Piecework is almost the opposite of the last magazine I told you about, Family Handyman.  I love Family Handyman because it makes me want to do all the projects in it, and they're entirely within my reach.  Piecework is a magazine I love to read, and I'll probably never do a project from it as long as I live.  I mean, I sometimes sort of mean to, but you know how that goes.  (It isn't even that I don't have the skills, although if you ask me there is way too much knitting and not enough everything-else, but I think that in general about the craft world.  Now, stumpwork, that I want to see more of.) 

Piecework is a magazine about historic fiber arts, from crochet to quilting to crewelwork to felting and everything in between.  Each magazine generally has a theme (the current one is miniatures) and articles include profiles of people working in that area, projects you yourself can do based on historical pieces, in-depth looks at specific pieces and scholarly articles about ethnic and historical textiles.  There's also a lot of information on museum exhibits and related activities in historical and heritage textiles.

One of my favorite things about Piecework is the articles on fiber arts from other cultural traditions.  I've read fantastic articles about Russian lace, Finnish knitting and costume design from Benin.  They're well-written, interesting and often very scholarly, but unlike an academic historic textiles journal there's often a project where you can learn some of the techniques documented in the article! 

Piecework is a bi-monthly magazine that you can find here in Periodicals at Main!  Maybe you'll do better than I have at actually creating some of these lovely pieces!