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Timeless Tips and Techniques for Mending

Patching, darning, and mending are enduring ways to cover a weak or broken spot in your fabrics, prolong the life of a cherished garment, and to enjoy embellishing it at the same time. Explore each of them with this All Access exclusive guide.

Tips for Practical Sock Knitting: French Heels Versus Dutch!

Nancy Bush uses two heel types frequently in her ebook Vintage Socks to Knit: the French heel and the Dutch heel.

The Gilded Age—Call for Submissions PieceWork Fall 2023

Submit your proposals for the Fall 2023 issue of PieceWork and help us explore textile traditions that use metallic threads and fibers.

Welcome Pat Olski, PieceWork Magazine’s New Editor

With a publication as well loved as PieceWork, we think a lot about the importance of making new friends but keeping the old, and never as much as when we welcome a new editor.

A Stitch in Time: Running Stitch

Learn how versatile the running stitch can be, a stitch that dates back to the beginning of sewing itself.

What in the World is an Antimacassar?

A staple of a Victorian home included decorative antimacassars, like the Cosy Antimacassar featured in Weldon’s Practical Knitter Eleventh Series eBook.

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Glorious Gloves to Knit

Learn about knitted liturgical gloves for elite churchmen in medieval and early modern Europe. And, PieceWork subscribers, find the pattern to make your very own pair!

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Back-to-School Stories and Projects from PieceWork

No matter how many years it’s been since you last heard the peal of a schoolhouse bell, August means there will soon be new books to pore over, new skills to tackle, and new people to meet.

Exploring Ukrainian Culture

As a follow-up to her article in PieceWork Fall 2022, Amber Rose Ostaszewski provides additional resources for learning more about Ukrainian culture.

A Stitch in Time: Two-Sided Italian Cross-Stitch

The two-sided Italian cross-stitch is a square, densely textured stitch and is another member of the large cross-stitch family.