With SUBVERSIVE CROSS STITCH: 50 F8CKING CLEVER DESIGNS FOR YOUR SASSY SIDE "rude cross stitch comes to your very own fingertips."- Paste Magazine "Perfect for cool parents and hipsters alike."- The Advocate, online "By taking this old-fashioned technique, and even some old-fashioned designs, but adding in updated sayings, her designs balance precariously on that line between awful and awesome."- BUST, online "Getting your stitchy snark on is so easy, you ll wonder why you haven t been doing it for years!"- MAKE Magazine "What s appealing about the patterns featured is thatthey have a real sense of humour and irony about them."- Textile Artist "The glossy pages feature photos of the finished products on the left-hand side with patterns on the right, if you re so inclined to put needle to canvas yourself. Otherwise, the 50 different sayings do quite well as a mini coffeetable book, or a nice gift for the friend who s not afraid to combine the whimsical with a straight shot of sass."- Red Eye Chicago "Julie has a new book coming out TODAY and it s even better than her first!"- Tanis Knits As Seen On: Yahoo! DIY, the Yahoo! main page, The Colbert Report, and Stella Magazine"

In 2003, Julie Jackson created Subversive Cross Stitch, a bedrock of the modern craft movement that pairs old-fashioned samplers with snarky sentiments. Along with this, her second book, kits, cards, and other gift items bearing Subversive designs can be found online and in retail stores around the world. Kits, supplies, advice, and hundreds of PDF patterns can be found on her site, subversivecrossstitch.com. Julie currently lives in Dallas with her husband and a menagerie of outstanding honor roll pets.