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
Great show. I was very surprised you all did not conduct interviews with the Royal School when they were in Lexington, Kentucky in July. There were 10 tutors from England plus the director. 3 tutors will be in Williamsburg in October, including
Rachel O’Doyle who wrote the RSN
Book on Canvaswork.
You should follow the blog of Mr. CrossStitch, based in England, who is leading a revolution to modernize cross stitch as well as other modern stitching and fiber use.
I was also surprised you did not do interviews with faculty at the Canadian Association of Embroiders annual seminar in St. EdwArds Island.
They had a number of Australian Embroiderers teaching classes.
Finally, you should talk to the folks at Inspirations Magazine as well as ask them about this fall’s Beating Around the Bush stitching retreat. It is held only every 2 years and features legendary embroiderer’s.
Nicholas Jarvis – with a specialty in Canvaswork, is from the RSN and was teaching at CAE as well as the Northern California summer regional stitching retreat.
Finally how about Phillipa and Laura
Turnbull from Crewelworks in the U.K.
They have fabulous retreats and stitching tours.
It would be nice if you expanded more beyond the cross-stitch world. Sampler discussions are getting overworked. There is so much great Crewel, silk embroidery, blackwork, Goldwork. More shows – try the Annual Woodlawn show in Virginia where for a month this home of Martha Washington’s daughter is turned over to a Needlework Show and competition.
Or how about some of the big on line classrooms : Linen and Threads Mystery CrossStitch Band sampler or
The Shining Needle Society which attracts 100’s of stitchers and big name teachers.