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From Spring Blooms to Autumn Leaves: A Maker’s Year in Mini Projects

Celebrate the rhythm of the year with a new eBook full of seven small, meaningful projects designed to bring creativity, comfort, and a touch of seasonal magic to your making.

The Surviving Threads of Orvieto's Handmade Lace and the Art They Preserve

Discover the crochet lace of Orvieto, Italy, a fragile inheritance of skill, memory, and place, preserved against the pull of time.

Mittens of Memory: Beauty and Resilience in Wartime America

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.

Lace Lives On! Bobbin Lace in Ipswich Past and Present

Honoring the women who built the historic lace industry in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and connecting today’s makers with this nearly lost craft.

The Hidden History of Pockets in Women’s Fashion

Pockets—practical, convenient, and sometimes, so mysterious. Find them hidden inside or boldly stitched to the front of a garment.

Honoring America’s Needlework Legacy: Inside Our Spring 2026 Issue

Our Spring 2026 issue commemorates 250 years of needlework in America, tracing the stitches, stories, and traditions that have shaped the nation.

Not Just Eye “Candy” Keepsake Box Charts

All the companion charts to cross-stitch the Whitman’s Sampler-inspired keepsake box by Elisabeth Jenkins Baty.

DMC Color Substitutions for An Abigail Adams Pin Pillow

Alternate thread options and colors for Sandie Cormaci-Boles’ silk embroidered pin pillow.

Stitching Stories: The Cultural Legacy of Hmong Story Cloths

How an estate sale purchase revealed a story sewn across continents.

Long Thread Podcast: Elena Kanagy-Loux, Lacemaker & Historian (classic)

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.