PieceWork Spring 2024

Read about the hardworking men and women throughout the ages who have picked up their needles to supplement their income, or to clothe their loved ones. PieceWork Spring 2024 is full of tales and projects ranging from the resourceful Irish nuns who created an international lace industry, to the highly skilled Peruvian knitters whose trademark hats are part of their remote island heritage.

• Knit renowned designer Hazel Tindall’s delightful tea cozy as a treat for yourself, or as a gift for someone special!
  
• Share in the history of the industrious men, women, and children who dropped everything to knit necessities for the soldiers of World War I.
  
• Stitch Deanna Hall West’s beautiful silk embroidery forget-me-nots—the second in a series based on a Victorian piece from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  
• Embroider a stunning biscornu from counted thread legend Yvette Stanton’s book, Frisian Whitework.
  
• Learn how early twentieth century immigrant Armenian women stitched Marash embroidery pieces as a way to improve their circumstances and find out how to construct the signature stitch.
  

All items in the library are intended for personal use. Please do not distribute without written approval.