Vintage Fashion Meets Contemporary Style: Leg Warmers
If you’re of a certain age, leg warmers bring to mind brightly colored workout wear from the early 1980s.
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If you’re of a certain age, leg warmers bring to mind brightly colored workout wear from the early 1980s.
A crazy quilt is a wonderfully useful way to preserve and display family history. As the quilt itself warms each generation’s hands and feet, each scrap has a story that warms the heart.
Many textiles don’t survive the ravages of time, but artifacts found in Magdalena de Cao Viejo, Peru, piece together a story told in ancient stitches.
Journaling the year using embroidery.
Use the lace patterns in Weldon's Practical Knitter as a foundation for your own lace variations.
This border is useful for trimming underlinen, pinafores, and many other purposes.
With its vibrant, geometric designs, the huck towel is a colorful icon of mid-twentieth-century kitchens.
Julia Baratta discusses naturally colored cotton and the farmers who grow various plants to preserve the fiber.
Knit a sweet lace edging adapted from a vintage pattern.
Timeless, practical, and versatile, aprons transcend culture and fads.
Not only are needle books beautiful and functional, but their construction did not take a large amount of fabric or time.
Andrea Wong’s miniature Portuguese stocking, from the January/February 2017 issue of PieceWork, is based on socks in the classic style of those from Serra D’Ossa, Portugal.