Month: April 2023

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Fiber Talk with Di Cawdron and Debbie O’Brien, Appletons Wool

Appletons Wool offers 425 colors and that number is growing.
Designs/kits are also part of the Appletons offerings.

Di Cawdron, owner, and Debbie O’Brien, Wool Manager, of Appleton’s Wool are our guests this week. The show is sponsored by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America at egausa.org. EGA is renewing its FiberTalk5 offer of $5 off a new or virtual lecture for EGA members. Appletons Wool was started in 1835 and Di and her now-retired partner Julia, purchased it in 2013. We learn about this historic needlework company and how Di, Debbie, and their team have worked to modernize the operations and continue to provide the quality wool thread that is associated with the Appletons name. They’ve also increased the number of colors–now 425 and growing–and have done so without any interruption in supply during the pandemic. Learn all about how they create the some of the finest wool thread in the needlework world with all-British sources from sheep to needle.–Gary

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Fiber Talk with Wendy Lynn

Art by Sally Mavor, the April 2023 Virtual Lecture presenter.
Whale Tale Journal online class by Catherine Jordan.

Sassy Jacks Stitchery is sponsoring this week’s conversation with Wendy Lynn, Director of Membership and Marketing for the Embroiderers’ Guild of America. Our overall goal in this conversation is to help listeners better understand the depth and breadth of what the EGA has to offer to needleworkers of all ages, skill levels, and technique interests. In other words, it’s not an organization just for surface embroiderers. You’ll also learn that there are several ways to participate in EGA activities, from local chapters to regional organizations to the national level. If you don’t want to join a local chapter or one doesn’t exist nearby, become a member at large. There are also many free offerings to non-members. We hope you’ll enjoy learning more about EGA and what it provides to needleworkers.–Beth and Gary

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Free/non-member EGA offerings

We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Wendy Lynn. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.
 

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 4-19-23

A Jenifer temari ball in progress.
Once again, we have arrived at the middle of the week and Jenifer and Gary have gathered to do some needlework chatting. Topics include current discounts, Dawn Cook Ronningen’s new book, more about vintage sewing machines, spinning stitching thread, Jenifer’s temari “progress,” our approaches to our workspaces (we’re basically twins), and Jenifer’s new stitching chair and the importance of ergonomics. Sunday’s guest: Wendy Lynn, EGA Membership and Marketing Director.–Jenifer and Gary

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Jenifer’s upgraded and ergonomic stitching space.
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Fiber Talk with Margriet Hogue

Margriet Hogue of The Essamplaire.

A. Pinninger sampler from The Essamplaire.
The Kutz sampler from The Essamplaire.
Margriet Hogue, from The Essamplaire, joins us this week to talk about the world of reproduction samplers, particularly from the 16th and 17th centuries. The show is sponsored by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America at egausa.org. If you’re searching for new and different samplers, particularly those that go beyond standard cross stitch, The Essamplaire is your destination. Margriet has a collection of reproductions unlike any you’ll see elsewhere. We explore her interest in samplers, what she’s learned studying them in museums, the silks and linens that were used to stitch the originals, and Margriet’s role in sharing samplers with the needlework world. We also how linen has changed through the centuries. It’s an enlightening conversation with one of the leading reproduction artists in the needle-arts world.–Beth and Gary

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Fiber Talk with Dawn Cook Ronningen II

“Sewing Rolls, Needle Rolls and Huswifs by Dawn Cook Ronningen
Orphan roll detail from Dawn Cook Ronningen’s collection.
Dawn Cook Ronningen, the Collector with a Needle, joins us this week for the second time to talk about her new book, “Sewing Rolls, Needle Rolls and Huswifs.” This week’s show is sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery at sassyjacksstitchery.com and Avlea Folk Embroidery at avleaembroidery.com. Dawn’s new book is a fascinating look into sewing rolls and huswifs, once a primary part of every woman’s and soldier’s daily assemblage of tools. It’s most interesting to learn how these devices were made, used and, in many cases, passed down from generation to generation. We talk about the various types of cloth that were used, the limited instructions that were provided, and what was involved in basic and advanced designs. Be sure to visit Dawn’s online channels as she rolls out patterns so you can make your own and purchase her book, along with her previous book “Antique American Needlework Tools,” from Sassy Jacks Stitchery, direct from Dawn’s Etsy shop, or from your favorite local needlework store.–Beth and Gary

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This week’s sponsor is Sassy Jacks Stitchery at sassyjacksstitchery.com.
Please support our sponsor, Avlea Folk Embroidery at avleaembroidery.com.
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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Dawn Cook Ronningen. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.