Johanna at Cross Yr Stitches (our 2nd favourite cross stitch blog!) has just finished this super cool xstitch
the text is in portuguese & comes from the brazilian hardcore/trash band infect’s song cansadas the ódio. in english it would translate to something like “tired of hate & oppression, it seems like the anger is the solution”.
I think it looks great. The text goes really well with the image.
The woman symbol is a pattern I put up on the DiY page. It is a pretty old image. I’m not sure where it’s originally from, I think it came from the union movement somewhere along the way. I’d love it if someone could fill me in on that.. And I’d been wanting to stitch some text to go with it for a while, I was pondering a couple of Emma Goldman quotes. So nice to see someone else do it!
Johanna’s gonna stick it on a tote bag she made. I’ll post a pic up if she puts one online. I love the idea of making cross stitches for bags. It makes them so much more visible and useful!
I just finished a big long piece (pics soon) and it really does need to be framed and on the wall, it’s part of the joke. But I’ve just started working on a wearable project. It makes me happy when I’m stitching to think someone will be walking round with it on at some point. Although it won’t be me ’cause it’s too small. Oh well, maybe next time.
