'Old-fashioned' and 'twee' have been hard-to-shake labels for fabric and textile crafts. Whether it’s because the likes of embroidery, knitting and quilting are associated with domesticity, a certain ...

Call this the home-ec decade — when knitting became cool, you had to know embroidery wouldn’t be far behind. True, you don’t read much yet about celebrities gathering for stitch-fests, but you might, ...

For the past 40 years, four women from one family have been participating in a range of vintage craft techniques known as 'fancy work' creating vibrant, awe-inspiring items to be sold in a church ...

During a slow afternoon in April 2020, when I was bored out of my wits, my mother pointed to a bag of vibrant threads lying on the sofa. As it turned out, that’s exactly what I needed! I’m grateful ...

You’ve seen her in the classic films of our youth and the fairy tale books of our childhood-that old woman in a rocking chair, bent over with age but sharp-tongued as ever, exchanging gossip or ...

'Old-fashioned' and 'twee' have been hard-to-shake labels for fabric and textile crafts. Whether it’s because the likes of embroidery, knitting and quilting are associated with domesticity, a certain ...