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Posted on November 5, 2023November 5, 2023 by Gary Parr — Leave a comment

Fiber Talk with Jamie Chalmers

A series of designs Jamie created using spam email subject lines.

Cover of the first issue of “XStitch” magazine

Jamie Chalmers, Mr. X Stitch, joins us this week in a show sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery. We have a fascinating conversation with Jamie about the multi-faceted textile-arts business that started with a cross-stitch kit he picked up while traveling. His website, designed to celebrate and promote needlework artists, has grown to include the Needlexchange podcast in which he talks with artists and the very popular XStitch magazine. Behind it all is a person who lives and breathes needlework and loves to recognize and promote the beautiful work artists do with needle and thread, no matter the technique. His enthusiasm is infectious and visiting his various websites will significantly broaden your needlework awareness.–Beth and Gary

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This week’s sponsor is Sassy Jacks Stitchery at sassyjacksstitchery.com.

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Posted on September 23, 2023 by Gary Parr — Leave a comment

Fiber Talk with Sue Reed

Our guest this week is counted-canvas designer Sue Reed in a show sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery. Sue Reed is one of the top counted-canvas designers in the stitching world, known for her creative designs for needleworkers of all levels. Sue is an Elsa Williams School of Needle Arts Certified Teacher, a Senior Level ANG Master Teacher, and has played a major role in the history of the American Needlepoint Guild. She has had a long designing and teaching career and it was an absolute pleasure to learn how she made her way to the upper echelon of needlepoint designers. We hope you enjoy the conversation and encourage you to contact Sassy Jacks Stitchery and try one of Sue’s designs.–Gary

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This show is also available on FlossTube. Click here to view it.

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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Sue Reed. We’re always looking for guests, so let me know if there is someone you’d like me to have on the show.–Gary

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Posted on April 29, 2023April 29, 2023 by Gary Parr — Leave a comment

Fiber Talk with Di Cawdron and Debbie O’Brien, Appletons Wool

Appletons Wool offers 425 colors and that number is growing.

Designs/kits are also part of the Appletons offerings.

Di Cawdron, owner, and Debbie O’Brien, Wool Manager, of Appleton’s Wool are our guests this week. The show is sponsored by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America at egausa.org. EGA is renewing its FiberTalk5 offer of $5 off a new or virtual lecture for EGA members. Appletons Wool was started in 1835 and Di and her now-retired partner Julia, purchased it in 2013. We learn about this historic needlework company and how Di, Debbie, and their team have worked to modernize the operations and continue to provide the quality wool thread that is associated with the Appletons name. They’ve also increased the number of colors–now 425 and growing–and have done so without any interruption in supply during the pandemic. Learn all about how they create the some of the finest wool thread in the needlework world with all-British sources from sheep to needle.–Gary

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This show is also available on FlossTube. Click here to view it.

Visit the EGA website at egausa.org and consider joining.

You can listen by using the player above or you can subscribe to Fiber Talk through iTunes, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Spotify, Audible, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Podbay, Podbean, and many other podcast sources. To receive e-mail notification of new podcasts, provide your name and e-mail address below. We do not sell/share e-mail addresses.

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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Di and Debbie. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.

Posted on April 23, 2023 by Gary Parr — Leave a comment

Fiber Talk with Wendy Lynn

Art by Sally Mavor, the April 2023 Virtual Lecture presenter.

Whale Tale Journal online class by Catherine Jordan.

Sassy Jacks Stitchery is sponsoring this week’s conversation with Wendy Lynn, Director of Membership and Marketing for the Embroiderers’ Guild of America. Our overall goal in this conversation is to help listeners better understand the depth and breadth of what the EGA has to offer to needleworkers of all ages, skill levels, and technique interests. In other words, it’s not an organization just for surface embroiderers. You’ll also learn that there are several ways to participate in EGA activities, from local chapters to regional organizations to the national level. If you don’t want to join a local chapter or one doesn’t exist nearby, become a member at large. There are also many free offerings to non-members. We hope you’ll enjoy learning more about EGA and what it provides to needleworkers.–Beth and Gary

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Support our sponsor, Sassy Jacks Stitchery at sassyjacksstitchery.com.

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Free/non-member EGA offerings

We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Wendy Lynn. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Gary Parr — 3 Comments

Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 3-22-23

We have reached the next Wednesday in the weekly sequence so we chatted about needlework. Topics this week include the Fibertalk5 discount code for EGA Virtual Lectures, Cyberpointers activities, samplers that go beyond cross stitch, Cindy’s multi-project stitching factory, Gary’s vintage Singer sewing machine rehab project (send photos of your vintage machines), having more stash than you can stitch in a lifetime, and blackwork and the interesting designs produced by Urban Stitches. Sunday: Susan Kay-Williams, Chief Executive of the Royal School of Needlework. March 29 Stitch Hour: Barbara Hutson of Queenstown Sampler Designs with a discount on Queenstown charts/kits from Sassy Jacks Stitchery.–Cindy and Gary

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Summer Fireworks, stitched by Cindy Baldwin.

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We hope you enjoy the show. We’re always looking for guests, so let me know if there is someone you’d like me to have on the show.

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