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Trinity in Time: A Crochet Cowl with Vintage Roots

A trinity stitch pattern from the late 1800s finds new life in this modern-day cowl design.

Mark Twain’s Invention: The Surprising Origin of the Modern Bra Strap

Discover Mark Twain's contributions not only to the literary world, but also to fashion history.

Chain-Pieced: Quilts Made by Enslaved Women in Nineteenth-Century America

From cotton fields to sewing rooms, learn how enslaved women contributed significantly to the development of early American quilts.

Mapping America, One Stitch at a Time

In the first decades after independence, American girls learned the contours of their country by stitching them. At boarding schools, girls transformed printed maps into vivid embroidered visions of a young and still-forming nation.

Meet a Norwegian Knitting Historian and Courageous Wartime Resister

Annichen Sibbern Bøhn: traveled Norway to record endangered knitting patterns—and later risked her life in the resistance. Discover her story and download a free sock pattern inspired by her work.

Stitched Stories of Unity and Diversity: The Japanese American Quilt Project

The Japanese American Quilt Project brings together generations of voices, identity, and resilience. Learn the story of a community’s shared past through fabric and thread.

The Coziest Competition: Knitters Cast on for the Winter Games

As athletes sneak in a few calming rows between events in Milan, Italy, fans at home are knitting right along with them turning the Winter Games into a shared stitch by stitch ritual.

Celebrate Chinese New Year!

Check out some of our favorite offerings of Chinese needlework to celebrate the Year of the Horse.

America’s Tapestry: An Embroidered Revolution

Blending historical research with masterful needlework, the America’s Tapestry project translates Revolutionary-era stories into vivid embroidered panels.

The Scientist Who Crocheted: George Washington Carver’s Unexpected Legacy

Discover George Washington Carver’s quiet lifelong passion for crochet and fancywork and download free crochet patterns for his swatches.