Friday, October 03, 2003

Chop Chop Chop

I'm checking out new cross-stitch patterns on the Hoffmandis website. Someone has designed a pattern called "Lizzie Borden". Yes indeed, folks. You too can create this heartfelt keepsake to hang in your home. The design is child-like in its simplicity, and features the famous poem in case you've forgotten it

Lizzie Borden took an axe
gave her mother forty whacks
when she saw what she had done
gave her father forty-one.

I'm not sure which element of this design I like the most. The lightning bolts, the red blobs of blood, or the dead people who appear to be lying down as if they were looking at clouds. The whole thing looks like it was drawn by a third-grader. I can see it now..."Grandma! I made this just for you!"

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