Gary’s in the home stretch of the Lady Mary’s Geometric design by Gay Ann Rogers.Find all of the registration details for the Fiber Talk retreat at wetalkfiber.com/weekend.It’s late in the day but we made the Wednesday midnight deadline. This week’s topics include The Fiber Talk Needle Arts Weekend, supporting Fiber Talk through our new Patreon page (patreon.com/fibertalk), progress on the Stitch Every Day challenge, the impact of JoAnns stores closing on needlework, the role of local needlework stores in our needle art, getting duped by sellers of AI-generated designs, and Cindy’s nail art. Register soon for the Fiber Talk Needle Arts weekend at wetalkfiber.com/weekend and become a Fiber Talk Patreon supporter at patreon.com/fibertalk. Sunday’s guest: Yvette Stanton.–Cindy and Gary
Alison Fowles is ready for the Sassy Jacks/Kim Young finishing class at the Fiber Talk Needle Arts Weekend. wetalkfiber.com/weekendYou can listen by using the player above or you can subscribe to Fiber Talk through iTunes, Amazon Music, Spotify, Audible, iHeart Radio, 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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Garden Path, stitched by Cindy, designed by Sue Reed.Sign up today for the Fiber Talk Needle Arts Weekend retreat, March 21 to 23, 2025. Details at wetalkfiber.com/weekendWe’re at the center of the week and Cindy and Gary have fired up the recording gear to talk about a new one-day option for the Fiber Talk retreat (wetalkfiber.com/weekend); request for questions for upcoming shows; Gary keeping up with Beth’s Stitch Every Day challenge; storing slate frames, scroll rods, and stretcher bars; marking stretcher bars; Gary’s reworked studio; Cindy’s Garden Path project, designed by Sue Reed; Cindy’s Tanja Berlin needle book; your stitch path; keeping holes in your canvas or linen clean; and the importance of needle size. Sign up today for the Fiber Talk Needle Arts Weekend so you don’t miss out on a weekend of needlework fun. Sunday’s guest: Caroline Gilman, Atlantic Blue Canvas–Cindy and Gary
Cindy’s needle book, designed by Tanja Berlin.You can listen by using the player above or you can subscribe to Fiber Talk through iTunes, Amazon Music, Spotify, Audible, iHeart Radio, 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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This Kadinsky painting by Harvey Kravis took his stitching to the limit.Once Around the Sun by Needlepoint Dad Dan Blackwelder has proven to be a popular design.Harvey Kravis and Dan Blackwelder, The Needlepoint Dads, join us this week for a guys-only conversation sponsored by Cyberpointers, the only online chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild. Harvey and Dan followed two different paths to needlepoint and have been stitching for most of their adult lives. Dan is a counted-canvas designer and Harvey enjoys reproducing old-master paintings. They connected through the Needlepoint Nation group on Facebook and decided to pool their talents and start a business. Dan is the needlepoint creator and Harvey handles all of the technical aspects of the business. When they are not developing and providing charts to stitchers, they both spend their time stitching generally large projects. Dan stitches mostly in hand and Harvey relies on his scroll frame. We had a great time talking about needlework from the male perspective and exploring what the Needlepoint Dads business offers for all stitchers.–Gary
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Gage by Orna Willis, offered as a class through the Shining Needle Society.
Nomi’s Dragons, one of Orna’s newest designs.Orna Willis makes her fourth visit this week in a show sponsored by CyberPointers. The focus of our conversation is Orna’s new Gage design and the suicide and mental-illness stories behind it. Gage is a collaboration Orna did with Cecelia Stricklin of The Thread Gatherer in honor of the life of her son Gage. Our awareness of mental health is growing significantly these days and needlework can play a role in helping people who are struggling. The Gage project is being offered as a class through the Shining Needle Society and there is still room left in the class. You must act quickly. The extended deadline is Dec. 16, 2022 and the class starts Feb. 1, 2023. Learn more in the Cyber Classes section of Orna’s website. We also talk about avoiding getting into a design rut, explore Orna’s design process, and how she views older designs. It’s always enlightening and fun to talk with Orna and this week’s conversation is no different. After you listen to the show, visit Orna’s website to explore her catalog of designs and consider participating in the Gage class.–Beth and Gary
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One of the best things in this needle arts world is celebrating a new shop and learning the story behind it. This week that shop is the Fire Poppies Needlework Boutique and the owner, and our guest, is Susan Winter. In our conversation, we’ll answer your first question: Where did the Fire Poppies name come from? The shop will satisfy your favorite stitching technique from cross stitch to counted-canvas needlepoint, hardanger, and surface embroidery. We also talk about the day Susan decided to open a shop, her needlework interests (she’s a full-coverage fanatic), and the wide variety of activities that have already happened and are planned in the coming months (24-hr. pajama parties). We’ll also make you want to travel to Summerville, SC, to spend some time in that beautiful stitching room. Enjoy the show.–Gary
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