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Fireworks Socks: Inspired by Traditional Knitting and Embroidery

Anna Zilboorg’s Firework socks, featured on the cover of January/February 2011, are a particular PieceWork favorite.

Pippi’s Long Stockings to Knit

Cast on a pair of these delightful stockings designed by Laura Ricketts.

Vicki's Vintage Vacation: A Collection of Tips for Knitting Weldon's Socks and Stockings

Join knitwear designer Vicki Square on an excursion through knitting Weldon's socks and stockings.

Vicki’s Vintage Vacation: The Fine Gauge of Victorian Stockings

Victorian women knitted their stockings with yarn finer than our contemporary sock yarn.

PieceWork Recommends: 50 Tips from Shetland Knitters

Slip a copy of 50 Tips from Shetland Knitters, and sit back with your knitting, as you enjoy an active exchange between two expert knitters.

Making Felt: A Timeless Textile Which Is Easy to Create

Making felt is an ancient art, possibly the oldest method of creating fabric on record.

Vicki’s Vintage Vacation: A Turn of the Sock Heel

Weldon’s-era Victorian knitters had some interesting ideas and innovations for sock heels particular to various countries from the United Kingdom to the continent.

Weldon’s Ladies Useful Stockings to Knit

Enjoy this excerpt from “Ladies Useful Stockings to Knit,” an adaptation from Weldon’s Practical Needlework featured in PieceWork March/April 2010.

Bobbin Boy to the Rescue!

Meet Alan and Milissa Dewey, the fiber-tool restoration duo behind Bobbin Boy.We had to know more about these superheroes of the spinning world.

Andean Knitting: Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez's Video Workshop

PieceWork invited Spin Off editor Anne Merrow to give us an inside perspective about Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez's video workshop, Andean Knitting.