Cross Stitch

I have kept these 2 pictures because they were given to me by my grandmothers dear friend Gwyneth when I was a young girl. She made them for me. At the time I dont remember feeling particularly excited by them but more than that I felt I should be grateful. As the years went by I forgot about them.. then I rediscovered them at my mum’s house a while after my grandmother passed… I held on to them then because they were a connection to my ‘Granny’ but over tecent years Ive felt more and more angst about them as I realised I never felt comfortable with the workds that were on the picture, or the picture, the binary representations and expectations of gender, roles and behaviours. It has reminded me of holding on to things that are not me.