Blackbird Inn from Little House Needleworks, stitched by Vonna Pfeiffer.It’s that day again and Vonna Pfeiffer joins Gary to talk about irons, the Linen and Threads SAL, stitching rotations, New Year projects, HAED projects, WIPs, and whether beginner pieces are necessary. If you started a new project on Jan. 1, post it on Instagram and use hashtag #fibertalk so we can see what our listeners are working on for 2019. Sunday’s guest: Margaret Bendig
Music Gives My Soul Wings, stitched by Shirley Crockett, finished by Vonna, design by Ursula Michael.There is a treasure trove of information from Vonna at the links below:
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Would love to hear an interview with Tanja Berlin. She is RSN trained, now living in Calgary. She designs and teaches beautiful blackwork, needlepainting, whitework, and various other varieties of surface embroidery. She is a specialist retailer in goldwork supplies. Thanks!
No new books yet Gary? I din’t start anything new, yet. I am doing Catherine Jordan’s Map class from Cyberstitchers which starts in Febuary. HAED’s are kind of addicting. I am slowly working on one now. I haven’t stitched on it for a few months and I am missing it. Hope Christine is ok. Miss the banter she adds.
What many of us have is an as yet unidentified disease!!!…..Today I purchased Kim’s first published chart…kitted up, of course!!! Thinking that will be my New Year’s start. Donna is one of my favorite guests. Great show. Hope Christine is well. Stitch on!
In regards to the iron (in the beginning)? I have had rust/dirt come from previous irons before and that is why I don’t put water in them, I have a spray bottle nearby instead.
Thanks for listening. Probably a smart move to use the spray bottle. We always dump the water out of the iron when we finish using it, but no water definitely eliminates the rust potential. Gary
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It’s a Wednesday so we’re chatting about needlework. Topics this week include our upcoming May 5 show about the work done by the Royal School of Needlework to provide embroidered pieces for the Coronation, needle case kits from Tanja Berlin of Berlin Embroidery, Mary Corbet, museums, Wintertur, goldwork, blackwork, and making linen and specialty threads. […]
Blackwork is our topic this week and our guest is Sian Fish of The Urban Stitches. The show is sponsored by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America and Sassy Jacks Stitchery. Sian Fish is a self-taught stitcher and designer who loves to work in the macabre/gothic world of needlework design. But not all of her topics […]
Lita O’Hara, the Nashville Needlepointer and Patron Saint of Chaos, is our guest this week. Lita is a self-taught painted-canvas designer and project finisher. In our conversation we learn about her design process, what it was like to paint those first canvases, and how her finishing business evolved. To keep sanity in her life and […]
It’s Midweek Chat week and Beth and Gary connected through our respective internet providers to talk about eyeglasses and what we learned from Kelly Lea Teske, supporting Ukraine designer Ekaterina at stitchyprincess.etsy.com, selecting projects vs. being influenced by stitching friends, projects we have that need to be at the top of the pile, stitching in […]
It’s hard to stitch if you can’t see well and, for most of us, seeing well requires a good pair of glasses. This week, in a show sponsored by CyberPointers, Kelly Lea Teske returns to help us better understand how to make the most of our next visit to the eye doctor and the optician. […]
Would love to hear an interview with Tanja Berlin. She is RSN trained, now living in Calgary. She designs and teaches beautiful blackwork, needlepainting, whitework, and various other varieties of surface embroidery. She is a specialist retailer in goldwork supplies. Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestion. She’s been on the list. Will keep trying. I want to talk to her, too.
Thanks for listening,
Gary
No new books yet Gary? I din’t start anything new, yet. I am doing Catherine Jordan’s Map class from Cyberstitchers which starts in Febuary. HAED’s are kind of addicting. I am slowly working on one now. I haven’t stitched on it for a few months and I am missing it.
Hope Christine is ok. Miss the banter she adds.
What many of us have is an as yet unidentified disease!!!…..Today I purchased Kim’s first published chart…kitted up, of course!!! Thinking that will be my New Year’s start. Donna is one of my favorite guests. Great show. Hope Christine is well.
Stitch on!
Thanks for listening and your continued support.
Gary
Will Christine be back? I miss her contributions.
I hope soon. Thanks for listening.
Gary
In regards to the iron (in the beginning)? I have had rust/dirt come from previous irons before and that is why I don’t put water in them, I have a spray bottle nearby instead.
Thanks for listening. Probably a smart move to use the spray bottle. We always dump the water out of the iron when we finish using it, but no water definitely eliminates the rust potential.
Gary