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Fiber Talk Stitched Stories Kit Unboxing

Beth and Gary open their new Stitched Stories kits and show how well they’re put together, the quality materials, and the excellent instructions that make it possible for veterans and beginners to have success stitching the designs. Listen to our May 21, 2022 interview with Debbie Hodge of Stitched Stories, and check out her beautiful designs at stitchedstories.com.

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Fiber Talk with Debbie Hodge

Sometimes a bundle of Stitched Stories designs will satisfy your stitching needs.
What’s swirling in your head when you create? Design by Debbie Hodge, Stitched Stories
This week’s show is sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery and our guest is the talented designer Debbie Hodge of Stitched Stories. The name of her company is an accurate description of her needle art. She tells stories with her embroidery designs which use a limited variety of stitches to keep you interested and successful. Her bright color palette and well-designed kits will appeal to beginners and veterans. In our conversation, we learn about her “maker” career and what has gone into developing her business. Be sure to visit her website, stitchedstories.com and please support our sponsor, Sassy Jacks Stitchery at sassyjacksstitchery.com–Beth and Gary

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Stitched Stories unboxing video

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Fiber Talk with Lorna Bateman

Lorna Bateman’s Springtime design
Lorna Bateman’s Berries for the Birds pincushion design.

Lorna Bateman joins us this week from England to talk about embroidery, stumpwork, silk-ribbon embroidery, teaching in the Alps, and her business. Teaching is Lorna’s passion. Her goal is to try and encourage people to try as many different forms of embroidery as possible, using a kit as an aid to move onto working and experimenting with their own designs.

She has been teaching for the past 27 years in related fields of three-dimensional and textured hand embroidery and has designed her own kits for the past 16 years. She enjoys working with a variety of threads and silk ribbons to achieve a raised and textured effect and experimenting with a number of different embroidery techniques. Lorna often uses flowers and landscapes as sources of inspiration.

Lorna Bateman’s workshop.

Lorna was trained by Lesley Turpin-Delport in creative embroidery and initially worked under her as a franchise teacher, before branching out on her own. Her upcoming book, Embroidered Country Gardens, will be published by Search Press in spring 2019. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Lorna Bateman–Christine and Gary

Inside view of Lorna Bateman’s workshop.

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Lorna Bateman’s Bouquet de Fleurs design.

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We hope you enjoy this week’s chat with Lorna Bateman. 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