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Fiber Talk with Cate Carter-Evans

Cate Carter-Evans of Infinite Twist.

Cate Carter-Evans is an American dyer, knitter, weaver, spinner, and seamstress recently transplanted to Singapore after almost eight years in China. Cate dyes yarn and fiber, designs knitting patterns, weaves on her great-grandmother’s antique floor loom, and spins on a wheel made by her Dad. She loves gardening, canning, preserving, and fermenting, and will put kimchi on almost anything. She shares her projects on Infinite Twist’s blog.
All her activities are over-seen by two unimpressed Shanghainese street cats and a three-legged dog of unknown provenance.

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A Cate Carter-Evans two-color brioche. Design uses Infinite Twist Umbra (65% camel down / 35% nylon) and the multi-strand cashmere blend purchased at the Cashmere Market in Shanghai that’s described in the show.

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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Cate Carter-Evans. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.–Gary and Christine


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Fiber Talk with Orna Willis

Designer Orna Willis, of Adorn by Orna.

Orna Willis, designer of some of the most exciting needlepoint charts available today, joins us for a terrific conversation about her fiber-art career and how she approaches color and design. In addition to her needlepoint design work, Orna sells guides and kits, thread bundles, and embellishments through her adornbyorna.com website. She also offers on-site and cyber classes. Through her Etsy shop she also makes available beads, jewelry and fobs that she designs, and a variety of other stitching items.

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We hope you enjoy this week’s Fiber Talk show. You can listen by using the player above or you can subscribe to Fiber Talk through iTunes.

Grace, designed by Orna Willis.

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


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Fiber Talk is on iTunes

Fiber Talk now available in the iTunes store.

The Fiber Talk podcasts are now available on iTunes. Go the iTunes store and subscribe so each podcast will automatically download to your computer or mobile device. We’d also appreciate it if you would rate us. Enjoy the podcasts.–Christine and Gary

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Fiber Talk with Vonna Pfeiffer

Vonna Pfeiffer,
The Twisted Stitcher

 

Vonna Pfeiffer, known as The Twisted Stitcher, joins us this week to talk about her needlework career, stitching, and finishing. Among many other things, you’ll learn where the Twisted Stitcher moniker comes from, a slick way to hang threads, and Vonna’s technique for stuffing ornaments.

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Vonna is very generous with her knowledge. You can follow her/learn from her through various social-media outlets. Here’s a list:

We hope you enjoy this week’s chat with Vonna. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.–Gary and Christine


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Fiber Talk with Debbie Rowley

Debbie Rowley’s latest class design is Angles. Visit her website at debbeesdesigns.com to learn more.

For our first Fiber Talk podcast, we’re very pleased to have Debbie Rowley of DebBee’s Designs as our guest. Debbie is one of the needlepoint hobby’s leading designers and we had a terrific conversation with her on a wide range of stitching topics. We hope you enjoy our first podcast and hearing Debbie’s thoughts on the fiber-arts hobbies.

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Thanks for listening and, if you enjoyed the podcast, please tell others.

Gary and Christine