Month: August 2020

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Fiber Talk with Diane Grick

Diane Grick’s very popular Christmas List design.
Garden Bliss by Diane Grick.

Diane Grick of Silver Creek Samplers is a graphic artist by day, a needlework artist by night, and this week’s Fiber Talk guest. Join us to learn about her career as artist for a quilting magazine, her foray into quilting, how quilting led to cross stitch design, and her current design business. We also explore the thinking behind her designs, what inspires her, and how she makes art out of words.  Also, mark Sept. 9 on your calendars. Diane will join us on our Wednesday Stitch Hour show to talk about her designs. We’ll be live at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on the Fiber Talk YouTube channel at wetalkfiber.com/youtube.–Gary

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I hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Diane Grick. I’m always looking for guests, so let me know if there is someone you’d like me to have on the show.–Gary

Diane Grick’s Sing a Sampler four-part series.

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 8-26-20

Join us for a live tour of The Secret Garden exhibition, Sept. 2 at 8:00 p.m. Easter on the Fiber Talk YouTube channel.
Wednesday has arrived on time and we’re talking about the upcoming “The Secret Garden” tour from Gallery76, Sept. 2 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on the Fiber Talk YouTube channel. We also talk about how we’re stitching From Dawn to Dusk and whether it can be stitched horizontally, help with Royal Garden stitches, not flipping the canvas, Hannah Longstreth 1805, and Gary’s new K’s Creations Stow-Away floor stand. We also talk at length about the process of creativity and the various approaches artists take to develop their art. Join us tonight for the Wednesday Stitch Hour at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. Sunday’s guest is Diane Grick of Silver Creek Samplers–Beth and Gary

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Tuxedo colorway of From Dawn to Dusk by Textured Treasures.
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Fiber Talk with Madeleine Harwell

Northern Lights canvas designed by Madeleine Elizabeth.

Our guest this week is Madeleine Harwell of Madeleine Elizabeth. The show is sponsored by Needle in a Haystack at needlestack.com. Madeleine is a talented painted-canvas designer who grew up in a needlepoint shop and, at a very early age, was helping adult customers select threads and stitches for their canvases. Her mother handles the business end of Madeleine Elizabeth, Madeleine creates the art, and together they are making a significant mark in the needlepoint world. Madeleine expresses her art in other ways by painting storefronts and banners. Enjoy hearing her story and visit your local needlepoint store to see her canvases.–Gary

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Canvases by Madeleine Elizabeth.

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Fiber Talk Friday Night Live, 8-21-20

It’s Friday and we gathered once again on the Fiber Talk YouTube channel at wetalkfiber.com/youtube. Tonight we enjoyed the impressive needlework of Dima Santina. You’ll see some beautifully executed goldwork, whitework, cross stitch, embroidery, and needlepoint. In other words, something for everyone.

Dima’s blog: http://d1-d2.blogspot.com
Dima’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dimasantina/


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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 8-19-20

Punch needle design stitched by Jenifer Kopasz-Roos.

It’s the day before Thursday and we’re excited to have Jenifer Kopasz-Roos join the co-hosting team. In this show we get to know Jenifer and her stitching interests; mentally prepare Gary for tonight’s punch needle lesson with Karin Hedburg, punch needle instructor at Sassy Jacks; announce the next live tour with Gallery76 of the Embroiderers Guild Galleries NSW; talk more about Michelle Gajda’s wool applique art; and delve into making Temari balls. Note that Friday’s guest will be Dima Santina. Beth will be with us but we’ll talk about her fabric-dying efforts another time. Clearly Gary can’t keep dates straight. Enjoy the show and join us tonight, Aug. 19 at 8:00 Eastern on the Fiber Talk YouTube channel for the basics of the punch-needle technique. Sunday’s guest is Medeleine Harwell of Madeleine Elizabeth designs.–Jenifer and Gary

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Temari balls stitched by Jenifer Kopasz-Roos.

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