Cords created by Anna Crutchley.Tassels by Anna CrutchleyPassementerie, the art of creating tassels, trimmings, cords, and fringes, is our topic this week and our talented artist is Anna Crutchley. The passementerie Anna creates isn’t the simple cords we use to edge finished needlework. What Anna creates is a very different kind of fiber art that can be used to enhance other types of art or stand on its own. In the UK, passementerie is classified as an endangered art form with just a handful of people still practicing it. Anna shares some of the history of tassels and cords, how she became a leading creator and teacher, her book on the art form, and what is involved in making these items. We also gain some insight into using Anna’s four-hook cord spinner. Enjoy the show and explore Anna’s site to learn more.–Beth and Gary
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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Anna Crutchley. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.–Gary
Portrait by Rita Gaspar.Rita Gaspar’s self portrait.
Rita Gaspar joins us from Portugal this week to talk about her captivating portrait embroidery. The show is sponsored by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America at egausa.org. We start the show with Rita teaching us how to pronounce bordado, the Portuguese word for embroidery. We have limited success. Then we move on to learn how Rita moved from crochet to thread painting and creating colorful portraits on printed fabrics, without the ability to draw. We talk about challenges of stitching various part of anatomy and her interesting stitching technique. Rita is a talented embroidery artist and it’s going to be fun to watch her art evolve in the coming years.–Beth and Gary
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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Rita Gaspar. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.–Gary
Fraser Smith’s “Floating” quilt, displayed at the National Quilt Museum.It’s Midweek Chat time. This week’s topics include podcast schedule changes, Mystery in St. Tropez progress, Leslie Rinchen Wongmo and the National Quilt Museum, EGA virtual lectures, holiday stitching, dealing with rough hands (Do you sugar scrub?), and searching for a container that will store Rainbow Gallery threads. Join us tonight for the Fiber Talk Stitch Hour. We start at 8:00 p.m. on the Fiber Talk YouTube channel. The original Stitch and Chat plan has been changed. Instead, we’ll be looking at some of the stunning quilts that are on display at the National Quilt Museum. Sunday’s guest: Rita Gaspar–Beth and Gary
We’re looking for this box, or an equivalent, to store Rainbow Gallery threads.You can listen by using the player above or you can subscribe to Fiber Talk through iTunes, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Spotify, Audible, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Podbay, Podbean, and many other podcast sources. To receive e-mail notification of new podcasts, provide your name and e-mail address below. We do not sell/share e-mail addresses.
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What Then is Time? by Ruth NorburyExit Eternity by Ruth NorburyRuth Norbury of Gothic Decay is our guest this week. The show is sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery. Ruth creates her captivating textile art by starting with a reference photo, then building her ground cloth from scraps of fabric. Once the ground cloth is in place, she executes a series of steps that involve an old manual Singer sewing machine, dyes, stencils, stamp pads, and anything else that will give her the image she wants. Then follows an extensive amount of embroidery with lots of French and bullion knots and beads. Most of her materials come from a local thrift shop. This is textile art at its finest, created by someone who has no fear of the question, What if?–Beth and Gary
Support our sponsor, Sassy Jacks Stitchery at sassyjacksstitchery.com.
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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Ruth Norbury. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.–Gary
We’ve survived another week so we decided to talk about needlework. This week, Beth and Gary discuss the EGA and the Virtual Lecture series, Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo’s book tour, Inspirations magazine, the new Avlea pillow designs, the Cheryl Lennox art-quilt exhibit, maximizing time, battling allergies, and skills only a mother can have. Join us tonight for the Fiber Talk Stitch Hour. Our guest will be Michelle Anais Morgan. We’ll meet her and spend some time talking about her needle art. If you can, listen to the Oct. 9 podcast with Michelle to get some background. The show starts at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on the Fiber Talk YouTube channel. We always have a great time and frequently learn something. Sunday’s guest: Ruth Norbury–Beth and Gary
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