Month: January 2018

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 1-10-18

Petite Very Velvet is one of Mary McGuire’s 10 Favorite Threads.
This week’s Midweek Chat is a new video Gary recorded with talented needlepointer Mary McGuire. In the video Gary and Mary discuss Mary’s 10 favorite threads and look at the effects they have in several needlepoint designs and painted canvases. Mary’s favorites are Petite Very Velvet, Impressions, Gloriana silks, Threadworx overdyed floss, Vineyard silk, Petite Sparkle Rays, DMC Floche, Watercolors and Wildflowers, DMC Perle Cotton, and Kreinik metallics. We hope you enjoy this thread exploration and will maybe identify one or two you’d like to try on your next project.–Christine and Gary

The video is also available on FlossTube. Click here to view it.

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Fiber Talk with Lorene Salt

Lorene Salt’s Autumn Kaleidoscope
Our first guest in 2018 is needlepoint designer Lorene Salt. We first encountered Lorene’s work when we learned that she is doing a year-long project with Needle Artists by the Sea, using her stunning Autumn Kaleidoscope design. Lorene was a cross stitcher until she ran into Gayle Bicknell’s Pieces of Eight design. Stitching that excellent piece of needlepoint addicted her and it wasn’t long before she was using her fashion design background to create her own designs. In addition to designing, she has completed all three levels of the Embroiderers Association of Canada’s Canvaswork Correspondence courses and teaches regularly in Canada and the U.S. We had a great time talking about stitching with Lorene and hope you’ll enjoy listening to the conversation.–Christine and Gary

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Lorene Salt’s Serendipity.

Lorene Salt’s Frozen Reflections.
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.

Learn more about Lorene and enjoy looking at her designs by visiting her website at lorenesaltneedlearts.com

Visit the Needle Artists by the Sea website to learn more about the year-long Autumn Kaleidoscope project.

We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Lorene Salt. 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, 1-3-18

The holidays are over and we’re back for another year of needlework chit chat. Out of the gate we get caught up in a discussion about movie and TV show costumes, then move on to books we received as Christmas gifts, and finish up with some general stitching talk. In other words, the usual midweek chat. Sunday our guest is Lorene Salt. Next Wednesday, Gary and Mary McGuire talk about Mary’s favorite threads in a new video.–Gary and Christine

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The podcast is also available on Flosstube.

Books we talked about in the show: