You may be quarantined but you’re not alone. Vonna and Gary will be coming to you live every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday with our new series, Quarantine Stitch Hour. Our sponsors so far are Sassy Jacks Stitchery, Fire Poppies, The Attic, Needle in a Haystack, and Shepherd’s Needle. Expect giveaways and online offerings to help you re-supply online as you eat through projects and help flatten the curve. Stitch with us live on the Fiber Talk YouTube channel at 8:00 Eastern, starting Wednesday, March 18. Also watch for our regular Sunday and Wednesday podcasts and our Friday Night Live shows.
Fiber Talk- Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 4-24-24 April 24, 2024It’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. […]Gary Parr
- Fiber Talk with Sian Fish April 21, 2024Blackwork 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 […]Gary Parr
- Fiber Talk with Lita O’Hara April 14, 2024Lita 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 […]Gary Parr
- Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 4-10-24 April 10, 2024It’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 […]Gary Parr
- Fiber Talk with Kelly Lea Teske April 7, 2024It’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. […]Gary Parr