The art of storytelling through textiles, inviting readers to consider the many ways in which narrative can be expressed through

Chapter 1: Making Meaning
1. The Safe Space of Textiles
2. Stitching Overlooked Stories
3. Freddie Robins on Craft Kills
4. Binding Cloths: An Interview with Tamar Stone
5. Designing Your Own Narrative Textiles
6. Transcription Through Cloth: An Interview with Eleanor Hannan
7. Creativity Exercise: The Button Jar
8. You Don't Have to Stitch It
9. Little Tokens: An Interview with Maria Damon

Chapter 2: The Stories that We Wear
1. Dressing to Defy the Usual Story
2. Clothing in the Asylum
3. Altering What They Wore
4. Clothing as Cultural Vocabulary: Rosalind Wyatt
5. Stories to Rattle Your Bones: An Interview with Teresa Burrows
6. Confessional Couture: An Interview with Noel Paloma-Lovinski
7. Project: Close to the Heart by brifrischu

Chapter 3: Poetic Textiles
1. Surviving Through Stitch
2. The Poetry Blanket
3. The Troublesome Poetry Mittens
4. Sleeping with Poetry: An Interview with Kerry Larkin of Comma Workshop
5. Public Interventions with Poetry Bombing: An Interview with Agustina Woodgate
6. Project: Wear Your Words by Leanne Prain featuring 'Day' a poem by Laura Farina

Chapter 4: Textiles of Protest, Politics, and Power
1. Rugs of Resistance
2. Safe Passage: The Legend of the Underground Railway Quilts
3. Telling Stories under Dictatorship: The Chilean Arpillera
4. Imbleachments and Public Satire: An Interview with Diane Bush
5. Sweaters of Revolution: The Work of Ellen Lesperance
6. Prompt: Make Your Voice Heard
7. Telling Essential Stories through S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D., An interview with Climbing Poetree
8. Project: Craftivist Resistance Mask by Sarah Corbett

Chapter 5: The Fabric of Remembrance
1. Bereavement Quilts
2. An Overlooked History
3. Stitched Travel Diaries
4. Exploring Family Genealogy Through Stitching
5. Crocheting Joy: An Interview with Sayraphim Lothian
6. Prompt: Try Your Hand at Memoir
7. Story Quilts: An Interview with Marion Coleman
8. Project: I Love My City Tote bag by Lindsay Zier-Vogel

Chapter 6: Illustrative Storytelling
1. Embroidered Illustration
2. Button Blankets
3. Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
4. Prompt: Approach a Story through Imagery
5. Truth is Stranger than Fiction: An Interview with Freddie Robins
6. The Changing Story of the Tartan
7. Internal and External Geographies: An Interview with Bettina Matzkuhn

Chapter 7: Fictional Characters
1. Knit the City: Telling Stories with Soft Sculpture
2. Fiber & Fairytales: An Interview with Stephanie Dosen of Tiny Owl Knits
3. Superhero Stories: An Interview with Mark Newport
4. Prompt: Bring Fictional Characters into your Textiles
5. Knitting Nightmares: An Interview with Tracey Widdess
6. Project: The Amelia Mobile by Susan Kendal

Chapter 8: Humorous Textiles
1. Embroidering a Year of Unemployment: An Interview with Melissa A. Calderon
2. WooWork: An Interview with Howie Woo
3. Tips for Making Your Work Funny
4. Stitched Rejection: An Interview with Gina Dawson
5. Project: #DadKnowsBest by Iviva Olenick

Chapter 9: Storytelling with Textiles and New Technology
1. Open Source Embroidery
2. Phillip Stearn's Beautiful Faults
3. The Social Knitwork
4. @Embroidered Poems
5. Mixing Media: An Interview with Kristy Whitlock
6. Prompt: Think Outside the Sewing Box
7. Fuzzy Logic: An Interview with Carlyn Yandle
8. Project: "Hello World" Blinky Light Lilypad Arduino Patch by Emily Smith

Chapter 10: Community Storytelling Through Textiles
1. Names Project Aids Memorial Quilt
2. Circles of Stitching
3. Start a Stitching Circle
4. Putting A Community In Stitches
5. Creating An Urban Tapestry
6. Stitching for Our Oceans
7. Dyeing for Your Community
8. Community Building, One Bridge at a Time
9. Amanda Browder's Future Phenomena
10. Harnessing the Power of Textile Community: An Interview with Lee Bowser
11. Designing A Community Textile Project
12. Community Confessions: An Interview with Jessica Vellenga
13. Spinning Stories: Participatory Art with Robyn Love

Leanne Prain: Leanne Prain is a knitter and the author of Yarn Bombing: The Art of Knit & Crochet Graffiti (with Mandy Moore) and Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery. A professional graphic designer, Leanne holds degrees in creative writing, art history, and publishing. She lives and crafts in Vancouver, BC.