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PieceWork, July/August 2009
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Indulge your wanderlust with this July/August 2009 Special Travel Issue of PieceWork! It’s filled with stories about various ports of call and exotic gifts, along with travel-friendly take-along projects for knitters and embroiderers. Feast your eyes on the exquisite ceremonial cloths from Norway with motifs that date to the Viking age; knit or cross-stitch the tree-of-life motif from one of the cloths using our color chart. Discover a charming early-nineteenth-century quilt and create a sunglasses case with one of the quilt’s floral motifs with our step-by-step embroidery and construction instructions. Plus: The winners of our 2009 brooch contest are featured! We think you’ll be amazed by these small (the grand-prize winner’s entry is only 7/16 by 1.5 by 1/16 inches [1.1 by 3.8 by 0.2 cm]) creations worked in a host of techniques, including needlepoint, knitting, crochet, quilting, bobbin lace, embroidery, and tatting, bead crochet.
PieceWork’s 2009 Brooch Contest. View the outstanding winners from PieceWork Magazine Presents the Excellence in Needle Arts Awards 2009 contest!
Exquisite Embroidered Symbolism: Norwegian Ceremonial Cloths (Mary B. Kelly). For centuries on important occasions, Norwegians displayed ceremonial cloths elaborately embroidered with Viking-era motifs.
Tree-of-Life and Bold Flower Mittens to Knit and a Tree-of-Life Motif to Cross-Stitch (Susan Kolstad). Inspired by Norwegian ceremonial cloths, Susan Kolstad incorporated motifs from the cloths in her knitted mittens. Use the tree-of-life chart to cross-stitch the motif.
A Transitional Work: An Early-Nineteenth-Century Embroidered Quilt by (Christina Inge). This exceptional pieced and embroidered quilt from New England displays elements of eighteenth and nineteenth-century styles of bedcovers.
A Sunglasses Case to Embroider with Motifs from a Nineteenth-Century Quilt (Christina Inge). The designer selected floral motifs from the early-nineteenth-century quilt for this oversize case worked on wool felt.
Gifts of the Sultan: The Fashion Influence of Tippoo-Saïb (Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell). The mission of the ambassadors dispatched by Tippoo-Saïb, sultan of Mysore, to France to meet with King Louis XVI ultimately was a diplomatic failure, but it would be remembered as a fashion phenomenon.
Take-Along Projects:
- Dee’s Diamond Scarf to Knit (Nancy Bush)
- A Pulled-Work Bookmark to Embroider (Mary Polityka Bush)
- Cashmere Wrist Warmers to Knit (Inna Voltchkova)
Try our three special projects designed with portability in mind for summer travels. Beginning lace knitters will find Dee’s Diamond Scarf within their capabilities. The finished bookmark can serve either as a place marker in your travel journal or as a gift for the hostess awaiting your arrival. The wrist warmers are fun to knit and will help to take off the chill.
Linen and Lace at Pebble Hill Plantation (Andi Reynolds). Started as a working farm in 1825, this southwest Georgia plantation acquired a trove of fine linen and lace through the efforts of its two twentieth-century owners.