1. Introduction: Stitching the SelfJohanna Amos (Queen's University) and Lisa Binkley (Queen's University) Part I: Emerging Identity: Reconsidering the Narratives of the Needle 2. The Identity of an Embroidering Woman: The Needle Arts in Brussels, Belgium, 1850-1914Wendy Wiertz (University of Leuven) 3. 'Experiments in silk and gold work afterwards to bloom': The Embroidering of Jane Burden Morris Johanna Amos (Queen's University) 4. 'From Prison To Citizenship', 1910: The Making and Display of a Suffragist BannerJanice Helland (Queen's University) 5. 'Knitting is the saving of life: Adrian has taken to it too': Gender, Needlework, and the Bloomsbury GroupJoseph McBrinn (Ulster University) Part II: Forging Identity: Expressing Ideology, Crafting Community 6. Whig's Defeat : Stitching Settler Culture, Politics, and Identity Lisa Binkley (Queen's University) 7. Our Lady of the Snows: Settlement, Empire and 'the Children of Canada' in the Needlework of Mary Seton WattsElaine Cheasley Paterson (Concordia University) 8.

Knitting Rebellion: Elizabeth Zimmermann and the Cultural Production of Identity in Post-World War II North American Knitting M. Lilly Marsh (Purdue University) Part III: Embracing Identity: Articulating Self-awareness through Needlework 9. 'Je me declare Dieu-Mère, Femme Créateur': Johanna Wintsch's Needlework at the Swiss Psychiatric Asylums Burghölzli and Rheinau, 1922-1925Sabine Wieber (University of Glasgow) 10. Interstitial Stitches: The Work of Anna Torma Anne Koval (Mount Allison University) 11. Suturing My Soul: In Pursuit of the Broderie de Bayeux Janet Catherine Berlo (University of Rochester).