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A is for Aro Pixel Art Icon Set

Handdrawn illustration of a mountain road scene with trees in the foreground and bushes in the background. Scene is overlaid with the dark green/light green/white/grey/black stripes of the aro pride flag. The text Aro Worlds Resources sits across the image in a black, antique handdrawn type, separated by two ornate Victorian-style black dividers.
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Continuing in my quest to post something each day of @aggressivelyarospec‘s Aggressively Arospectacular 2021 event, today’s offering is for folks who can’t cross stitch their own pride patches: a set of pixel art icons and digital stickers based on my 10 x 12 aro alphabet letters.

A pixel art icon of the lower-case letter "a" surrounded by a square frame on a black background. Both frame and letter are striped in the colours of the aegoromantic flag (black/greey/white/green).
Aegoromantic
A pixel art icon of the lower-case letter "a" surrounded by a square frame on a black background. Both frame and letter are striped in the colours of the aroace/aroace spec flag (mint/white/purple/navy).
Aro-Ace Spec
A pixel art icon of the lower-case letter "a" surrounded by a square frame on a black background. Both frame and letter are striped in the colours of the aro spec flag (teal/olive/light green/cream/red/maroon).
Aro-Spec
A pixel art icon of the lower-case letter "c" surrounded by a square frame on a black background. Both frame and letter are striped in the colours of the cupioromantic flag (grey/lavender/white/pastel pink).
Cupioromantic
A pixel art icon of the lower-case letter "d" surrounded by a square frame on a black background. Both frame and letter are striped in the colours of the demiromantic flag (grey/white/green/black with black rhombus).
Demiromantic
A pixel art icon of the lower-case letter "f" surrounded by a square frame on a black background. Both frame and letter are striped in the colours of the frayromantic flag (blue/cyan/white/grey).
Frayromantic
A pixel art icon of the upper-case letter "i" surrounded by a square frame on a black background. Both frame and letter are striped in the colours of the idemromantic flag (grey/mint/white/coral).
Idemromantic
A pixel art icon of the lower-case letter "l" surrounded by a square frame on a black background. Both frame and letter are striped in the colours of the lithromantic flag (lime/yellow/grey).
Lithromantic
A pixel art icon of the lower-case letter "o" surrounded by a square frame on a black background. Both frame and letter are striped in the colours of the oriented aro-ace flag (navy/blue/white/aqua).
Oriented Aro-Ace
A pixel art icon of the lower-case letter "p" surrounded by a square frame on a black background. Both frame and letter are striped in the colours of the platoniromantic flag (orange/blue-grey/grey/black).
Platoniromantic
A pixel art icon of the upper-case letter "q" surrounded by a square frame on a black background. Both frame and letter are striped in the colours of the quoiromantic flag (black/lime/cyan/grey).
Quoiromantic
A pixel art icon of the lower-case letter "r" surrounded by a square frame on a black background. Both frame and letter are striped in the colours of the recipromantic flag (red/pink/white/black).
Recipromantic

These stickers are available for personal or non-commercial use with credit to one of my accounts.

If you’re after identities not shown above, or simplified (no border or drop shadow) versions better for Tumblr icons, please head over to Aro Arrows! I’m now posting images in icon and sticker styles for a variety of aromantic-spectrum and related flags with three, four, six and twelve horizontal stripes.

Pride Patch Tutorial: Aromantic Alphabet, Part Two

Six digitally-created versions of cross stitch pride patches, arranged in two rows of three, against a background of a textured partially-translucent aromantic pride flag. Text between the two rows reads Aro Pride Patches in black type. Patches include a rectangular patch in aroflux zigzag stripes, an idemromantic heart, an aro flag text patch reading "aro", a square in quoiromantic stripes, an arrow design in allo-aro colours and a second arrow in nebularomantic colours.
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Are you an aromantic or otherwise queer person wanting letter patches using pride flags with three, four, six or even twelve horizontal stripes? Are you craving patches that read “cupioromantic” or “oriented aroace”? Do you yearn to sew a “fuck the binary” patch in the colours of the non-binary pride flag? I now have frame-patch patterns suitable for three, four and six-stripe flags plus a complete rescaling of my five-stripe lower-case alphabet!

Four cross stitch patches sitting on a blue microfibre blanket. All feature pixel-style letters divided into four or six horizontal stripes, sewn in the colours of various pride flags. The top patch reads "quoi" in the colours of the quoiromantic flag, sewn on a teal background with a blue buttonhole-stitch border. The left-hand patch is sewn on plastic canvas and features a "Q" in rainbow stripes on a black background; it hangs from a silver keychain. The centre patch is an "I" in the colours of the idemromantic flag on a light mint background with an aqua buttonhole stitch border. The right-hand patch is an "a" in the colours of an aromantic-spectrum pride flag on a black background with a black buttonhole stitch border. Both "I" and "a" patches have a frame surrounding the letter in the colours of their respective pride flags; the "Q" keychain doesn't.

These rescaled patterns will let you stitch words and letters in the colours of any horizontal three, four, six and twelve-stripe flag design. Every letter also fits inside the new 10 x 12 block version of my A is for Aro frame pattern, massively expanding the range of identities encompassed by my icon-style letter patches.

You’ll need familiarity with cross stitch (full crosses and fractional stitches) and backstitch to make unedged patches, along with a buttonhole/closed blanket stitch to make the edged patches shown above. The first instalment of this patch tutorial series demonstrates cross and blanket/buttonhole stitch, while the second covers backstitch.

Folks after patterns suitable for five and ten-stripe pride flags should check out my 8 x 10 Aro Alphabet and my 8 x 10 Letter Patch tutorials.

Continue reading “Pride Patch Tutorial: Aromantic Alphabet, Part Two” →

Pride Patch Patterns: (Remade) Aro Text

Text reading "pride patch patterns" against a grey grid background. The words pride and pattern are written in a black handdrawn/script font and outlined with white. The word patch is drawn pixel-style like a cross stitch pattern and filled in with the green/light green/white/grey/black stripes of the aromantic flag.
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In my days of chronic pain and familial interruption, I found patch patterns easiest to create. I started by sharing a handful of new and expanded/variant pattens with my Patreon supporters … and then, on a bit of a Photoshop roll, reworked some of my older patterns with needed letter-shape and template changes.

Cross stitch pattern with the text aro in lower-case lettering, striped in the colours of the dark green/light green/white/grey/black aromantic flag, on a dark maroon background. Letters are outlined in green.
Cross stitch pattern with the text aro in lower-case lettering, striped in the colours of the dark green/light green/white/grey/black aromantic flag. Letters are outlined in dark green against a maroon background.

(I created my original lower-case “aro” pattern before a complete lower-case flag-stripe alphabet with standardised letter width. Inconsistencies between old pattern and new alphabet, though, make it difficult to use said pattern as a base for custom lower-case text. Time for an update!)

Due to pain limitations, I again offer a collection of cross stitch text patterns without stitched examples. Folks wishing to stitch the “abro”, “aro”, “alloaro” and “aroace” patterns can find finished examples on parts one and two of my text patch miniseries, but please expect slight differences from the updated designs.

All previous patterns are available at my new pattern gallery. Folks who need help with materials, stitching, finishing or attaching patches should check out my tutorial master page.

Continue reading “Pride Patch Patterns: (Remade) Aro Text” →

Pride Patch Tutorial: Aro Text, Part Five

Six digitally-created versions of cross stitch pride patches, arranged in two rows of three, against a background of a textured partially-translucent aromantic pride flag. Text between the two rows reads Aro Pride Patches in black type. Patches include a rectangular patch in aroflux zigzag stripes, an idemromantic heart, an aro flag text patch reading "aro", a square in quoiromantic stripes, an arrow design in allo-aro colours and a second arrow in nebularomantic colours.
~ K. A. ~ Leave a comment

Part five in this text patch miniseries provides a collection of patterns for pride flags with three, four and six horizontal stripes. Now an even greater diversity of aromantics can celebrate Aro Week by making their own cross stitch pride patches!

Four cross stitch patches, three finished and one unfinished, sitting on a blue microfibre blanket. All feature block capital letters sewn in their respective pride flags: apl (aplatonic), quoi (quoiromantic), aego (aegoromantic) and queer (rainbow/LGBTQIA+), with each letter outlined in backstitch. The apl, quoi and aego patches are finished with a buttonhole-stitch embroidered edging, while the queer patch is sewn on a piece of black, untrimmed aida cloth.

You’ll need familiarity with cross stitch (full crosses) and backstitch to make unedged patches, along with a buttonhole/closed blanket stitch to make the edged patches shown above. The first instalment of this patch tutorial series demonstrates cross and blanket/buttonhole stitch, while the second covers backstitch. These patterns include quarter stitches, but they can be omitted if preferred.

For a complete guide to the stitching process for text patches, please see part one of this miniseries, where I’ve posted step-by-step instructions for stitching text. All patterns in this series can be similarly modified in terms of letter spacing, adding/subtracting quarter stitches and layout.


Continue reading “Pride Patch Tutorial: Aro Text, Part Five” →