The Stitch Bank now has 275 types of embroidery stitches known across the globe, thanks to the recent addition of 25, reports the Stitch Bank’s manager, the Royal School of Needlework, a 150-year-old ...
It started with “Red Comet,” an 1,118-page biography of Sylvia Plath, undertaken with far-flung friends during the pandemic ...
Discover 11 women-led Southern businesses offering unique gifts, from skincare to home decor, candles, jewelry, barware, and ...
Alexandria resident Ellen Meyer has been keeping customers “In Stitches” at her specialty needlepoint store for 20 years. The owner celebrated her shop’s anniversary on Sept. 5, with grilled hot dogs, ...
It may be a "grandma hobby," but needlepoint is pulling in a new generation of crafters — and overflowing local shops — thanks in large part to social media and a desire for community in a ...
Most people I know want to mount their TV to a wall but are too nervous to try. They worry about drilling into drywall, choosing the wrong height or — worst of all — having the whole thing come ...
The Southern Stitch Needlepoint store is located on Manning Place. They sell many different patterns to choose from, most hand-painted by artists. (Mary Helene Hall / Bham Now) Calling all crafters!
“Are you a stitcher or a knitter?” This is one of the first questions Dolores Dempsey asks visitors to the Mountmellick Embroidery and Heritage Museum. As the voluntary curator of this small museum in ...
Each year, two million visitors walk or roll from the entrance of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, in South Dakota, to the Avenue of Flags, to peer up at the 60-foot visages of George Washington, ...
Every summer, thousands of people gather on the slopes of Mount Fuji and climb skyward to meet the constellations. Sculpted by millennia of eruptions into graceful symmetry, its power is easily ...
Everyone needs a way to keep their pants up, but men in a certain preppy subset—including boat-shoe-wearing frat bros and their ilk, as well as the country-club members they age into—have found a way ...