Part of Deb Henderson’s Jane Turner 1668 sampler.It’s Wednesday so that means it’s time for some midweek chatting. This week’s topics include Swedish Death Cleaning, our efforts to go a year without buying new needlework items, the Jane Turner project, how we prep linen for new projects, and Edna Sanabia’s question about why samplers always seem to be cross-stitch based. Join us tonight for the Fiber Talk Stitch Hour at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on the Fiber Talk YouTube channel. Sunday’s guest: Jen Weber of Clever Bunny Studio–Beth and Gary
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I do something different with my linen after washing and rolling in a towel. I pop it the freezer. After it’s completely frozen, I take it and carefully unroll it and iron it frozen. The hard creases disappear every time.
Then when your discussion swerved to samplers with stitches other than cross stitch, I wondered if we haven’t already seen the heyday of those types of samplers. I discovered Betsy Stinner’s band samplers in the 1990s which led me a whole different world of stitching. Designers such as Page Dorsey, Sharon Cohen, Catherine Theron, C.A. Wells, Ellen Chester and many more were both reproducing those complicated samplers and using elements and styles of them to chart original samplers. There are designers who are willing to take on these more complicated pieces for reproduction today like our mutual friend, Barbara Hutson. One of these days, one of her pieces will tempt me off the grid and onto some free form embroidery on a sampler.
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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. […]
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I do something different with my linen after washing and rolling in a towel. I pop it the freezer. After it’s completely frozen, I take it and carefully unroll it and iron it frozen. The hard creases disappear every time.
Then when your discussion swerved to samplers with stitches other than cross stitch, I wondered if we haven’t already seen the heyday of those types of samplers. I discovered Betsy Stinner’s band samplers in the 1990s which led me a whole different world of stitching. Designers such as Page Dorsey, Sharon Cohen, Catherine Theron, C.A. Wells, Ellen Chester and many more were both reproducing those complicated samplers and using elements and styles of them to chart original samplers. There are designers who are willing to take on these more complicated pieces for reproduction today like our mutual friend, Barbara Hutson. One of these days, one of her pieces will tempt me off the grid and onto some free form embroidery on a sampler.