I'm a stitcher. I belong to the Embroidery Guild, and I've viewed beautiful and very ornate cross stitch samplers. I think I must be a little off base. I saw the Subversive cross stitch link off of Bust magazine, and clicked on it. I knew I had found my calling. Then I discovered the link to the book. I promptly ordered it.
What an amazing cross stitch book. Probably one of the best book of charts I own. Certainly they make the most sense. When you've worked all day and been slave-driven, do you really want to work on something ornate and complicated, at home, by a very promiment French cross stitch designer, or do you just want to go home and scream some of the sentiments in the book, while...playing the Clash? Truely, you CAN play the remastered Clash CD's, and make a cross stitch design from this book, at the same time. You can't do that very well, with ornate samplers, no matter how small. They do not have the same feeling of honesty, as these charts.
While looking through the book, I laughed and laughed and laughed. Yes, these charts are for real. Yes, you are allowed to stitch that word. Go ahead, and stitch that word, too. Liberate your thread and needle! Liberate your 28 count linen, and your 14 count aida cloth. Make your DMC scream. Cause if you have this book, you can display how you really feel!
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I'm A 39 Year Old Male Cross Stitch Newbie Who Loves This Book
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2011
This is awesome. I recently learned to cross stitch because - basically - my wife commented upon a design that my brother-in-law had stitched for a birthday card that "David could never do this kind of thing." To use Ms. Jackson's own words: "Bitch, please." I got a quirky pattern from another designer ("Crafty Chicks Are Hot" - she is, on both counts) and, with a tutorial from my sister, I set about doing it as a challenge for my wife's birthday. I thought it would take me a month and I'd hate it, but I found it an incredibly relaxing pastime and I finished it in a little over a week, stitching only when my wife had gone to bed. Then I found this book and it was basically game over - I'm a stitching freak. I'm on my fifth pattern from it, and am getting pretty proficient. I even bought spindles and an organizer for my floss. Whodathunkit?
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2011
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I'm A 39 Year Old Male Cross Stitch Newbie Who Loves This Book
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2011
This is awesome. I recently learned to cross stitch because - basically - my wife commented upon a design that my brother-in-law had stitched for a birthday card that "David could never do this kind of thing." To use Ms. Jackson's own words: "Bitch, please." I got a quirky pattern from another designer ("Crafty Chicks Are Hot" - she is, on both counts) and, with a tutorial from my sister, I set about doing it as a challenge for my wife's birthday. I thought it would take me a month and I'd hate it, but I found it an incredibly relaxing pastime and I finished it in a little over a week, stitching only when my wife had gone to bed. Then I found this book and it was basically game over - I'm a stitching freak. I'm on my fifth pattern from it, and am getting pretty proficient. I even bought spindles and an organizer for my floss. Whodathunkit?
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2011
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