Historically, cross-stitch bears a relational function. The feminine virtues, domestic responsibilities, and spousal devotion that they describe attracted potential suitors, ensuring successful 'love' matches. Subtracting text from found cross-stitches -- a process akin to erasure poetry -- transforms lengthy, pre-determined verse into short instances of speech. Sweet nothings, passionate ramblings, and lovelorn pleas impose a contemporary love affair upon the traditional marital practices in which cross-stitch is ground; recontextualizing a dismissed form of feminine expression and asserting the validity of girlish handicraft.