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

Krista LeRay is a needlepoint content creator who founded an online needlepoint store from her New York apartment (Credit: Penny Linn Design) Beloved by European royals and aristocrats – and recently ...

Needlework, my most recent young adult book, is about a teenage survivor of abuse and domestic violence. I wrote the first draft in a month, and left it for over a year before coming back to it. I ...

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 ...

Around the country, men and women in high-security prisons are picking up a needle and thread and learning how to sew. Why? "It enables them to be calm, productive, creative and to mentally and ...

A Prisoner of War stitched up his German captors after they unwittingly displayed his coded needlework containing the message 'God Save the King' and 'F**k Hitler' in prison camps where he was held ...

The website for The Crafts Council is a good place to get ideas and information, as is Voluntary Arts which works to promote and increase participation in cultural activities across the UK and ...

American Indian porcupine-quill embroidery -- Indian bead needlework -- Indian applique, Alaskan fishskin needlework -- Early stump work, silk and wool needlepoint pictures -- Crewel embroidery in the ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When the Royal School of Needlework opened its first studio above a bonnet shop in London’s Sloane Street in 1872, ...

Wrought in silks and silvered threads over a cream silk ground, the fine needlework depicted a stylised formal garden viewed from above, with trees, pillars and flowers all bordered with decorative ...