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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Take Wing from Joanna Kabanoff of Mojo Stitches. Kits from Sassy Jacks at wetalkfiber.com/wing.It’s the day in the middle and we have some big announcements. Probably the biggest is that Fiber Talk will be attending and broadcasting live shows, interviews, and exhibit tours from the EGA Seminar in Sept. We’re very excited to be able to share the event with those who can’t attend. We also will be celebrating World Embroidery Day on July 30 with a three hour stitch-and-chat show from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Eastern on the YouTube channel. Join us and three designers for some fun needlework conversation. Friday night at 8:00 p.m. on the YouTube channel, Beth and Gary will be doing a live show to talk about our painted-canvas projects. Tonight, on the Fiber Talk Stitch Hour, also at 8:00 p.m. on the YouTube channel, we’ll learn how to do needle lace with Carrie Noess. In addition, Beth and Gary talk about experimenting with threads, substituting when threads don’t work out, whether perfection is really that important, where we find joy in stitching, and how much we like the Adjust-A-Frame stretcher bars. We hope you enjoy the show and can participate in our upcoming events.–Beth and Gary
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Seven days have passed since we last did this Midweek Chat thing and time has given us more to talk about. This week Beth and Gary begin exploring painted-canvas needlepoint projects, talk about Gary’s studio progress, and talk about using historical art and designs in today’s needle arts. Are we being honoring those in the past? Being respectful? Keeping old things alive so history isn’t forgotten. No clear answer but a topic worth discussing. Sunday’s guest: Ekta Kaul–Beth and Gary
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The sound is rather rocky in this show (technical problems), but it’s Wednesday and we’re chatting, nonetheless. We had a list of topics this week and got to the Jane Wood and Arlene Cohen items, but then veered off the road and talked at length about the psychology of stitching and then moved on to news feeds. We hope the discussion gives you food for thought or, at the least, is interesting. Sunday’s guest: Linda Eaton, head curator at Winterthur.
Wednesday has arrived once again so we’re chatting. Topics include Theresa Venette’s new sampler zine, our Sassy Jacks visit, finding needlework stores while traveling, scissor sharpening, stitch-guide writers, and the “stabby” design–Gary and Christine Sunday’s guest: Gay Ann Rogers
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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. […]
Blackwork is our topic this week and our guest is Sian Fish of The Urban Stitches. The show is sponsored by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America and Sassy Jacks Stitchery. Sian Fish is a self-taught stitcher and designer who loves to work in the macabre/gothic world of needlework design. But not all of her topics […]
Lita O’Hara, the Nashville Needlepointer and Patron Saint of Chaos, is our guest this week. Lita is a self-taught painted-canvas designer and project finisher. In our conversation we learn about her design process, what it was like to paint those first canvases, and how her finishing business evolved. To keep sanity in her life and […]
It’s Midweek Chat week and Beth and Gary connected through our respective internet providers to talk about eyeglasses and what we learned from Kelly Lea Teske, supporting Ukraine designer Ekaterina at stitchyprincess.etsy.com, selecting projects vs. being influenced by stitching friends, projects we have that need to be at the top of the pile, stitching in […]
It’s hard to stitch if you can’t see well and, for most of us, seeing well requires a good pair of glasses. This week, in a show sponsored by CyberPointers, Kelly Lea Teske returns to help us better understand how to make the most of our next visit to the eye doctor and the optician. […]
