no matter how often you check the calendar, it’s STILL 22 days away from the release of mockingjay, and you’ve read hunger games and catching fire a zillion times already. and not that you don’t want to read them a zillion-and-one-times, because who doesn’t? but you’ve noticed lately that each reading doesn’t soothe you anymore — it just ratchets up your hardcore case of TEABS.
remember this monstrosity? (hang with me, here. i’m getting to the point, not just inflicting rpatz’s ersatz visage on you for no reason [um, and not just because i wanted to use the phrase "rpatz's ersatz visage." really.) now YOU TOO can turn to the art form that's calmed legions of grannies and you don't have to rub salt into the mockingjay-shaped wound on yr heart by staring at rpatz's face while you do it, unless you just really want to.
that's right. you can cross-stitch your very own mockingjay, thanks to our little pattern (and poshdeluxe, who came up with the idea after being horrified by the twicrafts out there). it's small and will only take you a couple of episodes of law and order: svu to finish (is there any way to cast ice-t in the hunger games movie?). put it on a bookmark like i did, or make a bandage for yr TEABS wound. you can even decorate a lacy hankie for all the tears you'll be shedding when you finish catching fire and everyone's dead and you realize there will never be another book and it's all over, like the life of a tribute named sweetless q. crylily at the cornucopia.
click here (or on the picture) to download, and stay tuned for more hunger-games-inspired crafty home ec lessons to keep you busy during these sleepless nights of anticipation.
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so, meghan, let me get this straight.
you: just had a baby but found time to create a masterpiece of hunger game craftyness.
me: responsible for no one besides myself yet haven’t even gone to the grocery store to buy FOOD. which i need. TO LIVE.
in other words, YOU ARE AMAZING.
haha, i used it as an excuse to watch lots of tv instead of do laundry or vacuum while the baby napped. and also, i had to go to the grocery store last week before i could eat lunch because there was nothing in my fridge but some moldy broccoli and a jar of mustard. and i don’t even think district 12ers are desperate enough to eat that (ok, maybe they are, but i wasn’t).
grocery shopping is the HARDEST TASK ON EARTH. it’s even harder than going to the bank and THE BANK IS NEVER OPEN EXCEPT FOR WHEN I’M AT WORK.
I KNOW. Once I baked my own bread because I needed some and it was easier than goin to the store to buy some. I do realize that’s a really effed-up kind of lazy.
Maybe. MAYBE. BUT. If you BAKE the bread you don’t have to put on pants. See what you did there?!
exactly. you UNDERSTAND.
HOW DOES IT WORK? don’t understand… Which is silly because I used to have one of those in the shape of a panda. And possibl oneof a large dog, but i never finished it, because I suddenly realised how less-than-awesome they were.
This one puts the “hot” in “cross-stitch” (if you re-arrange some letters, obv). lol. Also, you have no idea how long that took me to come up with. Seriously, I just startedat the word for like five minutes going “there’s got to be SOMETHING… is this even *worth* it??”
Probably not. But I am SO making this. It’s actually insane. I will hang it on my wall. With pride.
Whaaaaaaat?! This is AWWWWESSSOME! Please make a ton of bookmarks of these and sells them on etsy so I can buy one KTHX.
yeah, true! SOME OF US don’t know how to be crafty! I can’t even dress myself! meghan, will you adopt me and knit me things? Please?
So cool. But considering my one cross-stitch is a failure that will never be spoken of again, I’ll let other people make the super-cool bookmarks.
I am amazed at your skills and your willingness to share them with us! I loved to cross-stitch when I was a kid. Is it like riding a bike?
you guys could totally do this — it’s pretty simple. it’s totally like bike riding, jenny! here are a billion tutorials: http://crossstitch.about.com/od/learntocrossstitch/Learn_How_to_Cross_Stitch_Cross_Stitch_Tutorials_and_Information.htm
i just had an awful thought… what if they make the hunger games into movies and cast taylor lautner as gale????? they couldn’t… but what if?!
They couldn’t do that: there aren’t enough opportunities for Gale to take his shirt off.
When I read that comment, loled in the middle of a meeting and my boss looked at me kinda funny.
I have to find time to make this. I have not touched a cross stitch needle since sweet sixteen, but I am game. Love the bookmark.
I have to admit when I hear “cross-stitching” I think of my grandma, but you are officially my new best friends because I am so obsessed with the Hunger Games it’s not even funny. You are seriously the most talented person ever. I have never cross-stitched. Quilted sme, knitted some, I sew a lot, but never cross-stitch. For your sake, I am going to have to.