There’s something incredibly relaxing about keeping your hands engaged in an activity while your mind has time to relax and decompress from the stressors of the day. Activities like knitting, ...

'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, ...

Knitting, crochet, embroidery and sewing. Skills that were once reserved for grey grandmas. These were seen by some as “old lady hobbies.” But those days are long gone. Needlework isn’t only popular ...

To start with, you need to gather all the necessary materials: embroidery thread in vibrant colors, a needle, and an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...