Emma Broughton’s portrait of Elizabeth Moss from “The Handmaid’s Tale.” This is the first in Emma’s new series, “Woman Unbound: A Story of Female Empowerment.”Put Emma Broughton’s embroidered boxes on your stitching bucket list.This week we welcome Emma Broughton of Fairy Wren Embroidery. The show is sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery. Emma is a graduate, tutor, and Fellow of the Royal School of Needlework; author of the book “Embroidered Boxes” and creator of beautiful box kits; and working to become a member of the Worshipful Company of Broderers. Emma’s latest project is a new series of large-scale blackwork portraits. The series, entitled “Woman Unbound: A Story of Female Empowerment,” will feature difference-making women in various walks of life. Her first portrait is of Elizabeth Moss who played June Osborne in “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Emma will also participate with other RSN alumni in a new exhibition, “Hand Stitched Heritage, May 16 to June 13, at the Royal West Academy in Bristol. She is a talented and versatile artist who is stretching the boundaries of expression with needle and thread. Enjoy the conversation and visit her website to learn more.–Gary
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The Royal School of Needlework book, “200 Essential Embroidery Stitches,” is available from our sponsor, Sassy Jacks Stitchery.Stitch instructions in the RSN book are extremely well done and easy to follow.This week’s show, sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery, is not our usual needle art designer interview. The good folks at the Royal School of Needlework, through publisher Search Press, have published a new book that we feel should be in the library of every needleworker. The book, 200 Essential Embroidery Stitches, is an excellent print extension of the Royal School’s powerful Stitch Bank. In this week’s show, Beth and Gary do an in-depth review of the book. Prior to publishing this week’s show, we contacted Kim at Sassy Jacks and she has ordered a supply so you can order it and have it shipped to you as soon as Kim receives her shipment.–Beth and Gary
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We hope you enjoy this week’s show about embroidery for the Coronation of King Charles III. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.
Stumpwork by Lucy Martin.A member of the Bert & Ernie elephant team.This week’s guest, Lucy Martin, has packed an entire needle-art career into just a few years, and she’s just getting started. We’re sponsored this week by Sassy Jacks Stitchery. Lucy’s business is Lucy Martin Embroidery and she is head of education at Hand & Lock. A graduate of the Royal School of Needlework, she’s a designer and teacher who has been involved in a variety of needlework areas in her short career, including the fashion and entertainment worlds, creating pieces for the coronation of King Charles, and designing large outdoor banners. Lucy specializes in stump work and goldwork designs. In addition to teaching embroidery, she provides industry mentoring sessions to help others succeed in the needlework world. On June 14, Lucy will return to talk to us about Hand & Lock and the work she does at that prestigious institution.–Beth and Gary
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We hope you enjoy this week’s show with Lucy Martin. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.
Isabella Rosner’s new book, “Stitching Freedom: Embroidery & IncarcerationAn embroidered nutmeg, from the Witney Antiques collection.Isabella Rosner is one of those rare people who sets a course where no course exists and, with persistence and hard work, reaches her goals. In this week’s conversation, sponsored by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America and Sassy Jacks Stitchery, we learn how Isabella’s love of textile arts drove her all the way to earning a PhD from King’s College of London. Her thesis was “Women Professing Godliness with Good Works: British and American Quaker Women’s Art before Ackworth and Westtown, 1650-1800.” She is now a curator at the Royal School of Needlework, charged with digitizing the massive RSN collection (learn about that project in our March 2, 2024 show and visit the RSN website to enjoy the first 100 pieces from the collection), and Research Associate at Witney Antiques. In addition to that work, she has written a new book, “Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration,” available at the RSN website, and is the host of the Sew What? podcast, a periodic show that will provide you with extensive information about textile arts. Folks who love textile arts and the history behind them would do well to closely follow Isabella’s work as we’ve only just begun to learn from this talented lady.–Gary
Visit the EGA website at egausa.org and consider joining.This week’s sponsor is Sassy Jacks Stitchery at sassyjacksstitchery.com.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.
We hope you enjoy this week’s show with Isabella Rosner. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.
We’ve reached the week’s midpoint so we gathered to chat about needlework. Topics this week include the show we did May 5 about the RSN work for the Coronation, Beth’s work on Mary Ann Bickerton’s Tudor Rose pocket and the Woolen Needle wool appliqué class, Ariane Zurcher’s Dorset button eyeglass case, Kim’s May 1 Stitch Hour tour of the new Sassy Jacks shop, Beth’s participation in the Jeanette Douglas Sassy Jacks online class, pros and cons of live and online classes, Gary’s Elizabethan Treasures and Avlea Sea of Light plans, and building a pair of slate frame trestles. Sunday’s guest: Isabella Rosner.–Beth and Gary
The Queen’s robe of state, designed and stitched by the folks at the Royal School of Needlework.
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