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Fiber Talk with Heather Zoppetti

Heather Zoppetti’s new Gallo shawl design.

It’s two-needle time! Our mid-week guest is Heather Zoppetti, a knitwear designer, teacher, and author of Everyday Lace and Unexpected Cables. She lives in Lancaster, PA with her husband and yarn collection. Her patterns have been published in many Interweave publications and in Vogue Knitting, Creative Knitting, and by yarn companies such as Anzula, Sweet Georgia Yarns, Manos del Uruguay, Baah!, Reywa Fibers, The Alpaca Yarn Company, and Universal Yarns. Heather is the owner and founder of Stitch Sprouts, a company dedicated to helping your stitches grow. Stitch Sprouts is a distribution company offering access to the highest quality yarns to fill your shelves and hundreds of patterns and books by popular designers.–Christine and Gary

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Heather Zoppetti’s Gallo shawl with the shawl pin.

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Heather Zoppetti’s Recommendations
At the end of the show, Heather offered several recommendations. Below are links to those items:

We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Heather Zoppetti. 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 Barbara Benson

Barbara Benson’s new book, Mosaic & Lace Knits
More two-needle fiber arts this week with knitting designer Barbara Benson. Barbara is an independent knitwear designers who lives in Tucker, GA. Her designs focus on detailed, creative and innovative knitted accessory patterns that are well written, yarn conscious, and fun to knit. Barbara’s designs can be found in books, collections, and magazines including Knitscene and Twist Collective, in addition to Ravelry and wholesale through Stitch Sprouts. She is author of a new knitting book, Mosaic & Lace Knits, which will be available March 31, 2017. You can connect with Barbara at any of the links below. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Barbara Benson and will tell others about Fiber Talk.–Christine and Gary

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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, Stitcher, TuneIn, Podbay, and Podbean. To receive e-mail notification of new podcasts, provide your name and e-mail address below. We do not sell/share e-mail addresses.

The Isochronal Arch shawl by Barbara Benson from the new book Mosaic & Lace Knits. Photo: Tom Moore
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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Barbara Benson. 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 Jennifer Lucas

Jen’s new book, Stunning Stitches, available in May

This week we go to the knitting world to talk with knitting designer Jennifer Lucas of Jen Lucas Designs. Jen has been knitting since 2004 and designing since 2008. She is author of the popular Sock Yarn Shawls books and a big fan of crock-pot cooking. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Jen Lucas and will tell others about Fiber Talk.–Christine and Gary

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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, Stitcher, TuneIn, Podbay, and Podbean. To receive e-mail notification of new podcasts, provide your name and e-mail address below. We do not sell/share e-mail addresses.

Jen Lucas’ Lokum design.

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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Jen Lucas. 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 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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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. To receive e-mail notification of new podcasts, provide your name and e-mail address below. We do not sell/share e-mail addresses.

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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Here are links to items discussed in the show:

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