Needlecraft pedantry: That's cross stitch, not embroidery.

so fixed. ;)

"Fem Uh Nist" is cracking me up.

Sounds like it should be a blog devoted to describing the blindingly obvious to stupid people.

August 15th: "Why wimmen shoulds get paid for theys werk.

Technically, cross stitch is a type of embroidery. Maybe you're both right.:)

Yay! I love seeing other women who use the traditional "womanly" arts to express their feminism. The history of samplers is a part of the history of women. They were an integral part of a girl's education for a very long time, in a way that very few people realize.
I've been meaning to post these on Flickr . . . it's on my to-do list, but I just moved, so it was moved down on the list to somewhere below "figure out where bed sheets got put". In the meantime, here is the link to my own feminist needlework on google's photo sharing site.

http://picasaweb.google.com/anna.faherty/Artwork

oh, ps. - the feminist pieces are at the end, since they're more recent, so you'll have to scroll down. (I just looked at the page and thought "Gee, none of what you can see here is particularly feminist." So I thought I'd be specific. Or possibly just OCD. Whatever.)

oh, ps. - the feminist pieces are at the end, since they're more recent, so you have to scroll down. (I just looked at my photo page again and realized "Gee, none of what you can see when you open the page is particularly feminist." So I thought I'd be specific. Or possibly just OCD.)

"'Fem Uh Nist' is cracking me up.

"Sounds like it should be a blog devoted to describing the blindingly obvious to stupid people."

Or like

http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30780

but on feminism instead of urban planning? :)

"August 15th: 'Why wimmen shoulds get paid for theys werk.'"

Now stick it on a pic at
http://wigflip.com/roflbot/

It is interesting, why when I understand, that anything useful any more I will not make, and to sleep it would be desirable, and to sleep I do not go.