# Weird cross-stitch motif request. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-cross-stitch-motif-request/418642 "2007-09-10T02:45:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-cross-stitch-motif-request/418642/1 "2007-09-10T02:45:30Z")
For quite some time now, I have wanted to cross-stitch a motto for our home. It’s the motto of the Madras Public Library: “To be literate is to possess the cow of plenty.” Greatest motto ever, right? Yes. But I need a good cow image, or possibly something nicely Indian-looking. ([Here](http://www.flickr.com/photos/tuttlibrary/95098376/) is an image of the original picture.) I have had no luck so far; I don’t want a cow that looks too American and country-cute, this being an Indian cow of plenty. I’ve looked around for Indian-style cross-stitch patterns, which are a little on the scarce side, and have found very nice Lakshmi and Ganesh images that are way too large, and that’s it. So if anyone knows of a good image that might work, please let me know. I’m sure this thread will sink like a stone, but hey, I’ll give it a try! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-cross-stitch-motif-request/418642/2 "2007-09-10T04:06:57Z")
I live in Fort Worth, Texas, and our city logo is a longhorn head. Perhaps you’d like to use it. [http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.longhorn.com.au/Longhorn\_windows.jpg&imgrefurl=http://the12thmanchild.blogspot.com/2007/01/ut-qbs-in-short-supply-ut-lawyers-not.html&h=225&w=230&sz=9&hl=en&start=15&um=1&tbnid=LbxdlLj6iq1DfM:&tbnh=106&tbnw=108&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522fort%2Bworth%2522%2Btexas%2Blonghorn%2Blogo%26svnum%3D100%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DDNa%26sa%3DN](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.longhorn.com.au/Longhorn_windows.jpg&imgrefurl=http://the12thmanchild.blogspot.com/2007/01/ut-qbs-in-short-supply-ut-lawyers-not.html&h=225&w=230&sz=9&hl=en&start=15&um=1&tbnid=LbxdlLj6iq1DfM:&tbnh=106&tbnw=108&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522fort%2Bworth%2522%2Btexas%2Blonghorn%2Blogo%26svnum%3D100%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DDNa%26sa%3DN) I Googled ’ “fort worth” texas longhorn logo’ images. It’s a nice simple design, and you can easily adapt it to cross stitch. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-cross-stitch-motif-request/418642/3 "2007-09-10T05:03:14Z")
Okay, this will take me a little while, but in case you feel like doing it yourself: There are places that will take a picture and convert it to pixels. aka cross stitch. I think you can do it with photoshop too, or gimp if you are all about the free stuff like I am. I will look, and post again when I find something, but try googling stuff like “picture convert cross stitch” and the like. eta: I tried it and got a lot of neat stuff > **[Make your own cross stitch pattern chart from a photo in 5 minutes! - Great as...](https://www.picturecraftwork.com/en/)** > > Online cross stitch pattern maker. From photo, picture or image in 5 minutes. No software required. this looks okay; you can keep looking around though