Needlework collectively refers to craft disciplines that utilize needles to create finished projects. Needlework encompasses sewing, knitting and cross stitch. In addition, needlework includes ...

In 2012, when your young daughter brings home her school artwork, it will most probably find pride of place on the refrigerator behind a magnet commemorating your trip to Disney World. Eventually it ...

Continuing a more than 200-year tradition, the Busy Workers Society of Central Moravian Church has come up with a fitting way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Old Chapel. A needlework kit of ...

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW followed up with Folk Art appraiser Allan Katz in to learn the astounding story of what happened to the Maria Koogle Schoolgirl Needlework, ca. 1817 since it appeared on ROADSHOW in ...

Growing up, there’s a stereotypical scene that I’ve come across in multiple television shows and books: A grandmother sitting on a rocking chair, whiling away her time knitting yet another sweater for ...

Every third Monday of the month, a drop-in needlework circle meets at Evanston Public Library. Sally Barnum, the organizer of the circle, hopes more people will join this community. Barnum created the ...

JAMES CITY — Stitching enthusiasts in the Williamsburg area have a replacement store in the stitching world with opening of Liberty Hill Needleworks on Longhill Road. For more than 40 years, Lydia ...

A few centuries ago, kids in classrooms did needlework samplers. They’d stitch their ways through linen stretched tight in wooden hoops as part of this rather slow & demanding hobby. It also taught ...

With her first book on stitchery, needlework instructor Erica Wilson revived a craft and helped invent a publishing category. Her 1962 hardcover book, “Crewel Embroidery,” both popularized the pursuit ...