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Fiber Talk Samplers Series

Wednesday night, Oct. 6, we broadcast our fourth in the series of live sampler shows. This week we were live at The Attic (attic needlework.com) with Jean Lea and our pocketbooks are lighter for it. For the other three shows in the series, we enjoyed seeing a number of samplers from the collection of Kim Young, Sassy Jacks Stitchery (sassyjacksstitchery.com), fawned over some of the collection owned by Melinda Cole of Merry Wind Farm, and received an excellent sampler education from Vickie LoPiccolo Jennett of Needlework Press. If you missed any shows or want to see them again, they are all presented below. We hope you enjoy them.–Gary, Beth, and Jenifer

Kim Young, Sassy Jacks Stitchery

Melinda Cole, Merry Hill Farm

Vickie LoPiccolo Jennett, Needlework Press

Jean Lea, The Attic

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 9-29-21

Marion Lang from Sassy Jacks Stitchery, stitched by Beth Ellicott.

It’s the day for the Midweek Chat and Beth and Gary are talking about a fund-raising 1707 German sampler being offered as a pdf download from the Embroiderers’ Guild of Western Australia (wetalkfiber.com/german), traveling and stitching, the Bristol museum in Tennessee, the EGA Master Craftsman program, and Beth’s new WIPsbegone2021 efforts. Join us tonight for our third in the series of reproduction sampler Fiber Talk Stitch Hours. This week we’ll be live at the home of Vickie LoPiccolo Jennett of Needlework Press to view some of her collection.. We start at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on the Fiber Talk YouTube channel. Sunday’s guest: Karen Torrisi–Beth and Gary

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German Sampler 1707, reproduction.
German Sampler 1707 reimagined.

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Fiber Talk with Vickie LoPiccolo Jennett and Maegan Jennett

Lucy V. Moore sampler, reproduced by Needlework Press.

Needlework Press is a unique, multi-faceted business, created and operated by my guests Vickie LoPiccolo Jennett and Maegan Jennett. This week’s show is sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery. Needlework press, at its core, is a sampler-reproduction operation. But they go much beyond offering samplers to include writing articles, producing books, publishing a popular needlework calendar, creating printed needlework accessories, and teaching. In addition, Vickie and Maegan are active collectors of antique needlework tools and accessories. Driving all of this is a commitment to present and share needlework history. I’m confident you’ll enjoy learning from Vickie and Maegan.–Gary

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Fiber Talk Sampler Sunday

Lydia Barnes Pidgeon 1827 by Scattered Seed Samplers

It’s Sampler Sunday with Vonna and Gary. We’ve been planning for some time to do a Wednesday show in which we talk about what we like about the samplers we own. We never seem to get to it, so we decided to record a special show, thus our first Sampler Sunday. Even better is that the show is sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery. Even better than that, Sassy Jacks Stitchery is offering a 15% discount on full kits (chart, threads, ground cloth) for each of the samplers we talk about in the show. Full details about this offer are provided in the show introduction. We hope you enjoy Sampler Sunday.–Gary and Vonna

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Slideshow of samplers in the order we talked about them.

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 5-29-19

Lucy Navier 1818 from Hands Across the Sea Samplers.

It’s Video Wednesday and I have two of them for you, both made with Jean Lea during my recent visit to The Attic Needlework shop in Mesa, AZ. The first is a tour of Lucy Navier 1818, the Hands Across the Sea Samplers 2019 Queen of the May reproduction. It’s a design with several elements that will intrigue anyone who loves reproduction samplers. The second is a video I’ve wanted to do for some time. Jean treated all of us to a rather extended discussion of her all-time and/or current favorite samplers. It also became obvious during the video that she has a bad case of startitis. I hope you enjoy hearing Jean talk about her favorite subject. In addition, remember that tomorrow and Friday I’m at Sassy Jacks for the Bathya workshop with Nicola Parkman. Watch for more interviews and videos. Sunday’s guest: Vonna joins me to interview Jacob deGraaf of Modern Folk Embroideries. There will also be a discount on his designs.–Gary

Lucy Navier 1818 with Jean Lea

Jean Lea’s Favorite Samplers

Eliza Skelton, one of Jean Lea’s all-time favorites.

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