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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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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.
 

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Fiber Talk with Cate Carter-Evans

Cate Carter-Evans of Infinite Twist.

Cate Carter-Evans is an American dyer, knitter, weaver, spinner, and seamstress recently transplanted to Singapore after almost eight years in China. Cate dyes yarn and fiber, designs knitting patterns, weaves on her great-grandmother’s antique floor loom, and spins on a wheel made by her Dad. She loves gardening, canning, preserving, and fermenting, and will put kimchi on almost anything. She shares her projects on Infinite Twist’s blog.
All her activities are over-seen by two unimpressed Shanghainese street cats and a three-legged dog of unknown provenance.

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A Cate Carter-Evans two-color brioche. Design uses Infinite Twist Umbra (65% camel down / 35% nylon) and the multi-strand cashmere blend purchased at the Cashmere Market in Shanghai that’s described in the show.

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We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Cate Carter-Evans. 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