Big Foot is real!! Momentous sighting captured by Doug, the Floss Jedi, and verified by Vicki, Ixstitch.It’s the third day after Sunday, Sassy Jacks is the sponsor, and Gary and Vonna are the chatters. The subjects include our Friday Night Live shows; recent videos; favorite podcasts; a book suggestion from Gary; Vonna’s dreams; Vonna’s Big Foot obsession and a visit from the elusive one, captured by Doug, the Floss Jedi, and our 2020 stitching plans. 2020 could be the year in which Vonna does a Walnetto stitch. That will make Jean Hilton roll over in her grave! We hope you enjoy the show and invite you to join us on YouTube for our Friday Night Live show.–Vonna and Gary
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Interesting to hear about all those different podcasts! I’m only just getting into them (like Vonna I’m an avid audiobook listener, mostly not-too-challenging mysteries like Dorothy L Sayers and Agatha Christie) and one that I really enjoy (although it’s really a radio programme whose archives you can listen to, rather than a “proper” podcast) is the BBC’s Moral Maze, where a panel of four and four “witnesses” discuss a moral dilemma/problem/topic. They can be a bit challenging, but very interesting!
One reason why English/European stitchers and designers may not have embraced floche yet is that it is very difficult to find here! I’ve got a small collection that I got from Hedgehog Handworks in the US quite a few years ago, but what with postage, VAT, import duties and Royal Mail’s ridiculous £8 handling fee it’s simply prhibitively expensive to get supplies from the US 🙁 Many of the sources that Google brings up for floche in the UK is something called “DMC floche à broder” which on closer inspection turns out not to be floche at all but more like coton à broder – that’s a great thread in itself and I love using it, but it is not floche! I do like floche, but purely because of the problems described above I use it very little, and not at all in any designs I mean to publish because people outside theUS would find it so difficult to get the threads.
Thank you! I always learn and in so many directions, I understand now about podcasts (maybe). I was watching on You Tube…. Now a new world that “Fiber Talk made me do it” has delivered. I live in Montana which has no needlework shop anymore and Fiber Talk keeps me informed and broke. I do counted canvas (fortunate to have lived in LA for a time and most fortunate to have taken may classes from Jean Hilton, a wonderful person), hardanger, and cross stitch, etc. When Nordic Needle was still owned by Roz Watnemo & Susan Meier, my mother and I made a road trip there. Both Roz and Susan have retired, but would be wonderful to have a show with either. I think Roz still designs some and she has broadened hardanger using different fibers and cloth. Save the Stitches is a wonderful reference. And Vonna, thank you for all those positive vibes and your finishing tutorials are so very helpful. I abandoned cross stitch for a long time, but you have renewed my love for it and have turned into a “serial starter”! Now off to order Fiber Talk needle minders. If there are other ways to support your endeavors for keeping us all entertained and informed at the same time, please let us know! Thank You & Merry Christmas! Mary Kay
Mary Kay, Thanks for your kind words and glad we could help you spend your money 😉 and rekindle your love of cross stitch. Thanks also for your support. Needle minders are on their way to you today. Hope you’ll be able to join us tonight for our live show on YouTube. Gary
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Interesting to hear about all those different podcasts! I’m only just getting into them (like Vonna I’m an avid audiobook listener, mostly not-too-challenging mysteries like Dorothy L Sayers and Agatha Christie) and one that I really enjoy (although it’s really a radio programme whose archives you can listen to, rather than a “proper” podcast) is the BBC’s Moral Maze, where a panel of four and four “witnesses” discuss a moral dilemma/problem/topic. They can be a bit challenging, but very interesting!
One reason why English/European stitchers and designers may not have embraced floche yet is that it is very difficult to find here! I’ve got a small collection that I got from Hedgehog Handworks in the US quite a few years ago, but what with postage, VAT, import duties and Royal Mail’s ridiculous £8 handling fee it’s simply prhibitively expensive to get supplies from the US 🙁
Many of the sources that Google brings up for floche in the UK is something called “DMC floche à broder” which on closer inspection turns out not to be floche at all but more like coton à broder – that’s a great thread in itself and I love using it, but it is not floche!
I do like floche, but purely because of the problems described above I use it very little, and not at all in any designs I mean to publish because people outside theUS would find it so difficult to get the threads.
Thank you! I always learn and in so many directions, I understand now about podcasts (maybe). I was watching on You Tube…. Now a new world that “Fiber Talk made me do it” has delivered. I live in Montana which has no needlework shop anymore and Fiber Talk keeps me informed and broke. I do counted canvas (fortunate to have lived in LA for a time and most fortunate to have taken may classes from Jean Hilton, a wonderful person), hardanger, and cross stitch, etc. When Nordic Needle was still owned by Roz Watnemo & Susan Meier, my mother and I made a road trip there. Both Roz and Susan have retired, but would be wonderful to have a show with either. I think Roz still designs some and she has broadened hardanger using different fibers and cloth. Save the Stitches is a wonderful reference. And Vonna, thank you for all those positive vibes and your finishing tutorials are so very helpful. I abandoned cross stitch for a long time, but you have renewed my love for it and have turned into a “serial starter”! Now off to order Fiber Talk needle minders. If there are other ways to support your endeavors for keeping us all entertained and informed at the same time, please let us know!
Thank You & Merry Christmas! Mary Kay
Mary Kay,
Thanks for your kind words and glad we could help you spend your money 😉 and rekindle your love of cross stitch. Thanks also for your support. Needle minders are on their way to you today. Hope you’ll be able to join us tonight for our live show on YouTube.
Gary