Volume XII Number

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F EAT
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42KORSNAS

SWEATERS: CROCHETED
GIFTS OF LOVE

AND KNITTED

JECTS

Young women from the small Finnish village of'Korsnas crocheted and. knitted intricate sweaters for their fiances.
C HO I FE /I C IH c l: erR h a a de"

26

Embroider
embroidered

a Rose-Petal
it on silk for a box-top

Heart
rose petal from a linen tablecloth and insert,

Linda Moore selected a single heart-shaped

46

Crochet

a Bag with Ko rsnas Motifs

crocheted this Korsnas ~d motif. and
DEPARTMENTS
VOl.UME

28

THE ROSE This elaborately

TABLECLOTH embroidered on page 26. tablecloth from the Historic Costume and of Colorado State University inspired the embroidery

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Carol HuebscherRhoades THE

SI:~

;~t: ::

t~:t:o~~~anCing

XII

NUMBER

January/February

2004

Love Story: a poet, an actress, and a warp-resist-dyed triuged shawl made in Ecuador De/)o"~/i Dwyer AND LOVE

Textiles Collection project presented Linda Ca.r/S(JII MAN'S Cornwall,

5
Notions

NEEDLEWORK

Editor's letter 7
By Post

52

Anniversary Doily, by Diane Willett Raggedy Ann, by Polly Havins

FISHER a cliff in Pclperro,

LOVER of a woman standing and knitting beside United Kingdom

This poelJ.1 was inspired by a photograph

52FUNCTION VICTORIAN

PLUS FASHION:
SMOKING CAPS ornarel y emmi d-nineteen

Letters FOIII readers

JOlle

Galer

l5
Book Marks

3I

Knit Our Polperro

to knit for men.

Gloves
gloves

o uri ng tne
their rooms,
Di·aJle

til century, men wore

broidered velvet cups while smoking in the privacy of

Nlagllo

Books

if intern!

Nancy Bush, moved by Jane Galer's poem, designed these patterned

19
Necessities

34

MORE

LOVE

TFIAN

MONEY:

GIFTS

OF

THE 19305

55 58

Bead a Tudor Rose on a Velvet Hat

Sandie Abel dresses up a velvet hat with a latefifieenth-century motif, the Tudor rose.

Needlework supplies

During worked Jane

the Depression, Reid

many women

exchanged

gifts of textiles that they had

68
Calendar

with needle and thread.

Upcomil1g events
COLUMNS

37

Make a Purse in. Tunisian

crochet in this richly textured purse.

Crochet

Embroider

a Tea Towel
Valentine's Day.

Kathleen Power Johnson utilizes the technique of Tunisian

Mary Polity ka B nsh brin gs us this 1. 930s-sty Ie tea towel just in time for

Stitch a Blackwork Heart

From the Embroiderers' Guild of America's
ON THE COVER: LINEN TABLECLOTH WITH A SPRAY OF ROSES EMBROIDERED WITH SILK THREADS. FROM THE HISTORIC COSTUME. AND TEXTILES COLLECTION, COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY, FORT COLLINS, COLORADO. SEE THE ROSE TABUCLOTH ON PAGE 28. Phowg"!I'/' by Joe C,tll.

39

60THE
Eliza

to
Tapestry

RIDDLE

OF

The new and noleworthy

TUNISIAN documented

CROCHET crochet have been

century,

22
Findings

Although examples of Tunisian

as early as the mid-nineteenth

the origin of the technique is still disputed.

be t]: K IJ r r

PresenlJ'ng the legacy qf Needlework by finding ways to use and reuse new, old, orfoul1d objects

extensive needlework heart motif

collection comes this blackwork to stitch.

62

4Z
1111

Stitch a Miniature Spot Sampler

Page Dorsey continues the

Victorian

65
A sampliNg
Shay Pendray's Trimmings of patterns, thans, and

WI-IAT

Is

instruaions to stitch

BLACKWORK? consists of with a series

tradition of Victorian spot samplers with frfteen separate motifs

[0

Centuries

old, blackwork

80
Portrait

42

intricate pattems worked A Blalock

stitch.

of straight stitches and backstitches,

An interuiew with textile designer par excellence Kqffe Fasseu

22

Catherine

AIIIOIWo

Leslie

Volume XII Number 2:

F
'E.

4
A T U RES /

2SHELLWORK COLONIAL

SHADOW-Box PHILADELPHIA

GROTTOES

FROM

L) u 0

These three-dimensional

scenes created

with seashells and

other objects proclaimed a family's wealth and status in

eighteenth-century England and America. Ln u ra Ke i m St u im a n

4SILKEN

BIRDS

AND PLANTS

FROM

SOUTHEAST

ASIA

The intricate and masterful embroidery and plan ts of Southeast Linda

on this linen fabric captures the birds

47

Crochet
consignment

a Shell-Pattern
shop, Maggie

Bonnet
baby bonnet found at a this bonnet to
VOLUME

Asia in exg Ll isite detail.

Inspired by a tum-of-the-century

XII

NllMBER

28 Embroider
Linda Moore,

Moore

Petsch crocheted

a Blue Bird amid Spring Blossoms

inspired by the Southeast Asian fabric, selected a bird

49

welcome

a new baby. CLOTHS OF KOREA of wrapping cloths, or bojagi,

D-El'ARTMliNTS

Marchi April 2004

WRAPPING
The sewing

and embroidering

5
Notions

30

and wisteria blossoms to stitch in silk.

was often the only creative outlet for Korean women of the

Knit Nordic

Flower

Sachets
knitting pattems, the

joseon dynasty. Ri t a Rogers

Editor's letter

Nancy Bush welcomes

spring with two traditional

7 a Wrapping
continues

32

m_ aybell, or lily of the valley, from Estonia and the rose from Sweden. VIOLETS
FOR SPRING

52Embroider
Judy Kettner

Cloth
doth.

By Post

the KOrean tradition of

Leuersjron.

readers

Since the third century,

violets have served as symbols oflove

and spring

on letters, textiles, and books.

54

wrapping gifts in bojagi with this embroidered

15
Book Marks

Embroider
Consuela

a Sewing

Case
way to store and

Bootes oj interest I8
Necessities GUNN: COULD

Deborah

Dw y er

Rockliff-Stein

offers a fashionable

34Embroider

a Bib with Violets

from Deborah
Dwyer's

Inspired by the pinafore

collection, bib.

56
60

org<!., nize threads and needlework tools. EVDOKIA SARECHEFF

Y AKOVLEFF
SHE Evdokia

Needlework s/JPplies

M.AKING
Despite

A LIFE WHEREVER
hardships,

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Calendar

36
38 40
ON THE COVER: INSP.IREDBY KOREAN tJO)ACI, JUDY KmNER EMBROIDERED THIS GIFT WRAP. SEE EMBII.QIDEl< II WRAPPING CLOTH ON PAGE 52.

JAPANESE Although indigenous the beautifully

Mary Polityka Bush brings us this sweet springtime COUNTRY the silk kimonos appliqued EMBROIDERY of urban Japan are familiar and embroidered
to

incredible

Sarecheff Yakovleff

Gunn was a knitter

and crocheter to the end of her life.

IIlId Ellell

Upcoming events

Westerners,

Na!ltY

Nclirill:<_

Baker OF ORNAMENTATION: AND NATIVE

COLUMNS

robes of the

THE

TRANSFORMATION TRADE DRESS

people of Japan's northernmost outside that country.

EUROPEAN AMERICAN Carolina century

GOODS

lO
Tapestry

island are hardly known

Dolores

Ball.'II/11

Native Americans

Hving in present-day North

and South

The new and noteworthy

and Georgia dur-

32

Stitch a Pansy Magnet

Teresa Iversen's stitched pansies, when used as refrigerator magnets,

ing the early eighteenth

21
Presenting the legacy if needlework by finding ways to use and reuse new, old, orjound object~
Findings

used European

will light up a kitchen.

goods to embellish and

clothe,
K (/1/1 Y 51(/pi es

Embroider Pincushion
Susan Greening

a Counted-Thread
Davis's pincushion with silk

65
A sampling

threads and ribbons wilJ delight needleworkers.

On the Web:
Crochet Evdokia's One of Edgings by See

4patterns,

Shay Pendray's Trimmings

charts, and instructions to stitdt

80
Portrait
AI'I

Nancy Nehring.

56

page 59 for details.

interview with Shay Pendray, host f.!/ the PBS television series
Needle Arts Studio

Cal.herine Amoroso Leslie

it

t"l

,d :

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r

: ;,
1

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Number

3
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50

KNIT

SOCKS

FOR A FLOWER

GIRL

ttt

I!iI
,

: , : i :!
r r

. ; , , !, : :
!, I
r

!.

,
ii

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!

, : fj : !'

,t

Nancy Bush adds a special touch to a Aower girl's outfit.

A MORAVIAN WEDDING COSTUME

24 28

This spectacular ensemble most likely was passed down through several generations. Lin d n Moore
EMBROIDER AND BEAD A WEDDING STOLE
VO:WM.E

WEDDING

TIMELINE fashions beginning in 1800. G BOOTS

Trace 'wedding-gown LATE-NIN

ETEENTI-I-CENTUR leather bootsfi:om

Y WEDDIN

These handmade

28

Italy illustrate just one style of wedding footwear, SHOES

52

Nancy Disney's beade.d stole is a perfect wedding accessory.

TRADITIONAL FOR WEDDINGS Y oung women
1\1

XlI

NUM.BEI~

INDIAN

BEADWORK
DEPA.RTMENTS

May/June 2004

EMBROIDER

A PAIR OF WEDDING

31

Linda Moore adapted these dainty silk wedding shoes. STITCH A WEDDING
to

In dia create bea ded an d em broidered accessories for

their weddings and trousseaus.

5
Notions

KEEPSAKE ENVELOPE uses the same motifs

This silk envelope

hold cards and mementos wedding shoes. WEDDING

32 33 34

found on the embroidered MARY wedding

MARCELLA

54
56 57

B.riliriO Gill

Editor's letter
BRIDAL ROBE

KOREAN

This exquisitely embroidered robe is modeled after the bridal robe

WOOl

7
By POSt Letters frolll readers

MAUCK'S dress.

GOWN

in 1830 by a Korean princess.

Marcella Mauck married Lewis McClurg

gOWll

Steenrod June 15, 1905. Here are her

Re n ee Re n o u] STITCH A MONOGRAM PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM

and going-away

15
Book Marks

j a ne Schade HANDKERCHIEFS to create handkerchiefs

Al'llie

FOR A WEDDING

Books of interest

FROM A WEDDING

GOWN tnm from her 1914 wedding gown for their weddings,

Here is an ideal way for a bride to show 11e[appreciation to members

l8
Necessities

Sarah Laura Bisping Meyer used the embroidered Meyel' Will, Do ro th v ,Heyer

of [he wedding party,

NEEDLEPOINT CUFF LINKS

for each of her granddaughters Gerlt a rd t , alld

Needlework. supplies

Je~1I

Meyer

Bnrtn

FOR THE GROOMSMEN

67
to tuxedo

Two BEADED WEDDING

they beaded the brides' dresses. WEDDING

GOWNS

Laura Levaas and Kathie Karbowski gave two of their fiiends special wedding gifts-

58
60
62

Judy Kettner's needlepointedcu

FOLK ANIMALS

If links add panache

'

shirts,

Calendar

Upcoming events
COLUMNS

AND FLOWERS

-14
ON THE COVER: EMBROIDER AND BrA() A WEDDING 5 PAGE 50.

35 36
tou.

WEDDING

QUILT

Eva Frank made chis wedding quilt for her daughter Sevina's 1870 wedding, Carol Pearsall share their handkerchiefs,
Ellcil Ko rt REPRODUCTION WEDDING GOWNS

HANDKERCH1EFS

lO
Tapestry

Nancy Di.sney, Debornh. Dwyervand

The ne.w and notewortity

A FAMILY LEGACY
Helen Ruth Marvin Colton's
the author's most cherished Liz Ci p s on A BRIDAL HEADPIECE made the headpiece and she and Liz Gipson collaborated wedding gown and shoes and other textiles are among possessions.

PEIUOD reproduction Joyce

21
PI'cscfllil1g the legar)l if n.eedlework by.fi ndin,g ways to lise Findings

Maggie Abbott Wa.rd helps brides live their fantasies by creating

wedding gowns.
u er

Faulk
A

38

and
ADAM AND EVE collection come Adam

reuse

fle)'lJ,

old, orfourrd objects

BEAD

STITCH

1797

Amy C. Clarke-Moore

From the Embroiderers' Guild of America's and Eve as depicted on a 1797 sampler.

65
Shay Pendray's Trimmings A sampling qf patterns, charts, and

On the Web: Ribbon Wedding See Embroider

a

40

on a matching veil. BLUE, Wedding

Aimee

GREEN,

GOLD,

AND BROWN:

EIGHTEENTHDRESSES Village, Sturbridge,

63
U)

instructions-monograms,
ADAM AND EVE IN SAMPLERS

crochet, tatting

80
Portrait

AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY dresses in the collection demonstrate E. Newell Massachusetts,

WEDDING of Old Sturbridge

Guest Book.

Over the centuries, Adam and Eve, sometimes i.n surprising costumes. have
been the subject of countless
AUI1

p<lge 76 for details.

that not all wedding gowns were white ..

samplers.

An interview with Judith. Baker Monrano, who fueled the resurgence /if crazy quilling Catherine AltIaroso Leslie

Blalock

Volume XII

Number 4
RES

44
PRO

EMBROIDER

A POSTAGE

STAMP

Linda Moore stitched a stamp with a hoop-and-needle for the window of a keepsake letter box

motif

F
1"'!rt

EAT

22

45
and Norwegian TWAIN is one of the

MINIATURE TEXTILE

WORKS AND

OF ART:

COLLECTING STAMPS

NEEDLEWOHK

KNIT

TRAVELER'S

POCKET

Since 1893, textile- and needlework-themed have been issued around the world.

stamps

Nancy Bush, inspired by medieval Islamic, northern European,

24
28

motifs, knitted this useful travel accessory. RED FEZZES AND YELLOW LANGDON vest worn by
Rassell
all

SLIPPERS:

MARK LAND

48
50
worked

Diann

e-u»
VOLUME

XII

NUMBER

ROYAL

COACH

PROCESSIONS PORTUGAL

IN

AND CHARLIE An embroidered Ly un e Zacek THE

IN THE HOLY

EARL Y MODERN coaches highlighted

July! August 2004

DEPARTMENTS

Egyptian drngonwl1 (interpreter)

Silver- and gold-embroidered seventeenth century.

D'o

banners, sidesaddles, tunics, and

during the

souvenirs of Twain and Langdon's trip to the Holy Land.

Portuguese royal processions

Notions

lo res

BnllS'1I1!

Editor's letter
SWEET BABY BOOTIES

CECILIA

PAYNE-GAPOSCHKIN STORY

CAs-A

KNIT

THESE

NEEDLEPOINT

Inspired by the work of Odette Anastasi, Evelyn A. Clark knitted

three variations of baby booties.

By Post

A vivid X-ray image of supernova Cassiopeia-A inspired the needlepoint

Letters from readers

Book Marks

by the legendary astronomer.

(11111

30

R. ltV II I' //11 a II NEEDLEPOINT needlepoint A CAs-A CLUTCH pmse. ISN'T FOR SISSIES camp. PURSE Ca:>-A

51
a detail of John R. Whitman's HANDLES

ODETTE ITALIAN

ANASTASI'S BOOTIES

KNITTED

'5

Books (if interest

These labors oflove were knitted in Italy and sold in baby shops and boutiques around the world.
Mar), Bergb a uuuer

Judy Kettner needlepointed

18
Necessities

32
34
34
ON THE COVER" NANCY BUSH PREPARES YOU FOR A IOURNEY. SEE "KNIT A TRAVELER'S POCKET" ON PAGE 22.

on this eye-catching

KNITTING

WITH POT

53

Needlework supplies
TAG

NEEDLEPOINT

A LUGGAGE

After his plane was sh at down during Wodd War Il, the Australian Jim Simpson used pot handles to knit a blanket while in a prisoner-of-war
Don
1111

Designed by Melinda Barta and stitched by Judy Kettner, this Eiffel

62
Calendar

Dnl(h

un a s

54
56

Tower luggage tag will complement your travel ensemble.

STITCHES PROM A BYGONE TIME:

Upcol'llil1g events

MOTHER

AND SON'S

COLLABORATION

READING

INTO HISTORY: NARRATIVES

SUSAN BOARDMAN'S

NANTUCKET whaling captain,

Inspired by the work of ills naval-architect father, seven-yen-old Russell Thorp Kirby made sketches that IDS mother transformed
into an embroidered
Elilily

COLUMNS

EMBROIDERED Susan Boardman

10

Inspired by the journals of Susan Veeder, the wife of a Nantucket embroidered

a /I 10 )'

table cover.

Tapestry

her story.

B. K'rb),
A ROSE PINWHEEL

The new and notewoethy

21

ul i a Fe i II A

STITCH

36

CROSS-STITCH counted-thread map.

AN ARCTIC

MAP JOURNAL

COVER

One of four accessories fi·om.England's Royal School of Needlework's Country Garden Collection, this pinwheel combines raised embroidery and goldwork,

Begin a logbook of your journeys with Elly Smith's travel-inspired

WIN

rI

Spring

38

Preserving the legacy if needlework by finding 1,lmys to Hse and reuse new, old, oj' found objects

Findings

FROM CHINA:

UNCLE

CHARLIE'S

DRAGONS

66
Shay Pendray's Trimmings
ON THE WEB: STHCH THE AZTEC STITCH ON A BOOKMARK. SEE PAGE 43 FOR DETAILS.

Daffodil Sturnpwork Embroidery Kit jnlllllll<' Royal School I![ Needlework. See page 59.

These ornately embroidered

silk shantung pillow shams and coverlet from the Orient

.0.Mar)'
Pal

have been treasured for generations. Pol i t y k» BlISh SAMPLEnS FROM THE WITTE MUSEUM Mexican samplers.

A samplill£ o[patterns, charts, and r:nstnlctions-monogran'ls, a thartto crossstitch or needlepoint, Armenia« elnvroidery

MEXICAN
Ro e

72Portrait

San An tonio, Texas, is home to fifty-two rare nineteenth-century e nd a l

An intervieu: with needlel)oiflt artist and poet Stephen Beal Catheril1e Amoroso Leslie

IEeE
Volum e XII Number 5
FEATOHES/PROJECTS

48

WARDING CHINESE

OFF

EVIL: BOOTIES AND SHOES

CHTLDREN'S

For centuries, Chinese children's dothing and footwear were embroidered to ward ofTevil and ensure success in tbe future. Valel')'
Garrell

22

LEARNlNG SCHOOLGIRL

Is

AN ORNAMENT:

52
1770-1850
(DAR) Museum

Embroider

Back-to-School

Shoes

Tradi tional Chinese floral motifs decorate the sides of th ese

Anr

AND EDUCATION,

Examples from the Daughters of the American Revolution the schools. and the young Ladieswho stitched it.
Oliu e Bl a i r Grl1ffam

highlight schoolgirl art that helps define the lives and times of the teachers,

54

sweet velvet Mary Janes for a little girl.

Applique

a Butterfly

This colorful butterfly inspired by the butterflies on a family quilt belol1gi.ng to Wanen Wright adorns a fashionable girl'~ jacket.

v 0 LV ME

XII

NUMBER

September/October
DEPARTMENTS

2004

26 Cross-Sri
in

tch a Schoolgirl

Sampler
Guild of America.

Stitch the alphabet and two motifs from a schoolgirl sampler now

55

QUILTED

MEMORIES

WalTen Wright
R III Ii 0' Neil

grew up surrounded by quilts made in the

moun tai ns of A ppalachia. The author examines several of them.

28

the collection of the Embroiderers'

THE WORLD: EMBROIDERED

Notions

STITCHING WESTTOWN

SCHOOL'S

GLOBES

58

Editor's letter
ICON FROM RUSSIA

AN EMBROIDERED

A
S

rare Russian embroidered icon is on display at Hillwood Museum rc

By Post

Family documents and Westtown embroidered

[ud.i t l, A. WORKING T'yn e r ON THE SPIRIT

School attendance records indicate that the earliest

and Gardens in W'aslungton, D.C.

II Z(! 111.1 ~

Letters from readers

globe probably was made in 1804 and the last in 1844.

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Iii

II

14

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36

OF THE

CHILD:

60
curricula

Embroider

a Russian Angel

Book Marks

Beth Robertson based this project on the two smaller angels found on the embroidered Russian icon now on display at Hillwood Museum and Gardens in Washington, D.C.
MAKE LIGHT WORK: •

Books of interest

NEEDLEWORK

IN CLASSROOMS
HC:W,

18
Necessities

Needlework
Li da

found a fresh role in the

"object-based"

of the nineteenth and early twentieth centu ries,

u Mo ore

62
44

Needlework supplies

MANY

HANDS

CO NSER VIN GAB

R USSELS TAPESTRY
of Canada's Glenbow Museum.

68
Calendar

Embroider

a Giraffe

Explore the conservation of a Brussels tapestry woven about 17'JO and now in the collection
L l' II II MrS
11.1111<'

Upcornil1g evenis
CO.LUMNS

38

A handkerchief in Anne Bossert's collection inspired this stately giraffe appliqued on a back-to-school denim luuch bag.
KNITTING her hometown,
[a u e Ca m-p b e l ! THE

TOWN'S

HISTORY

64

Tapestry

Crochet

a Cat Pillow
to

10

The author designed and knitted a coverlet illustrating the history of using patterns whose names evoke elements of that history,

Carol Ventura provides complete instructions

make tills whimsical

Tapestry

pillow, using the centuries-old technique of tapestry crochet.

The ne.w and l1.otewol,thy

40 42
ON THE COVER; EMBROIDERED BOY'S
TIGER SHOES FROM THE HISTORIC COSTUME AND TEXTILES COlLECTION AT COLORADO STATE UNIVERSllY. SEE WARDING OFF EVIL: CHINESE CHILDREN'S BOOT/E5 AND 51-10E!i ON PAGf48.

Knit a Girl's

Cap
for today's back-to-school crowd.

66
.

TAPESTRY

CROCHET

AROUND THE WOl<.LD

13
Shay Pendray's Trimmings

Variations oftapesrry crochet are found in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
Carol
Veil/lira

Nancy Bush adapted the "Girl's Cap in Mullion Stripe Pattern" in Volume 28 of Weldon's Practical Needlework

lVlonograms
20 Findings

Stitch

a Yarn-Sewn

Lion Cushion
1101]

Meg Grossman stitched a delightful

based

01]

a hearthmg in the collection century.

at Old Sturbridge Village using a technique popular in the early nineteenth

44

HOME YARN

Is

WHERE

THE

HEARTHRUG NEW

Is:

SEWING

IN RURAL

ENGLAND

Often mistaken for hooked rugs, yarn-sewn rugs made during the early 1800, offered a colorful way to protect the floor or an imported carpet from the sparks of the parlor fire.
il,llier

E.

Newel!

On the: Web: Embroider ,\ Globe During the nineteenth century, SOme schoolgirlspracticed their needlework and learned geography by stitching globes. Nancy Nehring shows you how to embroider your own globe. For instruaionsjor 'he globe, visit U)II'UI. i ntenueave. com /lteedle Iprojects_<Irticies. asp or Sefid a stamped, se!f..addressed business-size envelope PieceWork Globe, 201 E. Fourth 51., Loveland, CO 8053 7~5655. See page 31 Jor more de/ails. Photograph by Joe Coca.

Presewing the legacy if l1.eed.lewor.k by Jifldil'lg ways to use and reuse /lew, old, orJound objects

80
Portrait All inieroiew with author, designe», and teacher Candace Kling, who has a passion for antique ribbonwor.k Catherine Amoroso J..£slie

'0

42
.

METlUTES

AND

GRAFTES:

Greek Embroideries
are the result of cenGreece

.. Greek traditions, including those ofneedlework, turies of trade and warfare between
El i z ab e th A. Mirdleli and Sal/)I

and her neighbors.

Volume XII

Number 6
/ PRO

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JECTS

46
48

J.

'Th u r s t o u

Cross-Stitch
Sally

a Greek-Inspired
chose traditional

Ornament

J. Thurston

Greek embroidery motifs

for this holiday ornament.

22

PREACHER

LEWIS'S

MISSION

OF

CROCHET

Stitch a Bargello
Bargello's

Ornament
history inspired Beth
VOLUME

. In the early years of the twentieth

DOHI/a

century, the Episcopal pnest Preacher Lewis,

.long and fascinating

in spite of all of his duties, found time to crochet. Druclnt nas inspired by Preacher Lewis's crocheted baby caps in two sizes.

Robertson's sparkling holiday ornament.

26

Crochet Baby Caps

Donna Druchunas, accomplishments,

49

BARGELLO:
Hollis Grecr

Cloaked
Min ov

in Legend

xn

NUMBER

The origin of the name bargello remains mysterious.

November/December.
DI'.PAf(TM·6NTS

2004

28
.

51

Knit Tiny Holiday

easy-to-make

Stockings
Notions

7
Editor's letter

A SIOUX

DOLL
tu ry

Adorn packages or your holiday tree with Sally Melville's dolJ ill th e collection of the American M useurn of N atural

. This nin eteen th-cen

De/lora!. Pull i a III

History wears the formal regalia of a Sioux woman ..

52 54
56 57

stockings.

Stitch a Christmas

Wish Ornament

Stitching-band fublic makes finishing easy, and silk thread

29 ~::~:n~d~~~~S
[n n e Reid
ON THE COVER: TAT A SNOWFLAKE.

~1Fc~:I~l~ indigenous dress are popular

souvenirs

and ribbons add a touch of elegance to Susan Greening

8 By Post Letters fron! readers

II

Davis's. holiday ornament.

and a vital source of income for many Peruvian women.

Embroider
Earthenware inspired

a Swan for an Ornament

tiles designed

Necessities

by William Manis in 1862

holiday ornament.

Needlework supplies
20

32 34 35
36

this blue-and-white

FATHER

CHnISTMAS

A knitted Father Christmas doll (rom England has played a rll.~or role in the author's passion for knitting, Kale Blick. CLOTH DOLL

Tat

Snowflake
tatted snowflakes are perfect for holiday decorations.

Book Marks

Books of interest

Ethereal

PAGE 56.
RQ"" d totted ",,,u1/I1k,, " I' "II, yr" P/wl'W"pil by Jor Co",.

68
Calendar

0',,,''''

29

Knit a Ball
Deborah Pulliam's

quick-and-easy knitted bail will delight

Upcoming events

AN UNFINISHED

On the Web:
KNIT FATTrrn Crrmsrwxs Arm 'Budd shows you how to re-create Kate Buck's circa-'1955 knitted Father
Christmas doU.

The author's doll, lacking aile arm, holds special memories of her mother's needlework and the joy of sharing,
Doris Wells Cnrb on e

58
60
62

chil dren, pets, and ad ul ts.

Em broider

"Vegimals"

on a Bib
COLUMNS

These fanciful creatures by Renie Breskin Adams will make the reci pienr of this bib giggle.

14
Tapestry

SKEEZIX:

The Bear Who Has Delighted Four Generations

tradition of "use it up, make do, or do without,"
IS
l

Crochet
Ivy Bigelow's
ll11meWUS

Woodland
winter tales.

Finger Puppets

For COlli plele instruaions, visit wrml' ..illtcrwemle

.coni/rdrpw J! rojeas or send
II

Created in the Depression-era this washcloth bear

[ud i t
b

bird, fox, and bear will be tbe stars of

The new and /i,oteworthy

a family treasure.

18
Shay Pendray's

Dal/is

Gu

c]:

Embroider
Reminiscent

a Holly

Tablecloth
Linda Moore's

Trimmings

stamped,

s~!J:~ddressed
business-size

AARON HOUSES

FRIEDMAN'S

EXQUISITE

MINIATURE EXCEPTIONAL NEEDLEWORK

of bot anica I engravings,

WITH SARAH FRIEDMAN'S

envelope ta PieceWork Doll, 2V'/ E. Pour/II 51., Loveland, CO 80537-5655. See page 33 for dctalls.
I'lw"'gml'/' b)·
j(H:

ACCESSORIES Seven of eight miniature houses, created over a period of fifteen years by a talented couple, are on display in the Special Collections Exhibit Gallery at the Museum of Mobile in Mobile, Alabama.
D'ia
l1a

63

holly-sprig design brings holiday cheer,

A sampling qf patterns, charts, and instructitms-l'l"Ionograms, chicks to ooss-stitch, holiday bells in..fi let crochet

Knit Socks for a Guy

Nancy Bush offers a perfect gift for your f.worire man.

80 a Town
Pn~sen'h,tg the legacy cif needlework by finding ways to use and reuse new, old, orJow'II1 objects
Findings

64

~ULI~
1I1

PURNELL'S

MUSEUM:

Keeping

Stitches

Ln m bd ! 11 Meyer

At the age of eighty-five, Julia Purnell began stitching the more

c,... ".

40

Cross-Stitch
B.

Pillows for a Miniature Dollhouse

pillows will complement a variety of

than 1,nOO folk-art-style needlework pictures for which she is. best remembered.
Ja n e Reid

J. Vieregg's

diminutive

miniature interiors.

18

Volume XIII
FE

Number

1
R.O]ECTS

ORK.
a Backpack
AND PUMPKIN HOODS: Dressing for

46

BABY CARRIERS OF HONG KONG AND NEIGHBORING MAINLAND CHINA

For centuries, it has been the custom in China for a mother to carry her baby on her back in a handmade patchwork and embroidered carrier.
Valery Go rre t t

ATURES/P

19

Knit, Felt, and Embroider

The palette Leigh Radford selected for her stunning backpack evokes the colors used in ancient and modern. Moroccan textiles.

Sew and 49 Embroider

VOLUME X[IJ

NUMBER 1

Baby Carrier
Mel Persion sewed and embroidered this eye-catching carrier for today's baby.

January/February
DEPAR.TMENTS

2005

22
-

FROCKS, CLOAKS,

Winter
Aimee E.

in Early-Nineteenth-Century
Newell

New England

Explore the clothing that helped New Englanders escape winter's chill.

5
Notions

27

K.nit an Old Shale Shawl

Evelyn A. Clarks knitted shoulder shawl incorporates the traditional Old Shale pattern G'Onl the Shetland Islands.

52 Hungarian Donlin

SHE SAW FLOWERS

IN HER

DREAMS:

Edilor's letter 7
By Post

Embroidery

Designer

Bo ri Kis Janko
in th e

30

Bori Kis Jan k6 was an JJ1 nova rive and talented needleworker early twentieth century in Mezbkovesd, Hungary.
Fe nto r

Letters [ron: readers 14

Necessities

EARLY-SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH EMBROIDERED JACKETS

M ore than rwen ty English embroidered jackets from the fi rst quarter of rhe seventeenth cen tury survive worldwide. Brentta Res s ea u

56

CLOTHES FROM COLORFUL SACKS

In the early decades ofthe twentieth century, many North American families, the author's included, relied on colorful printed flour or feed sacks to keep clothes on their backs.
Ro s al ie Te n uis o n

Needleuore supplies

15
Book Marks

34
ON THE COVER: A PIECED AND EMBROIDERED BABY CARRIER. PAGE 49.

Embroider a Peapo d on a French Cuff

Brenda Rosseau embellished a shirt cuff with a peapod, Oil e of the motifs fou nd on earlyseventeenth-century English embroidered jackets.

Books oj interest

64
Selbu Mittens
Calendar

58

Knit and Embroider

36
.

Knit Damsh Wristlets

Nancy Bush adapted the pattern
fOL" these wristlets from an eighteenthcentury knitted vest llOW in the collecrion of the Nordsjellandsk Polkemuseurnin Hillered, Denmark.

These knitted and embroidered mittens were inspired by hand coverings that were part of traditional Norwegian folk costumes.

Upcom.ing events

COLUMNS 10 Tapestry

61

A DRESS

MADE

FOR A QUEEN

38

DANISH

KNITTED

VESTS

This magnificent. dress is believed to have belonged to Queen Woyzaro Teruuesh, second wife of Em peror Tewodros [I of Ethiopia (circa 1818-1868).
l)n till ,",v .. b:

The neu) and n.oteworthy

62
Preserving the legacy of needlework by finding ways to remalee and reuse riel», old, orJoul/d objects
Portrait Findings

Danish women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries wore their knitted vests day and night.
Lila Ro s in g=Scli ow

J! r-.lIlRllj[!1

1<. '\ [lUNG

uu ,\N

J)(}li ~

40 Bead-Knit
Trompe

a Tank Top with L'Oeil Cables

The bead patterning in this tank top by Lily M. Chin creates the illusion of cables.

Donna Fenlon's doily, inspired by [be drawings ofBori Kis J:mk6, contains some of her popular flower motifs. including a tulip and two rypes of rose: (see page 55).

72

42
Do
II

NEEDLEWORKERS

OF THE NORTH:

The Inupiat and Yup'ik

of Alaska

to lI1ake the doil)', visit /rd /pIl1prl!iCl:r,' (lr ~end rI </ol1lped, .<c!fmldres:;ed business-sise ,·,,!l(lope Piece Work 1'i'III,~an·anDvi/JI, 201 E. FOI.II'1i1 51., Loveland, CO 80537-5655.
illstnl(liml~ WI(~I.<iml~11IIc",1(!. Will

For toniple«:

'0

r4{)~ld!'1!dilf'ie'fS

l"l)rj

Ni'tS}'

~if ~mJ L

fVfdHfytt.

Port Q,IIiIJj, Cf~'Ol'mJo.. PhMo.~mph 1},1 Joe Cf~"l'r.

An interview with Edward F Maeder, director o{exhibitions and curator oj textiles at Historic Dee/field Catherine Am.oroso Leslie

Alaskan Eskimo women are well known for their prodigious needlework skills, which keep them and their families warm. and dry during the long Arctic winters.
n n D 'II (h
111I

a,

42'
Volume XIII .F E A 1 Number 2:
U R. E SIP
It 0

GEOltGE

WASHINGTON'S
Washington's

MASONIC

APRON
tradide Lafayette.

. Lavishly embroidered tion. George

De I!
0

aprons playa prominent

role in Masonic

was a gift from the Marquis

I·n h D "')' e r

44
J
1:.

Knit French Bath Mitts

Nallcy Bush based these bath mitts on the mirtenlike washcloths used.
In

France .

C1

20

MAY MORRIS
Although May Morris
YI/rlle

AND HER EMBROIDERY

LEGACY

46

F~NN[NG A PASSION; The Hand Fans of Kishor Gordhandas

Kishor Gordhandass collection of about 325 hand fans testifies to the
0 bjecrs,

VOLUME X[IJ

NUMBER

her work was always compared St a u t o n

to that of her famollS father, William,

diversity and beau ty of these functional hand fan, see "On the Web" below. B r ! 'I d ~ G i 1/

To make your own DEPAR.TMENTS

left her own mark on the world of embroidery.

MarchI April 2005

26

Embroider
Melinda design attributed

a Morris

and COl11.pal1Y Design

a portion ora Morris and Company
table runner.

A. Barta re-created

to May Morris Oil an elegant velveteen

50

SLIPS FOR SULGRAVE MANOR

Volunteers for Sulgrave Carol)'11 stitched petit-poin t sli ps as part of a refurbishment George Washington's ancestral plan home. Manor in England,

5
Notions

Editor's letter

28

Embroider
Scotland's

a Thistle

Pillow
pillow.

Barra,,,

7
By Post

national

flower, the thistle, is the focal point of Bobbie

Ashley's Victorian-inspired

Letters [ron: readers

30
59
ON 1HE COVfW B 8BIE ASHI ~Y'S EMBROIDERED TillS TLE rlLLOW PA(.E 28.

9
LITTLE
Bandolier costume. Ojibwa,

SPIKITS

Bead-Embroidered

ON A THR.EAD: Ojibwa Bandolier Bags

of the tradi tional Ojibwa f the Grand Portage ban d of
3

Book Marks

Books

cf interes!
14

bags are an irnpo rtant element Marcie MeT n tire, b d in Me ye r member

0

is an expert in their design.

//I

50

Necessities

Needlework supplies

D i a /I a La

34

COLORFUL EMBROIDERED THE CHINESE CALENDAR

Embroidered Chinese paper cutting,
Liu d a Mo o re

ANIMALS MARK
the northwestern for its embroidery,

52 THE GUATEMALAN
Heavy embroidery, ha llmarks ofthe traditional

THE RAINBOW TEXTILES

imaginative

OF HIGHLANDS
designs, and vibrant colors are Highlands. COLUMNS

64
Calendar

Upcom.ing events

fabrics of the Guatemalan

zodiac animal hangings and shadow puppetry

may be seen throughout

province,

of Gansu and Shaanxi,

an area long renowned

56
and stuffed rooster in celebration Chinese lunar calendar, is
to the ancient

36

Embroider Tbirnble
The traditional inspired

and Sew a Korean-Inspired

silk-embroidered cloth thimbles of Korea

Tapestry

IS

Stitch a Chinese Rooster

Linda Moore of2005, designed this embroidered which, according

Tire new and nOieworlIry

this Horal thimble designed by Melinda A. Barta,

60
Findings

the Year of the Rooster.

59

KOREAN

RANK BADGE
hY'llIgblle (rank
a nt

An ern broidered

badge) identified

the wearer's social

38
20

AMISH KNITTING AND CROCHET: Time-Honored Traditions

With their deliberate, of knitted
DOIIH~

Preserving
have produced a treasury

rank in seventeenth-ceutury Korea.

D'eb ovah Puili

Preserlling the legacy oj needlework by fir/ding ways to remake and reuse lieu;, old, orformd objects

62
Shay Pendray's Trimmings

conscious articles,

way of life, Amish women

and crocheted
D'ruch u na s

ON THE WEB APPLIQUE AN D EM BROI DE.R A HAN D FAN

41

Knit Amish Placemats

Amish "hit-at-miss" inspired Donna knitted and crocheted oval design, placemats Druchunass

A hand fan from the collection of Kishor Gordhandas of India (see page 46) inspired us to create one of our own.
f~}rnl~jJp/(·rt· bJSlnjah.ms u~m~k~ llu~Ja rdsi' ..~ wJr:Jr~.rmerwe{.fm.·.romlrrfIIJUlpT4ytrts or :)md il 5'aml'~::d, $c1/:llddres.~(.-d ~~rjress-$j::tt· r,r.rwlojJc ro Pr~Xt.' ~Huk Fmj, '20/ E. P"",,/, SI.• CO 80537-5655.

A scunpling ojpatlerl1s, charts, and i"Nstnlttlons-Armenian embroidery

72
Portrait

1...>"./.,,,,/.

An interview .w£lh Trida Wilson Nguyen., engineer I e/'I'/broidery designer Catherine An'lOl"OsQ Leslie
AwiqllL'

MrI",y"·.

srissoss muJ Iwt'dll' b~jJk nmm!.,I'}J Colli",.

of UJC~Jl'

T"Qrl

C"/,,,"do. 1'/""OJImp/' Iorjo,·

C"'".

42
Volume XIII
F EAT
LJ

GERMAN
a German

MANGLE

CLOTHS
century until the 19405, included mangle cloths, covers for the linens.

From the early decades of the eighteenth bride's trousseau rollers of box mangles, B er t II I 5
III

used to iron household

it I, - 5 ilil de rs

Number 3
R E -.; I

48
P
Jt

Stitch Monograms
Elly Smith adapted mangle cloths.

and Birds on an Apron

German

the designs for this essential kitchen

ECT

<.;

accessory from the motifs on traditional

18 22

NEEDLEWORKER
The award-winning entries

OF THE YEAR from Piea:IIVork's 2004

contest.

50
I

Stitch a Pulled-Thread
spaced-s-to create this winsome

Basket
padded, and VOLUME basket.

Mary Polityka Bush used simple sarin stirches-e-pulled,

xm

NUMBER

May/June D_EPAR.TM.ENTS is perfect for

2005

THE WEDDING
johann

CLOAK OF JOHANN

GEORG

Georg I, elector of the wealthy German lVI. Stra iun

province of Saxony, wore

this stunning 5 1,1tl S

II

velvet cloak at each of his two weddings.

52 Embroider
Melinda adorning

a Velvet Ribbon
velvet ribbon

A. Barta's richly textured a special gift.

7
Notions

24
26

THE STATE

BED AT OSTERLEY

PARK HOUSE

This state bedchamber contains the furniture and embroidered bed coverings

54-61
From Our

Editor's letter 8
By POSt

LOVE AND WEDDINGS

Readers: John's Anniversary Sampler

designed by Scottish architect Robert Adam in 1775_

Devo,<lh Puil i a tu

by Ami Blalock

Letters from readers

10 Book Marks

TIBEE

FINKELSTEIN'S
transformed

BEADED
an ordinary

GARDEN
apartment into a sparkling

Wedding Goldwork

Handkerchief Wedding

bl' Alln A. Baird

Tibee Finkelstein Devorilli

Manhattan

Album by Flora Ros~f.iky

'beaded garden of wonders,

by Jo WYIII'I JOhll5
Handkerchiefs for a Jewish Wedding

DW)lcr

Books of interest 63
Calendar

A Wedding Handkerchief

and Doll by Ruth H. Clark

28 The

SYMBOL

OF BEAUTY,

SYMBOL

OF LOVE:
C1;,]

A Family Wedding A Ukrainian

Veil by Svlvi« Kochellar Towel by Sandra Ralston Wedding by Gwer! Bi<lkley Kinsler COLUMNS

Peacock Motif
h as been part of J ndian li fe, folklore, an, and

Wedding

The peacock

ft si nee

Stardust Hooked Rug by Paulette Hackman

Crocheting A Wedding A Wedding for a Daughter's Arpillera Canopy by Lise Rosenthal Dress and Accessories

Upcoming events

time immemorial
BrIIH/<l

Gill

by IvL1rY .... ,III.ne Paldcli

32

Embroider
This striking of a silk jewelry

a Peacock
peacock, designed

for a Jewelry Case

by Mel Persion, adorns the lid

A Wedding

14
Tapestry

case.

62

Bonus Love and Wedding Projects On the Web

Cross-Stitch a Token
Merrily all anniversary,

of

Affection

Sampler

The new and noteworthy

20 Findings

34 Knit

a Romantic

Heart Scarf
th e bean m otif for her cashmere scarffro rn an Estonian

Beams's sampler is j ust right for a weddi n g, a Valentine, or as a gift.

Nalley Bush adapted

pattern

created for Greta Garbo in the 1930s.

Embroider

<I

Counted-Thread

Pillow for the

Presenling

the legacy
to

of

36
.
ON THE COVER MEL PERSION'S EMBROIDERED PEACOCK IN THE LID OF A SILK JEWELRY CASE. PAGE 32.

ENGLISH WEDDING KNIVES El'v1BROIDERED SHEATHS

By the early sixteenth
knives housed cmbroidery--eto De
/1 (ll'~

AND THEIR
the custom to give pairs of with silk and metallic and baptisms.

Ring Bearer
Susan Greening bearer's pillow. Davis chose linen fabric and silk threads in white and shades of blue for her ring

needlework by finding way.,

remalee and
objects

reuse neu,> old, orjound

century,

it had become

in sheaths=-many

of which were covered such as weddings

mark special occasions

h P IIII I 11111

72
.

DMCTIME
A poem ror stitchers, St e p h en Be a!

40

Embroider
article, Melinda

a Wedding Cake Knife Sheath

knife sh eaths depicted in Debora b Pulliam's for her

Inspired by the embroidered

A.. Barta designed this sheath with forget-me-nets

sister's J uly 200S weddi ng.

Volume XIIl
F EAT

IEeE ORK.
Number 4
U RES

42
46

FINDING
The discovery

TINA

THE LITTLE

LACE MAKER
the struggles the book. effort to reprint

of a nineteenth-century

novel depicting

of a young lace maker led to a years-long Pe n el op c

BOSI(111

DIME

NOVELS

Tina: Tile Little Lacemaker pop ular in America

~fBrussels

is a classic example

of this genre

in the last decades of the nineteen th century.

I P It () J

I:

C The

s
Coming of Irish
workshops lace.

Va.!:IIa

Za)1o

. ....

20
.

SALVATION FROM STAR.VATION: Crochet Lace to Brittany

When the sardines disappeared were instituted
MnrYI/OIl/je

48
.

BOBBIN
captivated Jllary

LACE: Gossamer

Webs
the technique century. has VOLUME XIIl NUM.BEIl... 4

'Although

the origins of bobbin lace are unknown,

St e nra r : Sale

artists, wearers, and makers since the sixteenth

off the coast of France and starvation loomed,

July/ August 2005

to teach French fishing families the art of making ItVeisch

Irish crochet

51

Make
comb

a Bobb in-Lace
for Cynthia from the Perseid meteor

Bookmark
Tiger's bobbin-bee showers, bookmark

DEPARTMENTS

24
28

The inspiration

MABEL FOSTER
Mabel Foster Bainbridge embroideries,
S'I£1I11

BAINBRIDGE'S

LEGACY

OF LACE
and collected the world. laces and

S
No ti OIlS sampler

was passionate about needlework

and textiles from allover

books,

equipment

52 53
Gre/.C"~II

On th e Web: Knit
Ava Coleman designed of kni ned bee stitches.

a Lace Bookmark
as a miniature

this bookmark

Editor's letter 7

J. Jerome

27
........

011 the

Web: Stitch

a Drawn-Thread

Handkerchief

A BRIEF
Bookmarks

HISTORY
Allgeier

OF BOOKMARKS
century.

Donna La Vallee shows yo u how to wi thdraw an d wr .. p threads to create til is

have been holding readers' places since the sixteenth

By Post

crisp handkerchief.

Letters J/"O/'n readers 8

IMPERIAL IN ROME

LACES FROM THE NAPOLEONIC

of costumes that belonged to

MUSEUM
III

54
. ..

LADY MARGARET'S
The Canadiana Costume century

LACES
and Archives of British Columbia dating from and accessories

Museum

Book Marks

Th is museum's extensive collection

em bers of Napol eon ~s

is home
Alldrell

to more

than 50,000 garments

Books oj interest

farn ily is notable for the beauty and di versiry of the lace used to decorate them,
Lsab el l « Ca iu p og n o! Fab tct ti

the late eighteenth Nidi 01

to the present.

14
Necessi ties

30

THE LACE KNITTING

The bee-knitting coast, began when
J"\I a /I (y
BIOS

OF HAAPSALU
on the Baltic with tourists. mud baths became popular

tradition

of the resort town of Haapsal u, Estonia,

the towns restorative

56

A COLLECTION
The author collection

OF KNITTED

LACE EDGINGS
from her

Needlework supplies

presents some of the knitted lace edgings of more than a hun dred, Wiseman

63
Calendar

32 34

No uci e lvI.

UpcOIniug events Hilton Lace Edging

M. Wiseman's book COLUMNS

Knit

an Estonian

Lace Scarf
for this scarf came from triangular knitted lace

Nancy Bush's inspiration

57

On th e Web: Knit for Pillowcases

Knit this delicate

shawls that she saw in Haapsalu,

edging from Nancie

Make
designed

a Lace Patchwork
and stitched by Elizabeth

Jewelry

Roll
roll, Ambrose.

Lacefro 11'1 tile Auic: A IIktorlan NClteboOR of Kuitled Lace Patterns.

Pieced bits of old lace over a silk lining make up this striking jewelry

M. KU1"eUaand Debbie

36
ON THE COVER
NANCIE

NORMANDY
Lace patchwork
i

LACE: Preserving
is a technique « of combining

Memories
century.

in Patchwork
textiles

piece> of old lace into beautiful

that had its heyday early in the twentieth

61'
.

58

IS
Tapestry

Tat a GardenMary H. McCarthy

Trellis

Doily

chose roses and fleurettes for tills lacy doily.

The new and noteworthy

FREE~FORM

TATTING
introduce this creative method of tauing. Shay Pendray's

18
Trimmings

Jules IDiot and Anne Rock

M.

WISEMAN'S PAGE 57.

KNITIED

LACE EDGING.

' 40

El

abe

th

.IVi.

Kurel

THE STUDY GUILD

COLLECTION

OF THE EMBROIDERERS'
that are available

62
.

A LACE AFTERNOON
photograph showing her wearing

DRESS

WITH A STORY
dress and a

A sCH!'Il'lingq/pattems, charts, and inBltl./C.tiol1s-BohenJian Lace

. Winifi:ed Walker Lovejoy's rum-of-the-rwentieth-centnry of the Costume Instituteat New York's Metropolitan

the dress are now in the collection Museum of An.

OF AMERICA
with lace inserts is one of more than 800 objects of the Embroiderers' Guild of America.

72
Findings

_Asuperb tablecloth for study by members

AIW

De /) IlI'n h P II11 i 1111/

Blalock

Preserving the legacy oj needlewore byfinding ways to remake and reuse mnv, old, orfound objea__

IEeE ORK.
Volume XIII
FE ATUR

4.0
44 46

PAPER-TEMPLATE
Two examples the intricacy Aimee of hexagonal

PIECING
paper-pieced technique.

TN EARLY-

NINETEENTH-CENTURY
of this still-popular

AMERICA
patchwork quilts illustrate

E. Newell

Number
ES

5 I PR.O]ECTS CLOTHING:
not at

QUILTING
A treasured the importance

MEMORIES
illustrates of creative family time.

quilt made by the author and her mother

M agg ie C II r I" c r

19

FASHIONABLE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY A Quilted Gown

This beautifully DeVVI·ah designed andexecuted court or for state occasions,
Pililflllll

THE

QUILT THAT WALKED TO GOLDEN

Ii:OHl the book of the same title, we meet Mary Jane
Oil

In this excerpt Colorado Sandra

VOLUME XIn

NUM.BEK 5 2005

gown most likely was worn at home,

Paulson Burgess as she is embarking

in 1864. Dallas wi.!11 Na n e u e

her journey

from Ohio

to

September/October DEPARTMENTS

as one might expect.

51:11101'11/.<

20

Make Kaffe Fassett's Jockey'S Cap Baby Quilt

All of the quil ts in Kqffe Fassett's Museum Quilts (Sep rernber ZOOS) were inspired
by quilts in the colleen Kaf]«
011

48

A One-Room Country School in Applique, . Embroidery, and Crochet: LAURA NEHRING'S

SCHOOLYARD
The author's attended

.5
Notions

of the Vic toria and Albert M useurn in London.

LIH)'

QUILT
re-created the one-room school she

Editor's leiter By Post Letters fiwl'I readers 8

Book Marks

grandmother

Fa s s et.t w it h Ll z:a Pr io r

in rural Iowa i11 th e early 19005.

24
.

AN UNFINISHED
author Crind
011

QUILT TELLS ITS STORY

Tumbling Blocks quilt top at all. antique of the quilter, fair led the quest for the identity

No n cv Nehring

• The purchase of a paper-pieced

a years-long
IVII/i1lllls

50

Make a Reverse-Applrqu
introduces the technique

e Bag

Karin Messier's colorful bag with a stylized lizard vividly

of reverse applique.

Crud

Books oj interest
12

28

Applique and Machine-Quilt

This table runner with it, distinctive and Karla Menanghs Karla NJe"
11 ugll

a Table Runner
is adapted from Barkley's

woodpeckers

52 53
.

MAlA'S
and finished

MOTHER

GOOSE

QUILT
was born birthday.

Necessities

. The author started making

this quilt before her daughter

Needlework supplies

Birds; one offive quilt projects in a new pattern book from Barbara Brackman
Sunflower Pattern Co-operative.

it in time for Maia's twenty-first

64
Calendar

Cli er y l Reed

30 34
.

THE ANNTVE.FtSAR.Y
This patriotic

QULLT
quilt incorporates

Upcoming events

INVESTtGATENG
The author

AN ALBUM

SIGNATURE

QUILT
who

rwenty~Eifth-wedding-anniversary

needs your help in researching

the stories of the thirty women

family photographs.
Ai
ni

signed her album signarure quilt.

SIISIIII

COLUMNS

ee E.

Newell

Wi l d c m u t lt

33

On the Web: Make a Quilted

Susan Wildel11uth shows you how

Journal

Cover
cover.

to personalize

YOlir own journal

54

14 LORIE
a life with a special quilt. Tapestry and honoring

REMEMBERING
Commemorating /vIliry P<lUlyko

Th« new and noteworthy

Bush

MY LIFE IN FEATHERSTITCHING
After decades of use, a quil t was discs rded but only after rh e author the memories Barhora
lIn/Oil

72
Quilt
quilt using tufting, satin and

had recorded

that if evoked.

56

Make a Candlewick
white-on-whire candlewick

Designer Janet Haigh shows how easy it is to create a classic stem stitches, and French knots.

Preserving the legacy cif needlework byjinding ways to remake and reuse neu1 old, orfound objects

Findings

36
ON THE COVIR
AN ALBUM 1933. SIGNATURE QUILT CIRCA OF CATHERINE COLLECTlON NOLL UTWINOW.

1NSPIR..ATION
CRAZY
author's Joyce

FROM A

MISSOURI
Missouri,

DEUTSCHHEIM
fOT

QUILT
in 1905 is the inspiration
the into crazy-quilting.

A crazy quilt made in Hermann, own journey St a r r )OIIiISOII

59

CARING
Ensuring Alldi

FOR MODERN

QUILTS
to come.

that today's quilts will be enjoyed for generations

Mi l a ni Rey n ol d s

ON THE WEB
SEE PAGES
33 AND 39 FOR INFORMATION ON OBTAINING INSTRUCTIONS FOR THESE BONUS PROJEcrS VISITING WEBSITE BY OUR BY MAIL.

PAGE 30.

39

On the Web: Make a Crazy-Quilt

Start your own crazy quilt using Kathleen

Block
instructions.

62

Knit

::1

Quilted-Check
necessity.

Pattern
library

Potholder
[0

Nancy Bush searched

her pattern

find this quiltlike

Bennett's

pattern for a kitchen

os

Volume XIII
FEAT

IEeE
Number 6
ES UH. IPRO]E

50

Knit a Qiviut Lace Headband

Donna Druchunas designed this warm headband as a starter project for new lace knitters, using qiviut, the featherweight undercoat of the musk ox. She also includes information on Alaska's Oorningmak Musk OK Producers' Co-operative knitters, who specialize in making lace-knitted qiviut scarves and caps.

CTS

52
Case

Crochet

a Pinwheel

Beret

This oversize beret is fun and easy ro crochet. The designer, Cynthia Preston, offers some historical context for the versatile head covering as well.

18

Needlework

Tools: Make a Bon Voyage Mending

This case, created by Liz Knudsen and Ann Pettit and sized for travel, hold,

22

essential needlework tools.

NEEDLEWORK

. A Thimble Other Tools

Kay

Compendiums, A Fish Sewing Kit, and a Thimble Case, Miniature Sewing Set and
TOOLS:

54

THAT SKILLS AND TRADITIONS

MAY ENDURE
to

VOLUME XIII

NUMBER 6 2005

For more than four generations, members of the au thor's [1mily have passed their knitting and needlework skills and knowledge down succeeding generations.
Andrea Nichol

November/December
D.EPAR.TM.ENTS

5 and Sew a Tooth Fairy Pillow

Notions Edilor's letter

Four authors take a look at a variety of needlework tools from different places and rimes.
SIIIIi~all,

D'eb

t ai:

Pulii

in,

St

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eu

Belll,

Lo

en

Mc

In

vre

58
60

Embroider

26
32.
-

Srumpwork and shadow work highlight the delicate stitchery of Martha Demore's whimsical project.

EARLY~NINETEENTH-CENTURY SAMPLERS FROM BALTIMORE

AFRICAN SCHOOLS

AMERICAN

7
By Post

Signed and. dated samplers illustrate the level of expertise reached iJl pre-Civil War Baltimore schools for African Americans.
G 10 I" i a Sea
til

Make a Sweetheart Purse with. Crazy-Quilt Stitches

Help a child practice embroidery stitches while

Leffel'S fro III, readers

9
Book Marks

a II A I Jeri

Books

cf interes!
12

GAR. MENTS. FROM DR. EARLY LIFE

An early-ninereenrh-century
Liu d a Mo o re

NORTON

STRANGE

TOWNSHEND'S

making Sharon Mann's sweet purse.

Necessities

smock and 11ighrshirr,.both marked in cross-stitch by

Townshend's mother, are rwo of the family's numerous surviving textiles.

62

34
36 40
ONE OF FIVE COPIES OF NEEDLEWORK TOOL5ANO ACCESSORIES! SEE PAGE 23.

Embroider

a Heart

Motif for a Book Bag

On the Web Embroider a Snutki Doily

Peta McMillan explains the technique of snutk», which originated in Poland, and provides step-by-step instructions for creating a delicate lacy doily.

Needlework supplies 65
Calendar

UpcoinilJg events

A motifon a book bag that belonged to Norton Strange Townshend's daughter, Harriet, was Linda Moore's inspiration for this small bag.

COLUMNS

Knit Winter

Dolls

Nancy Bush's two wee dolls dressed in Scandinavian-inspired sweaters will delight any child lucky enough to receive them.

14
Tapestry The new and noteworthy

Just for Kids to Make: Old-Fashioned

Toys

Tat a Winter

Star

Any child aged ten or older will enjoy making Kristin Nicholas's embroidered and stuffed cat or dog for him- or herself or to give as a gift.

Wrirten instructions and a chart guide you through this project designed by Susanne Schwenke and tatted by Trish Fallbion.

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Shay Pendray's Trimmings A sa/npling of paftems, charts, and ins truaio IIS- Tassels

44
22

CLARA HALUSKA FODOR'S .. ApPLIQUED, EMBROIDERED,

America's fifty states.
Jell/lifer

WALL HANGINGS: AND QUILTED

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ON THE WEB
SEE PAGE 62 FOR )NFORMATION ON OBTAINING INSTRUCTIONS FOR lWO BONUS PRO][CTS AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE. OR BY MAIL.

Self-taught needleworker Clan Haluska Fodor created a wall hanging for each of
C
Core

Findings Presenting the legacy if needlework bY.finding ways to remake and reuse /leu!, old) Of' fou tid objects

ON THECOVt:.R NANCY BUSH'S KNITTED WINTER DOLLS. PAGE 36.

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Embroider
sprig of holly.

Winter

Holly for a Holiday

Card

Connie McEvoy offers complete instructions for stitching her delicate