Mary has been needlepointing since high school, but a visit to Needlepoint Inc. in San Francisco in the mid-1990’s revealed decorative stitches and diverse thread choices that captured her imagination, and sparked a new, even deeper love for the craft. She then had the good fortune of learning under the tutelage of Beverly Churchfield and the late Wendy Harwood at Aristeia in Brentwood (now in Santa Monica).
Creating whimsical designs and cultivating a crisp, clean style all her own became not only a passion, but also a refuge. After a 25+ year career in advertising and corporate marketing, Mary chose to focus her life’s second chapter on needlepoint. She created whimsicalstitch.com to share the joy she finds in every new needlepoint project, stitch technique, and even the threads.
–Gary and Christine
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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation Mary Legallet. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.–Gary and Christine
Great podcast. Netflix to watch:
Reign, House of cards, As always, your podcasts are so informative.
Glad you enjoyed the show and thanks for listening and really appreciate that you find them informative. I don’t know Reign. Will put it on the list.
Gary
Loved the podcast. Many of the shows you mentioned are on my to watch list. And through Amazon, subscribe to Acorn TV–Australian shows!
Gary and Christine: I feel so “connected” when listening to Fibertalk!!! It is nice to know there are so many of us participating and actively preserving the needlearts. What about having Pat Ryan of R & R Reproductions on your show?? She is located in Virginia Beach, VA, still producing lovely linen fabrics to stitch on. Her store “Dying to Stitch” has an active group of dedicated stitchers. I believe she has a web site as well.
Now I’m thinking differently about a painted canvas kit purchased at a big box yeas ago. Had been dreading the background of basket weave but now feel enabled to do it differently and not covering every intersection. Thanks
Agreed. Those early years of stitching fields of basketweave with wool sucked the fun out of it for me. Mary has changed my thinking, too.
Gary
I truly love your podcast. It is the first one I listen to every time it is downloaded. I know your format is to have it like a chat without editing. But maybe sometimes you can edit it so the listener has a better experience. The telephone ringing in the background took way too long to resolve. Could that have been edited out? And there was so much background rustling noise throughout the podcast. I am not a podcaster, so I don’t know the specifics of the microphones, but wow, if it could be filtered out, that would be awesome. It is distracting and takes away the listener’s focus on the topic. I almost turned the podcast off, but persevered because I liked the topic. Just somethings to think about. Again, I do really like the podcasts.
First,thanks for listening. We had a few things to edit out in that show and one was the phone. Apparently I forgot to remove that. My apologies. Yes the rustling sound was a problem Mary wass having with her mic. We couldn’t get it solved so had to go ahead with the show. We do strive to eliminate distractions such as that but let you down this time.
Gary