Needlework, my most recent young adult book, is about a teenage survivor of abuse and domestic violence. I wrote the first draft in a month, and left it for over a year before coming back to it. I ...
Around the country, men and women in high-security prisons are picking up a needle and thread and learning how to sew. Why? "It enables them to be calm, productive, creative and to mentally and ...
JAMES CITY — Stitching enthusiasts in the Williamsburg area have a replacement store in the stitching world with opening of Liberty Hill Needleworks on Longhill Road. For more than 40 years, Lydia ...
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW followed up with Folk Art appraiser Allan Katz in to learn the astounding story of what happened to the Maria Koogle Schoolgirl Needlework, ca. 1817 since it appeared on ROADSHOW in ...
With her first book on stitchery, needlework instructor Erica Wilson revived a craft and helped invent a publishing category. Her 1962 hardcover book, “Crewel Embroidery,” both popularized the pursuit ...
Every third Monday of the month, a drop-in needlework circle meets at Evanston Public Library. Sally Barnum, the organizer of the circle, hopes more people will join this community. Barnum created the ...
Puleng Segalo receives funding from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. In June 2020, three months after South Africa entered the first of a series of hard lockdowns to slow ...