Yes, She Can! Free Social Media Badge and Chart

"Yes Kamala Harris Can”, hopefully Will! come November and if you want to stitch it too, or post one of the images in support on your social media scroll below.

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But yes, we are still in an era where wearing pants is considered being bold, let alone running for President of the United States! Both seem to still be a topic of debate for us women. Maybe next we can campaign for the right to have just as many pockets in our garments as men, let alone all the other stuff some of our mothers and grandmothers fought to give us rights to- equal pay as men, medical care that isn't based on research on men, a safe place for our children to go to school, cost of living where we and our children can buy a house, start a family and possibly stay home and raise our own children if they chose to. Safe streets and cities to live in. Schools and societies that think of others and believe literacy and basic math skills are the minimum for all our children whatever the color of their skin and whether they go on to college or not. A society that has compassion for the disabled and supports their families, not ridicules them. That alone- in 2024 we are discussing if making fun of or dismissing disabled citizens or neurodivergent folks let alone the military and those who have fallen should be allowed.

I say no. This has become a campaign of basic decency. Something we need to be teaching our kids from the pews of religious houses or in our homes around the kitchen table. Good place to start is Jesus’ beatitudes and yes you can be a devote person and vote for Harris. I am and I have. Voted for Obama twice.

Do I agree with everything Vice President Harris and her running mate Governor Tim Walz are campaign for? No. I’m a moderate- many years I can be both ways at the voting booth, but this year it has become one issue for me. I am a mother of daughter- as Kamala Harris has said often on her campaign trail- “We are not going back!”

This is the most political I have ever gotten in my online presence. I don’t want to be politcal. We just changed churches because the way politics blocked us coming together and worshipping. I hope come December this will all be in the past. But as I was working on this in the library over the mountain in Durango while my husband had business over there, I walked into the women’s bathroom and found this note when I hung my back back up on the backside of the door.

I hate abortion. I think it saddens God. I wish more women in an unbearable situation would give the gift of life and offer their child up for adoption. I wish the Christian community would show more compassion and support for those women and less judgement and condemnation. I have no right to have an opinion when it is a medical issue- that is between the women and her doctor, I just wish abortion was not used as a form of birth control. But I am tired of it being the forefront of women’s rights… there is more, so much more we are still fighting for.

But this note, on the back of the women’s bathroom, usually reserved for help when a women is being abused, beaten by her partner. The fact we hide notes, any notes in probably the one place men don’t look says so much, so much of where we are, how much more we need to do and why this time, I am getting political.

But as the note says- your vote is private. If you are reading this, if your partner leans to the right, but if you have compassion for the girls in your world, your daughters. Please- please help stop “that man” and I am not even going to type his name.” You don’t have to confess to anyone who you voted for this year. When our literal livelihood and future as women instead of secondary weaker citizens is not in danger, we can go back to our personal political ideologies.

We all have our reasons, but for me, I am “doing something” like Michelle Obama asked at the Democratic convention because I am the mother of daughters!

Do what you can, post your own thoughts on social media, your free to use my image of “Yes She Can” badge on your social media…

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or better yet- stitch your own “Yes She Can” cross stitch…

My "Yes She Can" is stitched on 18ct. White Aida with DMC floss including whole cross stitch, fractional stitches, French knots and stem stitch...I finished mine in a vintage biscuit cutter

used DMC 4512 Coloris Variegated Embroidery Floss in red, white and blue to stitch bullion stitched around the edge. How to on my Pinterest stitch board

Download Free PDF HERE

Download PDF HERE

Finishing in biscuit cutter is same idea as cookie cutter just easier!

I do put a round of foam core in the bottom of the biscuit cutter to lift up the stitching a bit and use “hook and loop” to attach each layer together. Do not try and stitch “sticky hook and loop” it will ruin you needle so you need two brands- one sticky and one not.

Let me know if you stitch or post “Yes She Can”! And look for other versions of my Fractional Freebies and other charts here and on my MFstudioStitch Etsy Shop~!