“Peter held a little bit of magic in his hands: a completed sweater, warm and soft, but most importantly, a reminder of his late wife. She had begun the sweater for him in 2011 but passed away in 2013 before she could complete the project. Beate, his daughter, safeguarded the partially finished garment for years,…
Tag: Craft
Piecework Magazine – Family Textiles Inspired by Maine Lakes
Lakes and ponds define my family’s best memories. My father passed his childhood summers on Maine’s Damariscotta Lake, and we still spend as many weekends as possible on Maine shorelines. Creating textiles and garments intertwines memories with the yarn itself, causing bursts of remembrance whenever I see, touch, or wear my projects. After a summer…
Piecework – Mid-Century Argyles
More than 65 years ago, my grandmother sat in her room at Colby College, a small liberal-arts school tucked into the middle of Maine. Curling her feet beneath a wide skirt, Kathy used the light from a nearby window to wind yarn for a special project, its browns and tans matching the bricks of her…
E. Zambello Writing and Art 