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Rick-Rolling In Cross Stitch

Cross traditional New England crafts with Internet memes and you get Steotch.

Litchfield Hills is a small Connecticut town seeped in “traditional New England handcrafters, and dorky rap-quoting white people.” One couple in the area decided to mix the two cultures with a series of meme-inspired cross-stitch samplers.

A few of these Steotch meme samplers are NSFW

The subject matter of the samplers have already covered a lot of ground in Internet memedom. You can find pieces about:

And, of course, no meme tribute would be complete without a Rick Roll.

Steotch is the brainchild of Emily and Matt Fitzpatrick. According to the website, Emily is battling cancer, so it probably wouldn’t hurt to pay a visit to their Etsy store and pick up a gift for the Internet junkie in your life. Or perhaps get one for your grandma, and see if she notices the Rick Astley lyrics.

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By Kevin Makice

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