and then his username to link to it. Linking to usernames will eventually work everywhere on this site, but right now it works in only a couple of places on the main webpbn site. The code for it to work everywhere is already on the staging site (and has been there for a couple of years); someday I will copy it over to here.

Good to know, thanks!

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