Exactly seven days have passed since we last brought you a chat. This week we talk about a tip for speeding stitching, scroll-rod traveling tubes, bike shops and LNSs, Christine’s need to protect overflow linen, and a WWII POW stitching story. Sunday’s guests: Shana Brooke, SBT Designs
Lucy Barter and Ellice Sperber are our guests this week. These two passionate embroiderers founded the San Francisco School of Needlework & Design in 2015 and have rapidly built it into a force in the needlearts community. The school offers a wide range technique classes, taught by experienced and dedicated masters of the art, in a collegial environment aimed at sharing the pleasures of needlework. In this week’s show learn about those techniques, the school’s quest to attract new/young stitchers, and the exciting Stitch-at-Home Challenge program. The San Francisco School is an organization that all stitchers should seek out because their programs will help you improve your skills and expand your needlework horizons.-–Gary and Christine
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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Lucy Barter and Ellice Sperber. 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
It’s the middle of the week and we have things to talk about. This week’s topics include Mary Corbet, our ranking in the Feedspot top 50 Needlepoint sites list, our experiences at Sassy Jacks, Christine’s San Francisco School Challenge entry, and sampler tours we did with Nicola Parkman.–Gary and Christine Sunday’s guests: Lucy Barter and Ellice Sperber of the San Francisco School of Needlework and Design
This week, as a result of our trip to Sassy Jacks, we have broken our normal format. We don’t have a guest today, but Gary gives an update, some advice on how to handle/save podcast files, and we provide you with a video tour of MH 1656, a band sampler from Hands Across The Sea Samplers. We’ll be back Wednesday with our normal show and next Sunday with guests from the San Francisco School of Needlework & Design.-–Gary and Christine
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Video tour of Esther Benson 1738 with Nicola Parkman.
We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Gay Ann Rogers. 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
It’s day two of the seminar at Sassy Jacks Stitchery, focused on the exclusive reproduction sampler Esther Benson 1739. Nicola Parkman of Hands Across the Sea Samplers reproduced the sampler and her presentation focuses on sampler history and stitching Esther Benson. Below is a FaceBook Live podcast Christine and Gary did at Sassy Jacks, a video tour of Esther Benson Gary did with Nicola, part of Nicola’s presentation on sampler history, and a video on how to do the stem stitch. Stitchers interested in owning Esther Benson should contact Sassy Jacks at sassyjacksstitchery.com.
FaceBook Live video: https://www.facebook.com/FiberTalk/videos/532304640543440/?view_public_for=1814495992141159
Gary and Nicola Parkman tour Esther Benson 1738
Sampler history with Nicola Parkman
Nicola Parkman’s Stem Stitch lesson
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