PieceWork, July/August 2015 Digital Edition

PieceWork July/August 2015: Enjoy an issue of PieceWork celebrating cotton. Cotton’s history goes back at least 7,000 years. Greek historian Herodotus (circa 484 - 425 B.C.) wrote about trees in India that were “. . . growing wild, which produce a kind of wool better than sheep’s wool in beauty and quality. . . .” A fourteenth-century European traveler writing under the pseudonym of Sir John Mandeville started the myth surrounding “vegetable lamb”: “. . . there grew there [in India] a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the ends of the branches. . . .” Cotton has been a favorite of needleworkers for ages. For this summer issue of PieceWork, we’re celebrating this marvelous fiber! This issue includes an irresistible story by Katherine Durack that inspired the delicate Square and Border Pattern for Annie’s Tablecloth to Filet Crochet Pattern. Also, enjoy Mary Polityka Bush's A Handkerchief to Embroider in Shadow Work Pattern. The Counterpane Baby Blanket to K