We Survived the First Impact! - Flosstube #2

Stitching Shown:
Gardener’s Paradise - Sandy Orton
Stitcher’s (Weaver’s) Studio - Sandy Orton
Franzi 1817 - Reflet de Soie
Everflowering Garden (Parent’s Anniversary Sampler) - Owl Forest Embroidery
CRS 1713 Pt.1/Pt.2 - Jan Hicks Creates!
Peroy - Stacey Nash Animal Crackers

Books Mentioned:
The Subversive Stitch - Rozsika Parker
Queering the Subversive Stitch - Joseph McBrinn
Zeroes and Ones - Sadie Plant

Embroidery Shown:
Betsy Bucklin - 1781
Not Forgotten Farms - this was a free pattern I think, its now been taken down
Modern Folk Embroidery - Move Forward in Love
George Washington Mourning Sampler
Mary Emiston - 1803

I don’t agree with the political statements in all these embroidered works, merely I’m showing them to prove that there can be and always were craftspeople making political cross stitch and embroidery (no matter what the political bent). Particularly I don’t want anyone to come out of this video thinking that everything that is political is ethically correct. Also  cross stitch is sometimes on the wrong side of history!

Thanks for watching!