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, ...

Continuing a more than 200-year tradition, the Busy Workers Society of Central Moravian Church has come up with a fitting way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Old Chapel. A needlework kit of ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When the Royal School of Needlework opened its first studio above a bonnet shop in London’s Sloane Street in 1872, ...

A few potholders, some Christmas ornaments, a doll or two -- these are sewing projects I often take on as the holidays near. As I add the rickrack trim to an ornament or embroider the sweet smile on a ...

Parker Posey (a longtime needlepointer) on everything a beginner needs to know, from the eyeglass-case kits that quickly made Cameron Diaz capable to the 1973 pattern book written by an NFL legend.