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.
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Nancy Bush uses two heel types frequently in her ebook Vintage Socks to Knit: the French heel and the Dutch heel.
Eileen Lee wanted to see if she could knit two socks at once using her favorite method—the magic loop. She tried it and it works!
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.
Learn how versatile the running stitch can be, a stitch that dates back to the beginning of sewing itself.
Victorians transformed tea cozies from a necessity into fashion. Read about the unique forms they've taken over the years!
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!
Although tensioning the yarn through a pin or around the neck has been practiced since ancient times, many knitters are not familiar with the technique, which also entails holding and throwing the yarn in a different way.
See how a poster depicting traditional costumes creates inspiration.
Rediscover a tool used to create a tubular or flat fabric by repeatedly interlocking loops of yarn.
Whether you recognize the day in February, June, or September there is always time for lace!
A series of three knitted panels, using embroidery for details, are fiber windows onto landscapes important to the author and her family.
Niebling’s designs are not for the faint of heart or the impatient knitter. Some of his larger table covers contain as many as 300 rounds, with the outer rounds comprising hundreds of stitches, all to be worked in fine thread from pages of complex charts.