# Subversive Cross Stitch **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482 "2008-01-06T06:27:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/21 "2008-01-06T19:19:31Z")
[QUOTE=Maui\_Lion] “I don’t know what your problem is, but I’m sure it’s hard to pronounce.” [/QUOTE] Thanks for my first laugh of the day! ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/22 "2008-01-06T19:35:17Z")
“Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/23 "2008-01-06T20:14:03Z")
Would this work with just plain ol’ embroidery? I don’t do much crosstitch. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/24 "2008-01-06T20:24:22Z")
I think there’s a book by this title, I’m just too lazy to confirm it. “Put Your Big Girl Panties On and Deal with It” ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/25 "2008-01-06T20:54:19Z")
One of my favorite T-shirts I used to wear when I was younger had a simple black & white graphic of a heart beat monitor. You know on TV how it goes "beep, beep, beep, then flat lines, then goes back to beep, beep, beep? Like that. The caption was, “for a second there, you bored me to death.” ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/26 "2008-01-06T20:56:58Z")
[QUOTE=LucyInDisguise] If I may offer my version … be bankrupt and homeless. [no, not you, **picunurse** … 😃] Lucy [/QUOTE] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/27 "2008-01-06T22:11:38Z")
As a wedding gift, a friend gave me an apron–one of the full-length jobbies that hangs around the neck, ties at the waist and has lots of pockets–with the nicely embroidered message: FUCK HOUSEWORK. Along with the usual leaves & flowers… I think we hid it when the kids got to the point where they could read. I don’t know where it is now but I really appreciated the sentiment. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/28 "2008-01-06T22:19:05Z")
> [@](#): > > I Do, but, Not With You." This is awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/29 "2008-01-06T22:19:34Z")
Someone gave me a little decorative plate that says, “It’s my house and I’ll do what I damn please.” I love that. When I was married I kept trying to teach my husband, “Happy wife, happy life.” ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/30 "2008-01-06T22:22:54Z")
I think I am going to have to learn cross stitch now. I’d love a simple “Eat shit and bark at the moon!” ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/31 "2008-01-07T02:50:21Z")
Thanks for the suggestions! “God Hates You” and “Bite Me” are decidedly on the list of projects. If I get time, “Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.” **Sturmhauke** gets bonus points for the graphic idea And I totally want to steal **Hilarity N. Suze’s** apron. **Guinastasia** , sure this would work with embroidery. Though cross stitch has the advantage of being very mathematical, which is good for those of us who need the structure. new idea: “cockass” for the Tenacious D fan in everyone’s life. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/32 "2008-01-07T02:57:52Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] I always wanted to do a quote from Sarte: Hell is other people. [/QUOTE] And underneath, in smaller print: You, for instance. And from my husband–“When words can’t express your feelings, a machete usually can.” ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/33 "2008-01-07T07:20:28Z")
I think I like you people - not that I can do it. Any chance for some pics? ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/34 "2008-01-07T12:48:23Z")
_I’d love to help you out_ … _which way did you come in?_ or \*I can only help one person each day … You are too late for today, and tomorrow is not looking good, either. \* Si ---
**Author:** ![Labelless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@Labelless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labelless)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/35 "2008-01-07T13:15:49Z")
I love Subversive Cross Stitch, and have done several in her book as well. I did the Babies Suck, and while my cousin found it hilarious, his wife wasn’t so amused. He still hung it up, and later told me at around four in the morning, he would look up at it and smile, even with a screaming hungry baby in his arms. Love it! I did the Homo Sweet Homo for another friend who had just moved into his apartment. I did a border of the rainbow for that one. His friends ask about it all the time. The Bite Me is above my computer as I type this. My grandpa thought it was funny, my grandma didn’t. I’m currently working on the Tattoo one’s with Mother in them for my mom and MIL for Mother’s day, and have a few other lined up. Go to Julie’s website for more inspiration: [http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/info.htm](http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/info.htm) Get her newsletter, it’s got great info! Good luck to you! **Guin** it would totally work for embroidery as well. Have you ever looked at Jenny of Sublime Stitching? > **[SUBLIME STITCHING Contemporary Embroidery Design since 2001](https://sublimestitching.com/)** > > Contemporary modern embroidery patterns, kits and unique supplies exclusively from Sublime Stitching by Jenny Hart! Her transfers rock my socks! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/36 "2008-01-07T13:27:48Z")
[QUOTE=Pullet] 😕 I get the play on “never look a gift horse in the mouth,” but the phrase itself is confusing me. I’ve discovered the secret is not to make them into pillows, but to frame them and put them on the wall. The dollar shop sells these awesomely tacky frames! Squee! [/QUOTE] I think it was just intended as a play on the phrase. Even if it wasn’t, it’s pretty good advice. Obviously, whore barbecue is something that should be done outside, on concrete patio and surrounded with tiki torches and drinks with little umbrellas in them. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/37 "2008-01-07T14:01:59Z")
“You’re still here - _why?_” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/38 "2008-01-07T14:09:21Z")
I made my own “Eat Shit and Die” in the same vein–it had little skulls and crossbones and piles of poo with little flies buzzing around them. It was good times. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/39 "2008-01-07T14:36:34Z")
[QUOTE=Weaver of Nightmares] “If I Want Your Opinion I’ll Give It To You.” [/QUOTE] I’m personally a fan of “If I want your opinion, I’ll read your entrails.” ---
**Author:** ![Weaver\_of\_Nightmares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@Weaver\_of\_Nightmares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weaver_of_Nightmares)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482/40 "2008-01-07T15:01:00Z")
[QUOTE=Labelless] Go to Julie’s website for more inspiration: [http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/info.htm](http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/info.htm) [/QUOTE] I think I’m in love. That’s some nice stuff on that site. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subversive-cross-stitch/432482.md?page=3)