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Volume XX

Number 5

F eature s a nd P roje c t s
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P IECEWORK Magazine Presents: Excellence in Needle Arts


Awards 2012 Pincushion Contest
The results are in! The winners of our 2012 contest are featured.

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Like Handwork for Love by Karen Brock 13 Titas Kaleidoscope


Bedspread to Crochet by Abbi Byrd
Laura Esquivels Like Water for Chocolate unfolds on the modest La Garza ranch in
northern Mexico against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and in the family kitchen.

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La Tela di Penelope

by Mar ilyn Ser raino

La Tela di Penelope is Italian for the fabric of Penelope, Penelope being the wife of Odysseus,
hero of the Greek epic The Odyssey.

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Photograph by Joe Coca.

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by Kimberly Chr isman-Campbell

to Knit

by Joanna Johnson

Nursery Rhyme Buttons

by Kathy Augustine

Ertle and Lura Stonebreaker were passionate button collectors.

Braids into Brushstrokes: An Artist Finds Her Medium


by Janice Horton

NEEDLEWORK HIERARCHIES
IN JANE EYRE, page 48
MISS TERWILLIGERS SKIRT,
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Handwork in the migr Novel

29 A Fleur-de-Lis Needle Case to Embroider by Barbara Jackson


Authors were inspired both by the romantic narrative possibilities of the French Revolution and
exile and by their own personal encounters with migrs.
The Great Yarn Ball Contest 36 Miss Terwilligers Skirt
Among the chapters in Robert McCloskeys childrens book Homer Price is Mystery Yarn.

ON THE COVER
ABBI BYRDS TITAS
KALEIDOSCOPE BEDSPREAD
TO CROCHET, page 13

PINCUSHION CONTEST
WINNERS, page 4

Love, Needlework, and History in the Bayeux Tapestry

22 A Camel to Embroider in Bayeux Stitch by Mary Polityka Bush


Rarely in novels is needlework almost a character in its own right or as crucial to the plot as it is
in Sarah Bowers The Needle in the Blood.

Jessie Catherine Baker Kinsley created tapestries embellished with lines of poetry embroidered
below the braided scenes.

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Victorian Social and Needlecraft Hierarchies in Jane


Eyre 50 A Victorian Short Purse to Crochet by Mar ika Simon
In Victorian England, needlework, like many other facets of daily life, had a clear social hierarchy.

Departments/C OLUMNS
2 Notions

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Letter from the editor


62 Calendar

Upcoming events
64 Abbreviations and
Techniques

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Handwork in T HE F LOWERING T HORN

by Ileana Grams-Moog

55 The Lesley Jacket to Knit by Anna-Liza Armfield


Knitting plays a small but important role in Margery Sharps 1933 novel
The Flowering Thorn.

Sonnet for Marie

by Mary McGiver n

A sampler worked in 1807 inspired this Elizabethan sonnet.

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A Bachelors Tea Cozy to Knit

by Laur ie Sundstrom

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