Bless This Mother-effing Home is a book of sweet stitches for snarky bitches. I have seen some similar crafts online and always get a good laugh out of them so when I saw there was a whole book of them, created by someone else named Katie, I had to check it out. Cross-stitch is a craft I have done before with some success, provided that it is printed and not counted. Katie has been selling her crafts on her etsy page but after getting some publicity on the show GIRLS things have taken off for her. The cross stitches in the book are all cutesy and adorable, as one would expect, but the text on them are a bit unexpected and anyone with a sense of humor would surely find one or five that they feel the need to have in their home. My favorites are probably the ones based on rap lyrics like "mo money mo problems" and "y'all gonna make me lose my mind up in here, up in here". If you don't crack a smile at least once when reading through this book you may need to consult a doctor.

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review, I was not otherwise compensated.

Moderately entertaining. Many of the quotes are lifted from entertainment and pop culture, and it feels repetitive. Katie Kutthroat's Etsy shop is a hit, and what she's done is pretty hilarious, but it doesn't translate well into book form.

Great, snarky patterns! I'm so glad someone made this book!

Not funny, not clever. Doesn't hold a candle to Subversive Cross Stitch.

Bless this Mother Effing Home Review



Most people think of grandmas house when asked about cross-stitching. Katie Kutthoat's cross-stitch designs are perfectly inappropriate and hilarious. Bless this Mother-Effing Home: Sweet Stitches for Snarky Bitches are not your grandmas patterns and not for anyone without a sense of humor. This book showcases some of the popular items seen in Katie's Etsy shop available for purchase. The book description describes as having patterns. While they might have been simple self explanatory patterns for a seasoned cross-stitcher, for a non crafter like myself there was no instructions or supply lists on how to use said patterns. However, not all is lost!! The pages are purposely not printed double sided and have perforated tear off pages so each little curse word cross-stitch sampler print could be framed and displayed proudly. This book is perfect for sassy crafters and non crafters alike.

I received this ebook from Sourcebooks in exchange for an honest review

I will preface my review by saying I do cross stitch and I am a fan and customer of Subversive Cross-Stitch. I am not impressed with this book. The patterns are almost exclusively text. Text generators are available online for free. The phrases the author presents are not unique, clever, or cute. These are things anybody could come up with and then enter into a cross-stitch text pattern generator. Secondly, they're not really patterns. I see that the final edition will feature perforated pages but that isn't really what crafters need. We need the stitches plotted on a graph. Thirdly, the phrases do not "walk the thin line between adorable and appalling". They are not "badass" or edgy. They are cultural appropriations of older rap lyrics and African American memes mixed with some network TV catchphrases.

I am a cross-stitch newbie who is looking forward to diving into snarky patterns like those from Katie Kutthroat. Many of her designs are a bit too inappropriate for my tastes, but others are just right. Combining traditional presentation with modern and humorous details is so ironically funny and I can't wait to make some of these for myself and for gifts. I also like that you can tear out and share or display the pages. I've seen plenty other patterns like the ones in this book on Etsy and Pinterest, but it sounds like Katie is one of the founding mothers of sarcastic embroidery, so I give props to her!