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Valentine's is in the air, and I'm stitching all kinds of samples of things you can make for your beloved. First up, this little ditty. More to come!

New study about curse words shows "most uses of swear words are not done out of anger, but to produce positive effects, mainly humor." Yes!! Plus, "swearing can lower physical pain. It has a cathartic effect that enables us to react and live through pain better." I'm telling you!! Fuck Cancer!! Another study has found that people who swear tend to have larger vocabularies: "The ability to generate taboo language is not an index of overall language poverty," wrote the researchers behind a new study published in the journal Language Sciences. "A voluminous taboo lexicon may better be considered an...

The perfect gift to introduce someone to stitching or just to Subversive stitching. Included in this $25 gift set are $36 worth of goodies!: - Official Subversive Cross Stitch supplies bag (with patch!) 10" x 19" - Five pieces of our special die-cut material (Charles Craft 14-count) - Pack of DMC embroidery floss (8 skeins) in the Subversive palette - One pack of my favorite needles (John James size 24) - One plastic 5" hoop by Susan Bates - Subversive needle-holdin' magnet Suggested upgrades - throw in one or all of these to really wow them: --- The Subversive Cross...

Time to get busy! All of these kits are quick to stitch and guarantee a surprised expression when unwrapped--and hopefully a laugh. Available as both Basic and Deluxe Kits until the end of the year, and you can add a frame to your order. Get to it!

I thought I'd share some photos of the process I used to create the Shiner billboard (see previous post). It's always tricky to take a Photoshopped comp of artwork created by a non-stitcher graphic artist and find a way to explain what it would take to turn their comp into cross stitch, a medium that is limited by little squares. I actually enjoy this part of the process since I've had so much practice. This project was a very quick turnaround and, while I'm always up for a challenge, I LITERALLY stitched this in NINE straight days, working 8-10 hours...