PieceWork Fall 2024

Breathe new life into old textiles and benefit from the wisdom of thrifty makers and menders throughout history. Find out about the practical tools and time-honored ways that stitchers have used to revive worn fabrics: this issue of PieceWork magazine includes heritage methods such as Victorian restyling and Japanese sashiko, and newer approaches such as upcycled knitting swatches, and refashioned feed sacks.

• Knit home décor art from scrap yarn with Kaffe Fassett’s Kaleidoscope Diamond Bench Cushion
• Darn a beloved garment using Angela K. Schneider’s tips for a small mending loom
• Bring the beauty of the season indoors with Deanna Hall West's silk-ribbon fuchsias to embroider
• Sew Dawn Cook Ronningen’s Soldiers’ Comfort mending roll to keep your supplies close at hand
• Meet Barbara G. Walker who reimagined antique knitting patterns for modern knitters
• Knit Meg Swansen’s Simple Mittens with a bonus patch
• Learn about fashion, fiber, and sustainability with Elettra Wiedmann and Isabella Rosellini

Celebrate the textiles of the past by learning techniques to maintain and transform yesterday’s crafts into tomorrow’s heirlooms.

CONTENTS

• Schoolgirl Sewing: Mending Books and Garment-Construction Samplers by Alden O’Brien

• Sashiko and Boro: Utility and Beauty by Karen Elting Brock

• Soldiers’ Comfort: A Mending Roll to Handsew by Dawn Cook Ronningen

• Not-So-Cold Feet: 300 Years of Darning Traditions by Sara Rivers Cofield

• Kaleidoscope Diamond Bench Cushion by Kaffe Fassett

• Respect and Repurpose: From Film to Fashion, Farm to Fleece by Pat Olski

• Repairing and Preserving Knitwear the EZ Way by Meg Swansen

• Simple Mittens by Meg Swansen

• Betsy Ross: Upholsterer, Flag Maker, and Patriot by Susan Holloway Scott

• Fuchsias: A Silk-Ribbon Bouquet Based on a Victorian Pelerine, Project IV by Deanna Hall West

• Fashion and Refashion: Victorian Dressmaking Practices by Karin J. Bohleke

• Repurposed Feed Sacks: The Romance and the Reality by Sarah Walcott

• Lockdown Art Blankets from Upcycled Swatches by Kaffe Fassett

• My Knitting Life A Facet of a Life in Full by Barbara G. Walker

• Revisited: Visible Mending with a Darning Loom by Angela K. Schneider