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This document provides summaries of 6 articles from a publication about various needlework projects and techniques:
1) The first article discusses the 122 aprons made by Evelina Grimes and now in a museum collection.
2) The second article talks about growing a collection of vintage fabric aprons into an apron trunk show.
3) The third article explores the tradition of Mayan women in Guatemala wearing aprons in public.
4) The fourth article describes a child's apron made using a dishtowel as inspiration.
5) The fifth article discusses learning cross-stitch by stitching on gingham aprons.
6) The sixth article provides an overview of how many modern ap
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This document provides summaries of 6 articles from a publication about various needlework projects and techniques:
1) The first article discusses the 122 aprons made by Evelina Grimes and now in a museum collection.
2) The second article talks about growing a collection of vintage fabric aprons into an apron trunk show.
3) The third article explores the tradition of Mayan women in Guatemala wearing aprons in public.
4) The fourth article describes a child's apron made using a dishtowel as inspiration.
5) The fifth article discusses learning cross-stitch by stitching on gingham aprons.
6) The sixth article provides an overview of how many modern ap
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Volume XIV Number 1
F E A T U R E S / P R O J E C T S
1827
E VELINA G RIMES AND H ER A PRON S TYLE S HOWS
The 122 clever aprons made by Evelina Oppegard Grimes for her Apron Style Show are
now in the collection of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum.
Laurann Gilber tson
A T WENTY-F IRST-C ENTURY A PRON T RUNK S HOW
54
The authors apron trunk show grew from a collection of aprons purchased for their
vintage fabrics.
Diane Macleod Shink
A PRONS OF G UATEMALA
Although when and why the custom of wearing aprons in public began is unknown,
Mayan women have made the apron their own.
Deborah Dwyer
A N E MBROIDERED A PRON FOR A C HILD
A treasured dishtowels dancing cookware became the motif for this colorful childs apron.
Mary Polityka Bush
L EARNING C ROSS -S TITCH ON G INGHAM A PRONS
The author learned how to cross-stitch by stitching on gingham aprons.
Shirley Hansen
A PRONS : A N OVERVIEW
Many of todays at-home aprons are fashion accessories rather than fashion protectors.
Keriann Gore
M AKE YOUR OWN A PRON
34
Here are fabrics, patterns, and embellishments perfect for aprons.
2833
A METER SQUARE: Headscarves Trimmed with Needle Lace
Needle-lace motifs have trimmed the colorful square headscarves of women of the
eastern Mediterranean region for hundreds of years.
Margo Krager
Needle Lace
Gretchen Allgeier explains how to make needle-lace motifs.
3439
18
Weldons: Knit Gentlemans Socks
Nancy Bush adapted this sock design, featured in her new book from Interweave Press,
from a pattern in Weldons Practical Needlework, Volume 10.
A B RIEF H ISTORY OF
W ELDON S P RACTICAL N EEDLEWORK
ON THE COVER
1950S APRON WITH AN
EMBROIDERED MONOGRAM.
PAGE 18.
Photograph by Joe Coca.
The designers of the Weldons pattern books were prolific but completely anonymous.
Nancy Bush
Weldons: Knit Classic Cable Mittens
Deborah Pulliam adapted the instructions for Cuffs, Knitted in Cable Twist from
Weldons Practical Needlework, Volume 8, to make these mittens.
4043
S HANGHAI G IRL G ETS A LL D RESSED U P
Using objects from her own collection, Beverley Jackson traces the
history of and the influences on clothing worn in Shanghai.
Beverley Jackson
Couching Gold Threads
Among the objects in Beverley Jacksons collection of clothing and
accessories from Shanghai is a pair of shoes couched with gold thread.
Shay Pendray, a master of Japanese embroidery, offers details on how
to couch Japanese gold threads.
4447
I RISH -S TITCH P OCKETBOOKS
VOLUME XIV
Both men and women used pocketbooks to hold valuables in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; those made of fabric were most
commonly worked in Irish stitch, also known as bargello or flame stitch.
K a r e n W. M a c G r e g o r
A pocketbook based on eighteenth-century examples makes a useful
twenty-first-century case. Karen W. MacGregor offers instruction on
how to construct your own.
4853
ON THE WEB
Book Marks
Books of interest
12
Necessities
64
Calendar
5455
Upcoming events
H ATS ACROSS THE S EA : K ALPAK , THE
T RADITIONAL H AT OF K YRGYZSTAN
C O L U M N S
This traditional mans hat has varied little in thousands of years.
14
Mary Polityka Bush
Tapestry
On the Web: Embroider and Sew a Felt Hat
The new and noteworthy
Follow Mary Polityka Bushs instructions to make a stylish
womans wool felt hat that was inspired by the traditional kalpak.
72
Shay Pendrays Trimmings
5663
A sampling of patterns,
charts, and instructions
Embroidery on Net
B ARBARA J. H AMRICK S L EGACY
Barbara J. Hamrick inherited an entire trunk filled with family
textiles. She has been documenting and preserving the objects.
72
H OME C ARE FOR YOUR
H EIRLOOM T EXTILES
Nicky Epsteins project for a Barbie doll will delight all ages.
Needlework supplies
Make your own wrist warmers using Carol Huebscher
Rhoades instructions.
On the Web: Crochet a Costume
for the Queen of the Nile
Editors letter
10
Bead-Knit Wrist Warmers
64
Notions
Letters from readers
Bead-knitted wrist warmers have a long tradition in northern Europe.
In Norway, both men and women wore the wrist warmers with
folk costumes.
Linda Moore
D E P A R T M E N T S
By Post
B EAD -K NITTED W RIST WARMERS :
Beauty and Warmth
Follow these simple practices to preserve your heirloom textiles.
January/February 2006
On the Web: Sew a Pocketbook
Carol Huebscher Rhoades
NUMBER 1
Findings
SEE PAGES 45, 55,
AND 64 FOR
INFORMATION ON
OBTAINING
INSTRUCTIONS FOR
THREE BONUS
PROJECTS FROM OUR
WEBSITE OR BY MAIL.
Preserving the legacy of
needlework by finding ways to
remake and reuse new, old,
or found objectsSkirt
