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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• FEATURES
  • Color Blending in Needlepoint(technique)
    by Lloyd Walton Blanks
  • Battenberg Lace
    by Jules, Kaethe Kliot
  • Making Swirly Skirts
    by Grace Callaway
  • Knitted Yarn Over
    by Shirley W. MacNulty
  • Irons, Boards and Presses
    by David Page Coffin
  • Dyes from Mushrooms
    by Miriam Rice
  • Gilding the Lily:
    Embroidery Stitches in Victorian Crazy Quilts
    by Miriam Rice
  • How Madame Grès Sculpts with Fabric
    by Arlene Cooper
  • Weaving in the Desert:
    How Bedouin women make a loom
    by Janet Doub Erickson
  • Making Sense of Interfacing
    by Margaret Deck Komives
  • Double Lives:
    Patsy Allen
    Nancy Guay
    Pat Kinsella
    by Joanne Mattera
  • Knitting-Machine Geometries:
    Short-row and Slip - ideal intarsia techniques
    by Susan Guagliumi
  • Converting Images into Sweaters
    by Rachel MacHenry
  • Back Cover:
    Hooking wild Horses
    by Marguerite Zorach
• DEPARTMENTS
  • Letters
  • TIPS:
    Hand-rolled hems
    by Tricia Klem
    Sweaters in the round without steeks
    by Carol Gordon
    Retrieving spilled beads
    by Letitia Harris
    Knitters need baggies!
    by Melissa Yoder
    How to splice yarn
    by Lois Albrecht
    Removing bloodstains
    by Mary Ann Hickey
    Machine-eased sleeve caps
    by Janet Earnhardt
    Buttons with bite
    by Cherie Owings
    Machine-stitched gift wrap
    by Emma Olmstead
    De-pilling Woolens
    by Beth Kabat
    Managing knitting patterns
    by Mrs. Robert Carlson
    Winding bobbins on the spinning wheel
    by Murial Waite
    Easy covered buttons
    by Amy T. Yanagi
  • QUESTIONS:
    Q: Skirts become culottes
    A: Rebecca Nebesar
    Q: Industrial sewing machines at home
    A: Claire Shaeffer
    Q: Custom-shaped sweaters
    A: Jean Dickinson
    Q: Stumpwork
    A: Sylvia Fishman
    Q: Enlarging patterns
    A: Colette Wolff
    Q: Washing cotton sweaters
    A: Laura Malis
    Q: Downproof cotton
    A: Mavra Simon
    Q: Building a loom
    A: Loom Construction by Hjert von Rosenstielm
  • NOTES:
    Quilting for world peace
    by Cathy Shufro
    Fashionable quilts
    by Colette Wolff
    To be not a brute, Rousseau made lace
    by L.R. Hedrick
    Ewe can't win this wrestling match
    by Patricia Byers
    Bit of rope turns cloth into dancer's costume
    by Leslie Grace
    International Textile Competition
    by Kyoto
    Lace and lectures
    by Betty Suter Feldman
    Quilt lovers take notice
    by American Quilter's Society Show
    Artwear '87
    by The Textile Council
  • Calendar
  • Books
  • Comments:
    Letting Knitting Happen
    by Joyce Edwards
  • Supplies