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Fiber Talk with Ada Haydon

Ornaments by Ada Haydon.
Painted-canvas design by Ada Haydon.

This week’s guest is Ada Haydon of EyeCandy Needleart. The show is sponsored by CyberPointers, the only online chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild. Ada is a talented painted-canvas designer who also creates bargello and charted-canvas designs. It’s an engaging conversation about how Ada became a designer, her approach to design, and the bright, cheery color palette she uses. Enjoy the conversation, visit eyecandyneedleart.com to see Ada’s work, and purchase her canvases from your favorite needlework store.–Gary

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

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Fiber Talk at the Nashville Market II

Our fourth video is with Kathy Rees of Needle Delights Originals. Kathy gives us a tour of her many new Nashville designs.

In our fifth Nashville video Debbie Woodard of Painted Pony Designs shows us the several new painted canvases she introduced at the Nashville show.

In Nashville video number six, Doug Kreinik of Kreinik Manufacturing gives us a tour of their exhibit which includes a large number of products, including several introductions.


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Fiber Talk with Amy Poore

The Be Mine design that started A Poore Girl Paints.

This week’s guest is Amy Poore, needlepoint designer and owner of A Poore Girl Paints Needlepoint Designs. Amy acquired the needlepoint virus from a customer at a nail salon and rapidly progressed from stitcher to designer and producer of creative painted canvases. The real catalyst was her husband, who told her to “get a hobby.” Oops! We have a terrific discussion with Amy about her stitching and design interests and about the needlepoint hobby in general. She’s an exciting contributor to the hobby and is working hard to help attract younger stitchers. Join us this week to learn more about one of the up-and-coming stars in the stitching world.–Christine and Gary

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More from A Poore Girl Paints Needlepoint Designs

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See Amy Poore’s work and communicate

Sounds like a perfect evening.

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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Amy Poore. 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 Debbie Woodard

Painted Pony Designs display at Destination Dallas.
The Holiday Baking Angel, one of many of the angel designs for which Painted Pony Designs is famous.

Our guest this week is Debbie Woodard owner of Painted Pony Designs. Debbie began designing needlepoint in 1989, after working for several years in a needlepoint shop in Austin, TX. The company name reflects her love of art and design and her original goal which was to use the money she made from her original designs to fulfill her childhood dream of purchasing a horse. She realized that dream in 2000 when she purchased Dandy as a Christmas gift for her daughter, Christina.

In our conversation with Debbie we talk about how her company started, the many canvases the company offers, their trunk-show program, and Destination Dallas, an annual trade show partially owned by Debbie. We hope you enjoy listening to the conversation as much as we enjoyed participating in it. Be sure to look for Painted Pony Designs canvases in your local needlework store.–Gary and Christine

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Painted Pony Designs model by Patricia Sone.

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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation Debbie Woodard. 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 Mary Legallet

Mary Legallet’s stitch guide for Zecca’s Royal Peeps canvas.
Mary Legallet joins us this week to talk about a variety to topics, including her stitching career, Whimsical Wednesdays, Small Space Sundays, stitch guides and stitch concepts, and TV we all watch while stitching.

Mary has been needlepointing since high school, but a visit to Needlepoint Inc. in San Francisco in the mid-1990’s revealed decorative stitches and diverse thread choices that captured her imagination, and sparked a new, even deeper love for the craft. She then had the good fortune of learning under the tutelage of Beverly Churchfield and the late Wendy Harwood at Aristeia in Brentwood (now in Santa Monica).

Creating whimsical designs and cultivating a crisp, clean style all her own became not only a passion, but also a refuge. After a 25+ year career in advertising and corporate marketing, Mary chose to focus her life’s second chapter on needlepoint. She created whimsicalstitch.com to share the joy she finds in every new needlepoint project, stitch technique, and even the threads.
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Mary Legallet’s stitch guide for Melissa Shirley’s Passion Flowers & Birds canvas.
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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation Mary Legallet. 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