Why don't you just go ahead and buy a wristband already?
The site is pretty plain and lo-fi at the moment, but that's at least consistent with the rest of my life. More goods (and hopefully such niceties as a shopping cart) appearing soon!
Posted by hilatron at March 18, 2004 10:22 PM | TrackBackawesome!!!
Posted by: j at March 19, 2004 09:25 AMI had an idea last night and I thought of you. The problem is this--I enjoy doing cross-stitch to relax, but most cross-stitch designs are awful. The world needs hip, or at least acceptable, cross-stitch. Knitting has recently been made fashionable, and I think cross-stitch should be next. I've seen some subversive cross-stitch for sale (I think at subversivecrossstitch.com) but I'm more looking for a middle ground between teddy bears and obscenities. Plus I'd really like a pattern, not a finished product.
Is this something you could address, or are you strictly a crochet and sewing machine type? I'd like to do it myself, but I'm not so good at coming up with designs.
I know what you mean - subversive crosstitch is funny, but what would I do? Would I put all that work into a sampler that says "Go Fuck Yourself" and then invite my mom over? Huh? I guess I am not that punk rock.
I do not know how to cross stitch at all anyway, so the point is moot. Is your problem with designs the thinking up of ideas, or the mechanics of stitches and colors and things? Because surely I and other readers here could help with the first part, if not the second.
Posted by: Hilatron at March 22, 2004 01:47 PMMore the former. I might benefit from a little help with colors, but that's a smaller problem. I have a kit I'm working on right now that's a basket of flowers, and it's OK. It's not _too_ wootesy, but it's as wootesy as I'm willing to go.
I did take a look at the subversive cross stitch after I posted here, and they've added some stuff. I kinda like the "Irony Is Not Dead" one... plus now they do have kits. So maybe I'll try that next. And you're right--as much as I'd think it was funny if someone else's house had a "Go Fuck Yourself" sampler, I wouldn't hang it in my own home.
Some of the ethnic forms of cross-stitch are less wootesy. There's a neat collection of Celtic cross-stitch, with endless-knot designs and several alphabets. Then get some graph paper, plot out something you want to say -- you know, like PLAN AHEAd, and surround it with some decorative motif you like from the book. Your library might have stuff. There's some nice Rumanian designs, too.
How about CROSS/DON'T CROSS STITICH
Or IT'S MY CROSS-STITCH TO BEAR
Or THAT OLD RUGGED CROSS-STITCH
Sorry. That's where a semester of theology school gets ya.
Posted by: Doombot at March 23, 2004 09:45 PM