PieceWork 1996 Collection Download

January/February 1996

Learn about two-color knitting in Norway, then try knitting a pair of warm Norwegian gloves. Discover Oomingmak, an Alaskan cooperative that helps support Yupik families and relies on qiviut. There's a qiviut cap to knit, as well. Learn about bargello and its history, then stitch a bargello brick cover. Queen Elizabeth of Romania tatted for comfort and pleasure. Admire some of her work and tat a beaded scarf edging.

March/April 1996

Discover Victorian hairwork, designed for remembrance and mourning. Admire the blue-and-white embroidery of western China and try embroidering some Chinese blue-and-white motifs. Learn about the murder quilt, made during a 1915 murder trial.

May/June 1996

Make a sock monkey and hobby horse. Embroider flour-sack towels and learn the history of embroidered flour sacks in Belgium. Discover stumpwork and stitch a stumpwork butterfly.

July/August 1996

Explore needle-knotted miniature laces and make a needle-lace bebilla edging. Lace knitting in Iceland is a nineteenth-century tradition. Learn about it and knit an Icelandic lace shawl. Admire Tahitian quilts and appliqué a tifaifai-style table runner.

September/October 1996

This special issue explores crafts and stories from Ellis Island. Meet people who traveled through Ellis Island with their families. Try your hand at projects inspired by what people brought with them.

November/December 1996

Admire embroidered Chinese purses from the Qing era, then embroider your own Chinese purse. Colorful cathedral window quilts use an ingenious folding technique for quilt squares. Try it out with the Cathedral Window Trivet to make. You'll also learn about the rosesaum mittens of Norway complete with a pattern to knit and embroider your own pair.

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