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Fiber Talk with Orna Willis

The Come Dance With Me design that Orna created and Gary started and now needs to finish.
Needlepoint designer and teacher, jewelry designer, and all-around artist Orna Willis joins us this week to talk about her design classes, Coqui design that raises money to help people in Puerto Rico, her latest jewelry designs, and how she views the finer aspects of stitching. It’s a fun and interesting discussion with one of the hobby’s leading and most creative designers.–Christine and Gary

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Take Orna’s upcoming design class and she’ll equip you with all of these tools.
We hope you enjoy this week’s Fiber Talk show. You can listen by using the player above or you can subscribe to Fiber Talk through iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, Podbay, and Podbean. To receive e-mail notification of new podcasts, provide your name and e-mail address below. We do not sell/share e-mail addresses.

See Orna’s work and communicate with her through her various online sites:

We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Orna Willis. 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


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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 11-06-17

Shepherd’s Bush stocking finished by The Twisted Stitcher.

We’re back for another midweek chat. This time we talk about our respective stitching activities, stumpwork, the Twisted Stitcher finishing another stocking for Gary, and go off on a tangent about the detailed aspects of stitching that may or may not make a difference in the finished project. Our Sunday guest: Orna Willis–Gary and Christine

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The podcast is also available on Flosstube.

Vonna Pfeiffer’s The Twisted Stitcher website

Mary Corbet’s Needle ‘n Thread website


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Fiber Talk with Elizabeth Bozievich

Nov/Dec 2017 Needlepoint Now
Elizabeth Bozievich, owner, publisher, and editor of Needlepoint Now magazine returns to talk about a wide variety of subjects including the magazine and upcoming articles, male stitchers, stitching tours, the health benefits of stitching, and Elizabeth’s dogs.–Christine and Gary

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This show is also available on Flosstube. Click here to view it.

We hope you enjoy this week’s Fiber Talk show. You can listen by using the player above or you can subscribe to Fiber Talk through iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, Podbay, and Podbean. To receive e-mail notification of new podcasts, provide your name and e-mail address below. We do not sell/share e-mail addresses.

Sept/Oct 2017 Needlepoint Now
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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Elizabeth Bozievich. 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


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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 11-29-17

Mary Corbet is stitching trees. Get the ebook on Dec. 2.
We return from our holiday break to talk about new projects for Gary, the Stitchery Row needlework store Christine visited, Mary Corbet activities, Lorene Salt’s Autumn Kaleidoscope design and the Needle Artists by the Sea year-long project, Omanik’s Quantum frame, Victoria Samplers, and a Hands Across the Sea Samplers greeting card giveaway. Our Sunday guest: Elizabeth Bozievich–Gary and Christine

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The podcast is also available on Flosstube.

Lorene Salt’s Autumn Kaleidoscope
Stitchery Row needlework shop website

Mary Corbet’s Needle ‘n Thread website

Hands Across the Sea Samplers website

Needle Artists by the Sea website

Lorene Salt Needlearts website

Omanik Quantum frames

Victoria Sampler website

Orietta Vanzato’s Quantum frame video


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Fiber Talk Reprise with Kurdy Biggs

La Mision–Concepcion, the 2016 ANG Hilton Stitch Award design.

We’re still on our holiday break. For people who are new to the podcast, you may not have had a chance to listen to any of our early shows, so we thought we’d share our fifth show with guest Kurdy Biggs. If you’re a regular listener there is a good chance you’ll enjoy a repeat of this information filled conversation with Kurdy. We’ll be back Wednesday with a new midweek show and Needlepoint Now editor and publisher Elizabeth Bozievich returns Sunday to talk about the latest developments with her magazine and the needlework hobby in general.

This week’s guest is counted-canvas needlepoint designer and teacher Kurdy Biggs. Her design company is Threedles. Kurdy’s designs are inspired by her love of unique stitches, threads, color, and beading, with an emphasis on learning new stitches and creating unique projects. She has been stitching for nearly forty years and has progressed through counted cross-stitch and embroidery, settling on counted (canvas) needlework because of the large variety of results she can achieve. She teaches classes throughout the year at local needlepoint guilds and needlepoint shops. Her La Mision–Concepcion design earned the Hilton Stitch Award at the ANG 2016 New Orleans Seminar.

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This podcast is also available on Flosstube at https://youtu.be/q0PHgndxd7Y

Cleopatra’s Eyes, a design by Kurdy Biggs of Threedles.

We hope you enjoy this week’s Fiber Talk show. You can listen by using the player above or you can subscribe to Fiber Talk through iTunes. To receive e-mail notification of new podcasts, provide your name and e-mail address below. We do not sell/share e-mail addresses.

See Kurdy’s work and communicate with her through her online sites:

Cathedral-Notre Dame, a design by Kurdy Biggs of Threedles.

Here is a link to the ort bowls discussed in the show:

We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Kurdy Biggs. 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