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Introducing Juliet of Very Cross Stitching -- I saw her work on Instagram and had to share it with you. Come back to the link at the end of this article to see as we add more of her work on our site! ----------- Hello there! My name is Juliet and I am the girl behind Very Cross Stitching! I live in the North-West of the UK, famous for the Industrial Revolution and the Suffragette movement amongst other things. Northerners are down to earth folk who don’t take themselves too seriously and I think this is reflected in some of my...

Oh man, I am such a fan of Jenny Lawson aka The Bloggess. Her blog is just the most wonderful, and her books are even better! I got to read an advance copy of her new book, Broken (in the best possible way), and I absolutely relished it. I laughed so hard my face hurt. Which is saying a lot, not many books really captivate me, but this one is a pretty dang perfect match. If you like Subversive Cross Stitch humor, you'll definitely like Jenny's writing! Not only did Jenny author a great book, she also stitched FIVE patterns...

What do we want? CHANGE! How do we get it? VOTE! (that's one way, anyway) Vote EVERY election because change starts locally and becomes global. Two versions of this pattern are available as FREE PDFs, kits and kit/frame combos. UPDATE: Two new free versions of this pattern with ADDED F-BOMB for EMPHASIS! This is a take on an old political slogan in case you don't recognize the vague reference, which explains my word choice. In this global community, what we do in the US makes a difference in the world (just as what other countries do influences us). Just look...

This may not look like much, but check out what it does when placed on a turntable: This pattern is meant to be stitched, put on a piece of cardboard with a hole punched in the middle. Then, you just pop it on your turntable and GO! What you've got right there is one-a' them thar optical illusion snakes. Follow me into the depths of madness, will you? ;p I've had this project shelved many times because I actually stitched it so it went in the wrong direction (IMAGINE my disappointment!). Luckily, I've corrected the pattern for you and it's...

UPDATE 2020: We no longer have this pattern on our site, but you can find it HERE! I saw these on Instagram and thought it was SO CLEVER! So I worked with the creator to bring it to you as a PDF that includes all 16 of these rockin' cocks! Here's Lauren's story of how these came to be the hit of a hen party (bachelorette party), direct from Cornwall!: The original series was made as a surprise for my sister Helen's hen party which I was organising with my other sister, Hope. The details of the hen party were...