Celebrate the rhythm of the year with seven small, meaningful projects designed to bring creativity, comfort, and a touch of seasonal magic to your making.
Discover the crochet lace of Orvieto, Italy, a fragile inheritance of skill, memory, and place, preserved against the pull of time.
A pair of hand-embroidered mittens from a World War II relocation camp serve as a testament to resilience and the sustaining power of craft. And you can make them, too.
Honoring the women who built the historic lace industry in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and connecting today’s makers with this nearly lost craft.
Celebrate the rhythm of the year with seven small, meaningful projects designed to bring creativity, comfort, and a touch of seasonal magic to your making.
Dress up your holidays with delicate charm: use these free tatting patterns to create a tree full of ornaments or a cheerful, color-filled window display.
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Capture the vibrant colors of fall leaves with instructions for making a miniature punch needle sachet.
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Trade your sewing machine for knitting needles in this cheerful subscriber-exclusive pattern.
Pockets—practical, convenient, and sometimes, so mysterious. Find them hidden inside or boldly stitched to the front of a garment.
Our Spring 2026 issue commemorates 250 years of needlework in America, tracing the stitches, stories, and traditions that have shaped the nation.
All the companion charts to cross-stitch the Whitman’s Sampler-inspired keepsake box by Elisabeth Jenkins Baty.
Alternate thread options and colors for Sandie Cormaci-Boles’ silk embroidered pin pillow.
How an estate sale purchase revealed a story sewn across continents.
Season 13, Episode 9: Ethereal, durable, ornamental, powerful—what does lace mean to you? Through academic study and the work of her hands, Elena Kanagy-Loux teaches that lace is all of these things and more.
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Even in the White House, needle and thread offered moments of creativity and comfort for three extraordinary women.
Discover which 2025 web articles featuring fun and fascinating details of needlework history rose to the top as our readers’ favorites.
Join us as we pay tribute to one of the needlework community’s guiding lights.
Mending is an act of care, memory, and resistance in a world built on disposability. Harikleia Sirmans reflects on growing up in a Greek village where clothes were repaired, remade, and cherished.
