Needlework collectively refers to craft disciplines that utilize needles to create finished projects. Needlework encompasses sewing, knitting and cross stitch. In addition, needlework includes ...

In 2012, when your young daughter brings home her school artwork, it will most probably find pride of place on the refrigerator behind a magnet commemorating your trip to Disney World. Eventually it ...

The museum and visitors center, which opens Sept. 22, tells the life story of Mother Seton through an immersive experience, examining her impact as the first native-born American to be canonized. The ...

A few centuries ago, kids in classrooms did needlework samplers. They’d stitch their ways through linen stretched tight in wooden hoops as part of this rather slow & demanding hobby. It also taught ...

After six months held by the Nazis in a prisoner of war camp, Major Alexis Casdagli was handed a piece of canvas by a fellow inmate. Pinching red and blue thread from a disintegrating pullover ...

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 ...