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Fiber Talk Stitch Hour, 4-14-21

Download Marion Lang for free until 9:00 p.m. Eastern, April 21: wetalkfiber.com/lang. Kits are available at wetalkfiber.com/langkit
If you enjoy antique samplers, you’ll enjoy this week’s Fiber Talk Stitch Hour. We immersed ourselves for 90 min. in part of Kim Young’s (Sassy Jacks Stitchery) sampler collection. We talk about some amazing samplers, many of which have or are being charted and will be available in the future. Kim also has made available for free Marion Lang, a beautiful Scottish sampler. Download it at wetalkfiber.com/lang and purchase your kit from Sassy Jacks Stitchery at wetalkfiber.com/langkit. If you didn’t see it live, set aside some time to enjoy the recording.–Gary, Beth, and Kim
Download Marion Lang at https://www.wetalkfiber.com/lang
Purchase kits for Marion Lang at https://www.wetalkfiber.com/langkit

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 4-14-21

Marion Lang from the Kim Young collection.
We are confronted with yet another Wednesday so we might as well do some needlework chatting. This week Beth and Gary sign on to talk about our current activities, our Stitch Hour show tonight with Kim Young and a selection of her sampler collection, what we learned from our tour at Gallery76 last week, classes we would take at the EGA Seminar, the appeal of whitework, Terri Bay, elevating our stitching, and tablet technology for stitchers. Join us to night for Fiber Talk Stitch Hour with our guest Kim Young at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on the Fiber Talk YouTube channel.–Beth and Gary

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Beth’s progress on Agnus Dei from Modern Folk Embroidery.
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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 9-12-18

Nicola Parkman, Hands Across the Sea Samplers, with Ann Forfitt 1812

This week’s Midweek Chat isn’t a chat at all. It’s a video Gary made with Nicola Parkman of Hands Across the Sea Samplers in which we look at six original samplers: Eliza Bell Cox 1832, Amy Cann 1831, Elizabeth Beaven 1835, Elizabeth Harding 1791, Anne Elizabeth Barker, and Ann Forfitt 1812. We hope you enjoy this tour of some impressive original samplers. Sunday’s Guest: Kimberly Ann Carter of Kimberly Ann Needlepoint

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Fiber Talk Update with Gary Parr

Esther Benson 1738, a Sassy Jacks exclusive.

This week, as a result of our trip to Sassy Jacks, we have broken our normal format. We don’t have a guest today, but Gary gives an update, some advice on how to handle/save podcast files, and we provide you with a video tour of MH 1656, a band sampler from Hands Across The Sea Samplers. We’ll be back Wednesday with our normal show and next Sunday with guests from the San Francisco School of Needlework & Design.-–Gary and Christine

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MH 1656, a new reversible band sampler from HATS.

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Video tour of Esther Benson 1738 with Nicola Parkman.

Video tour of MH 1656 with Nicola Parkman.

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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Gay Ann Rogers. 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 at Sassy Jacks Stitchery, Day Two

Esther Benson 1739

It’s day two of the seminar at Sassy Jacks Stitchery, focused on the exclusive reproduction sampler Esther Benson 1739. Nicola Parkman of Hands Across the Sea Samplers reproduced the sampler and her presentation focuses on sampler history and stitching Esther Benson. Below is a FaceBook Live podcast Christine and Gary did at Sassy Jacks, a video tour of Esther Benson Gary did with Nicola, part of Nicola’s presentation on sampler history, and a video on how to do the stem stitch. Stitchers interested in owning Esther Benson should contact Sassy Jacks at sassyjacksstitchery.com.

FaceBook Live video:

Gary and Nicola Parkman tour Esther Benson 1738

Sampler history with Nicola Parkman

Nicola Parkman’s Stem Stitch lesson