1. Knitting
   Hemming
2. Hand embroidery
   Crocheting

Hand embroidery has been around for centuries. In addition to thread or yarn, other materials, including gold, pearls or beads, may be sewn onto the fabric, using many different stitches.

1. gum
   wax
2. sugar
   Coke

When quilting, thread is often pulled through wax or beeswax to help it glide through all the rough layers of fabric. It's always important to use the right weight of thread. Also, remember that thread can age, so don't sew important projects with old thread that could break.

1. Quillweave
   Quillbraids
2. Quillwork
   Bead-y eyes

Porcupine quillwork is uniquely North American. Porcupine quills were often found as decoration on rawhide and tanned hides, until beading became more popular.

1. Needle felting
   Needle poking
2. Needling
   Needle knitting

Needle felting uses a needle to pull and tangle wool yarn, to form various three-dimensional objects and embellishments. This technique is used by fiber artists worldwide. Needle felting is also called dry felting.

1. Lace point
   Petite pastries
2. Petite four
   Petit point

The use of a frame is a hallmark of sewing the fine canvases in petit point needlework. This technique, similar to needlepoint, is used to create cushions, carpets and more.

1. Tent stitch
   Whip stitch
2. Open weave
   Round stitch

There are dozens of needlepoint stitches, but the tent stitch is the most common. Straight stitches are used for design elements and decorative finishes.

1. Needle punching
   Dagger needle
2. Embossing
   Loose embroidery

For needle punching, you need a frame with fabric stretched tightly over it, to enable the needle to punch through. The needle's size determines the width of the stitch.

1. Batting
   Ironing
2. Quilting
   Foaming

You may have heard of quilting and not realized it was needlework. Quilting usually involves two pieces of fabric sewn around a middle piece, which can be batting or foam. The stitching that joins these layers together is usually in a decorative pattern.

1. Doily
   Shuttle
2. Dolly
   Sifter

Tatting originated with fishermen, crafting their nets. Tatting is a method of creating delicate, lacy designs.

1. Kneading
   Kiting
2. Knotting
   Knitting

Knitting is a form of needlework. Depending on the loops produced on the needles and in what manner they are transferred, different stitches are created.

1. Cross stitch
   Crossfit
2. Cosset
   Knitting

In Eastern Europe, as folk art flourished, cross stitching was used to decorate and embellish household items. Cross stitching was also used in samplers.

1. Unicorn and dove
   Blue Bayou
2. The Bayeux Tapestry
   Zwiegart Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry depicted the invasion of England by the Normans in 1066. Despite its name, it is not actually a tapestry, but rather it is embroidered, using stem stitching and laid-and-couched stitching.

1. Squid ink
   Black silk
2. Crows
   Walnut ink

Under the influence of the Islamic civilization of the Moors, Spain developed blackwork, with the black color of thread coming from silk. However, blackwork was sometimes done in green or other darker hues. Blackwork was always done on white fabric.

1. Cheese plate
   geometric patterns
2. Primer
   Record of favorite stitches

Although not intended for display, the sampler would be a record of a person's ability in favorite stitches and patterns, at a time when there were no pattern books. Samplers were sometimes kept rolled in a drawer or a trunk as family assets, or they were proudly dispayed. Samplers often included the alphabet and ornamental items.

1. Steam engine
   Paper boy
2. Running water
   Printed pattern books

Printed pattern books distributed designs to more customers and boosted the popularity of cross stitch and other needlework, starting in the sixteenth century. Printed lace patterns were popular as well.

1. Jane Bostocke
   Jane Curtain
2. Jeff Goldblum
   Anne Boleyn

Jane Bostocke was an English girl who sewed animals, plants, herbs and an alphabet motif in the oldest surviving sampler. Some evidence points to her having had an early pattern book.

1. Tatting
   Crochet
2. Crewel
   Cross stitch

Crewel embroidery is worked in wool, although today some people use the term more loosely. Crewel embroidery incorporates an endless variety of stitches and is usually done with thicker wool thread or yarn.

1. Purple Rain
   Crazy days
2. Crazy quilt
   Diamond quilt

People fell in love with crazy quilts at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. Silks, satins and velvets give an opulent Victorian feel to these quilts, with herringbone, blanket stitch and lazy daisy stitching. Fabric pieces were irregular, not meticulously measured.

1. Unilever
   Warm cloth
2. Onesie
   Whole-cloth

Traditionally, quilts are pieced, meaning they are made of many different pieces of fabric, sometimes all different sizes. Whole-cloth quilts, on the other hand, are made with one piece of fabric and the texture is created with beautiful and intricate stitches.

1. A racing-stripe afghan
   A car seat cover
2. Saluki
   An afghan made of crocheted strips.

A mile-a-minute afghan is made by joining together different crocheted strips, so called because it's quick and easy to make. Such afghans are a great way to use extra yarn from past projects.

1. An afghan made in one solid piece
   An afghan made from squares joined together
2. An afghan made by a group of friends
   An afghan made from at least five coordinating colors

A Join-as-you-go afghan is made by crocheting individual squares, then sewing them together. Afghans make good seasonal gifts, because they add warmth for a person or to a room's decor.

1. Brick stitch
   Loom stitch
2. Back stitch
   Straight stitch

A Native American beading technique, stacking 4-5 beads, one atop another, is called the brick stitch or Cheyenne stitch. Similar techniques are used in Guatemalan, African, Middle Eastern and South American designs.

1. Kim Kardashian
   Taylor Swift
2. Katy Perry
   Kylie Kardashian

The MTV documentary "Nine Days and Nine Nights of Ed Sheeran" aired in 2014. It revealed that "TayTay" herself made a drake-themed needlepoint for Sheeran as a sign of their friendship. That's drake the animal, we hope, not the singer.

1. Mary, Queen of Scots
   Elizabeth I of England
2. Marie Antoinette
   Princess Grace

Given for needlepoint completed entirely in tent stitch with no embellishments, the Princess Grace Award was established by the American Needlepoint Guild to honor a lover of the needlework form, Princess Grace.

1. Hopscotch squares
   Times squares
2. Crazy squares
   Granny squares

Although there is no limit to the number of pieces or size of a granny square, many crocheters will make multiple small motifs (squares) and piece them together to create a variety of items, such as purses, household textiles, or even clothing. Granny square clothing was a trend in the seventies!

1. Applique
   Alliance
2. Risque
   Appliance

When a decorative, often elaborately shaped fabric piece is sewn onto a larger background piece, it's called an applique. It is a technique used often in textiles, but the same concept can be seen in other types of creative arts, like pottery. It originates from the Latin term "applicare," which means "to apply."

1. Tom Brady
   Peyton Manning
2. Michael Jordon
   Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier

"Rosey Grier's Needlepoint for Men" was released by player Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier. The book was chock full of samples and techniques that he personally sewed by hand. Grier is also famous for bravery during the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. Although unable to prevent the killing, Grier helped to subdue the shooter, Sirhan Sirhan.

1. Ms. Pac-Man
   Inky
2. Pac-Man
   Pinky

"M*A*S*H" star Loretta Swit has a book with a needlepoint design of the yellow one herself, Ms. Pac-Man. The book is "A Needlepoint Scrapbook," first published in 1986 when Pac-Man was at the height of arcade magic.

1. Whip stitch
   Mosaic stitch
2. Morrey stitch
   Brick stitch

The mosaic stitch is made up of three stitches - two short tent stitches flanking one long one. This diagonal design is distinctive and elegant.

1. Loom
   Rack
2. Frame
   Spinnet

The frame a cloth is woven on is the loom. Warp threads are held under tension while the weft threads are interwoven.

1. Just cute
   Smells good
2. For smaller pins
   Full of emery

That cute little strawberry has a very acute function - it is filled with sand or loose emery and will sharpen the pins when you use it. The abrasive materials also keep the pins smooth and able to slide easily into cloth so they don't snag or ruin your fabric.

1. A falling knight
   An Olympic sport
2. An sneer
   The dimples on a thimble

When you see those dimpled indents on a thimble, that is knurling. Before modern machining, such dimples were added by hand! They provide a grip to prevent the needle from sliding. Thimbles were once considered valuable possessions for young girls and part of their dowry.

1. Shetland sheep
   Shetland ponies
2. Shetland goats
   Shetland plants

Shetland wool comes exclusively from Shetland sheep on the Shetland Islands. True Shetland wool now carries Protected Geographical Status - it's the only non-food product to be so regulated.

1. Thimble maker
   Thimble sewer
2. Thimble knurling
   Thimble museum

The Fngerhutverein is a museum especially made for the 400 members of the Thimble Society that meets every May. Thimble shows, collections, competitions and just passion of the little humble "finger hut" are displayed with love in Germany.

1. Teachers teaching sewing
   Teaching on a thimble
2. Knocking a student in the head with a thimble
   Thumb wars between students with thimbles

Victorian teachers started the practice of knocking students in the head with a thimble-covered finger when they were disobedient. Most of the thimbles were made of iron, so that could be quite a knock to the head! Supposedly this helped students pay attention, rather than risk more thimble-knocking. Such a practice wouldn't be tolerated today, of course.