Feminist Stitches by Haley Pierson-Cox

Feminist Stitches

by Haley Pierson-Cox

Feminist Stitches offers twelve empowering feminist-themed cross-stitch patterns that celebrate strong women.

Decorate your home with framed pieces or use the patterns to personalize items like denim jackets and backpacks.

The kit includes twelve fun and original patterns featuring various designs and quotes that have been popularized by the feminist movement, plus the supplies needed to make two finished projects. The book offers step-by-step instructions with full-color photographs of the finished projects.

Cross-stitch patterns include:

  • The Centennial Suffragette Sign
  • We Can Do It
  • Pussy Power
  • Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History 
  • Girl Just Want to Have Fundamental Human Rights
  • R.I.P. Gender Roles 
  • Don't Tell Me to Smile
  • Not Your Babe 
  • The Future is Female
  • Smash the Patriarchy 
  • I Dissent 
  • Resist

Reviewed by annieb123 on

4 of 5 stars

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Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Feminist Stitches Cross Stitch Kit with 12 Fierce Designs is a bundled kit + instruction book with 12 feminist friendly embroidery projects. Released 21st April by Quarto on their becker&mayer! imprint, it's 64 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats. I received the electronic galley proof of the book without any kit materials, so I can't review those, but the included designs are easily usable on most fabrics with the reader's choice of floss. I'm also not sure how the fabric and floss (and needle) is bundled with the electronic version of the book.

The book has a nice layout with clear and easy to follow basic stitching diagrams. The introductory chapters include a basic tools and techniques section with photo illustrations of needles, fabric, cutting tools, hoops, and some simple finishing techniques. Each of the projects include a color key with DMC floss numbers and color names.

The projects themselves are simple counted thread (cross stitch). They're cheerful and colorful, on point and fun. The designs vary slightly in size, but all of them fit into an 80x80 grid. I adore the RBG silhouette collar which spells RESIST.

This would make a superlative gift for a cross stitch interested young person (or for oneself).
Four stars. Several of these are very nice quick projects.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

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