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Volume XX Number 5

4 PIECEWORKM P: E N AA 202 P CThe results are in! The winners of our 202 contest are featured.

11 L H L by Karen Brock 13 Titas KaleidoscopeBedspread to Crochet by Abbi ByrdLaura Esquivels Like Water for Chocolateunfolds on the modest La Garza ranch innorthern Mexico against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and in the family kitchen.

15 L T P by Marilyn SerrainoLa Tela di Penelope is Italian for the fabric of Penelope, Penelope being the wife of Odysseus,

hero of the Greek epic The Odyssey.

20 L, N, H B T 22 A Camel to Embroider in Bayeux Stitch by Mary Polityka BushRarely in novels is needlework almost a character in its own right or as crucial to the plot as it isin Sarah Bowers The Needle in the Blood.

26 H N by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell 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 andexile and by their own personal encounters with migrs.

34 T G Y B C 36 Miss Terwilligers Skir tto Knit by Joanna Johnson

Among the chapters in Robert McCloskeys childrens book Homer Priceis Mystery Yarn.

39 N R Bby Kathy Augustine

Ertle and Lura Stonebreaker were passionate button collectors.

44 B B: A A F H M by Janice Horton

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

48 V S N H JE 50 A Victorian Short Purse to Crochet by Marika SimonIn Victorian England, needlework, like many other facets of daily life, had a clear social hierarchy.

53 H THEFLOWERINGTHORNby Ileana Grams-Moog 55 The Lesley Jacket to Knit by Anna-Liza ArmfieldKnitting plays a small but important role in Margery Sharps 933 novel

The Flowering Thorn.59 S M by Mary McGivern

A sampler worked in 807 inspired this Elizabethan sonnet.

60 A Bachelors Tea Cozy to Knit by Laurie Sundstrom

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ONTHECOVER

ABBIBYRDSTITAS

KALEIDOSCOPEBEDSPREADTOCROCHET, page 13

Photograph by Joe Coca.

NEEDLEWORKHIERARCHIESINJANEEYRE, page 48

MISSTERWILLIGERSSKIRT,page 36

PINCUSHIONCONTESTWINNERS, page 4

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Letter from the editor62 Calendar Upcoming events

64 Abbreviations andTechniques

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