PieceWork’s 11th Historical Knitting issue features three tantalizing pairs of mittens, and the Lithuania-Inspired Floral and Entrelac Mittens have charmed their way to the top of my project list.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, a new style of art emerged in Scotland’s largest and most bustling city, Glasgow. Learn about the artists who helped establish this movement, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald.
A polushawl (polushalok in Russian) is a smaller version of a traditional Orenburg warm shawl.
Crack open any volume of Weldon’s Practical Needlework, and you’ll be transported in time to the Victorian era.
In the November/December 2013 issue of PieceWork, contributor Betsy Butler shares a bit about Mrs. McKinley’s passion for crochet in her article, “First Lady Ida Saxton McKinley and Her Crocheted Slippers.”
Weldon’s Practical Needlework houses a wealth of information on Victorian tatting.The following are instructions for how to tat a “Scalloped Edging.”
In the Fall 2018 issue of PieceWork, Carol Huebscher Rhoades offered up some fantastic tips for knitting at a fine gauge with her darling pair of baby socks based on a Victorian-era pattern from Weldon’s Practical Needlework.
This pattern for spiral-ribbed socks, from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 30, dates from 1914.
Weldon’s Practical Needlework houses a wealth of information on Victorian tatting. Here’s our 22nd installment in this series from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 4.
