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EVELINA GRIMES AND HER APRON STYLE SHOWS
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 Gilbertson

A TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY APRON TRUNK SHOW
The author’s apron trunk show grew from a collection of aprons purchased for their vintage fabrics.
Diane Macleod Shink

APRONS OF GUATEMALA
Although when and why the custom of wearing aprons in public began is unknown, Mayan women have made the apron their own.
Deborah Dwyer

AN EMBROIDERED APRON FOR A CHILD
A treasured dishtowel’s dancing cookware became the motif for this colorful child’s apron.
Mary Polityka Bush

LEARNING CROSS-STITCH ON GINGHAM APRONS
The author learned how to cross-stitch by stitching on gingham aprons.
Shirley Hansen

APRONS: AN OVERVIEW
Many of today’s at-home aprons are fashion accessories rather than fashion protectors.
Keriann Gore

MAKE YOUR OWN APRON
Here are fabrics, patterns, and embellishments perfect for aprons.

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.

Weldon’s: Knit Gentleman’s Socks
Nancy Bush adapted this sock design, featured in her new book from Interweave Press, from a pattern in Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 10.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF WELDON'S PRACTICAL NEEDLEWORK
Nancy Bush

Weldon’s: Knit Classic Cable Mittens
Deborah Pulliam adapted the instructions for Cuffs, Knitted in Cable Twist from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 8, to make these mittens.

SHANGHAI GIRL GETS ALL DRESSED UP
Using objects from her own collection, Beverley Jackson traces the history of and the in.uences on clothing worn in Shanghai.
Beverley Jackson

Couching Gold Threads
Among the objects in Beverley Jackson’s 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.

IRISH-STITCH POCKETBOOKS
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 .ame stitch.
Karen W. MacGregor

On the Web: Sew a Pocketbook
A pocketbook based on eighteenth-century examples makes a useful twenty-.rst-century case. Karen W. MacGregor offers instruction on how to construct your own.

BEAD-KNITTED WRIST WARMERS: Beauty and Warmth
Bead-knitted wrist warmers have a long tradition in northern Europe. In Norway, both men and women wore the wrist warmers with folk costumes.
Carol Huebscher Rhoades

Bead-Knit Wrist Warmers
Make your own wrist warmers using Carol Huebscher Rhoades’ instructions.

HATS ACROSS THE SEA: KALPAK, THE
TRADITIONAL HAT OF KYRGYZSTAN
This traditional man’s hat has varied little in thousands of years.
Mary Polityka Bush

On the Web: Embroider and Sew a Felt Hat
Follow Mary Polityka Bush’s instructions to make a stylish woman’s wool felt hat that was inspired by the traditional kalpak.

BARBARA J. HAMRICK’S LEGACY
Barbara J. Hamrick inherited an entire trunk .lled with family textiles. She has been documenting and preserving the objects.

HOME CARE FOR YOUR
HEIRLOOM TEXTILES
Follow these simple practices to preserve your heirloom textiles.
Linda Moore

On the Web: Crochet a Costume for the Queen of the Nile
Nicky Epstein’s project for a Barbie doll will delight all ages.

WEB PROJECTS

Crochet a Costume for the Queen of the Nile

Embroider and Sew a Felt Hat

Sew an Eighteenth-Century Pocketbook