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Fiber Talk

Gary L. Parr

A twice-weekly podcast for Fiber Art hobbyists.

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Fleur Woods Puts Art on Ground Cloth

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2025/12/21

Our topic this week is needle art, our artist is Fleur Woods, and our sponsor is Avlea Folk Embroidery (avleafolkembroidery.com). Fleur started her career in the corporate arena to “see how the world works.” It worked by suppressing her creativity. She left the 9-to-5 world and dabbled in various art media as she tried to find what it was that allowed her to express what was in her mind. A conversation led her to needle and thread and she hasn’t quit since. Woods also just

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Wendy Moore’s Counted-Canvas Artwork

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2025/12/14

We’re joined this week by brilliant counted-canvas artist Wendy Moore. The show is made possible by CyberPointers (cyberpointers.org), the online chapter of ANG. The need to be creative transported Wendy from the science world to stage costume design. She moved to the Midwest and was exploring her love of Shakespeare when she was invited to an EGA meeting. That meeting opened the door to the counted-canvas-design career that we all enjoy today. In our conversation, we learn the details of

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 12-10-25

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2025/12/11

For our final Wednesday conversation, we decided to do a recap of 2025 by naming our favorite needlework artist(s) of the year, the top item in the list of things we learned from 141 shows, and the one topic that stuck with us. We all had the same #1 artist, but Cindy and Gary had to go with our 1a selections because Beth was too fast with the keyboard. If you have a favorite needleworker interview from the 42 Sunday shows we did, let us know in the comments. Same goes for something new you learned

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 11-12-25

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2025/11/12

The day after Tuesday has arrived and Cindy and Gary volunteered to spend some time talking about stitching. Our conversation focuses on new and upcoming Patreon shows and our Krista West conversation from Nov. 9. We spend most of the time talking about the two projects we plan to stitch from books we own. For Cindy, it’s the Celeste Fig by Christine Burton from the Inspirations book “Design Collective, Vol. 1.” For Gary, it’s Kevin the pheasant from Hazel Blomkamp’s “Crewel Birds” book. We also

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 10-29-25

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2025/10/29

We return from an unannounced hiatus (sorry Helen) and plow through a ton of subjects. The list includes Krista West’s Thank you sale (20% off everything at Avlea Folk Embroidery in November), an upcoming show with Krista on blocking out time, sleeping earbuds, Vikki Clayton/Hand-Dyed Fibers leftover/fragment bags, EGA virtual lectures, ANG’s new membership structure, a magnetic frame from PNB Making Memories to hold perf linen sheets, and a terrific visit to Stitchers Garden in

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America’s Tapestry: The Delaware Panel

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2025/10/12

The Embroiderers’ Guild of America (egausa.org) is sponsoring this week’s show about the America’s Tapestry Delaware project. In our June 7, 2025 show, we met Stefan Romero, creator of the America’s Tapestry project. The purpose of the project is to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with stitched panels from each of the 13 colonies that tell little-known stories about America’s formative days. To learn all of the details, listen to that initial show with Stefan. This week, we meet with Stefan

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 10-8-25

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2025/10/08

It appears that another Wednesday has arrived and our habit is to gather for some needlework chat. This week Cindy and Gary fired up the online recording system to talk about Sunday’s upcoming America’s Tapestry show, helping beginners without scaring them off (bite your tongue, a lot), the new set of needlepoint cards from Emma Homent of Markers Marks, a question from Debra Yerike about using wheat paste to protect the back of your projects (there will be more about this topic in upcoming shows),

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Indigo Dyeing and Sashiko with Suzanne Connors

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2025/10/05

Suzanne Connors of Aya Fiber Studio joins us this week to talk about her career practicing a variety of Japanese dyeing techniques. While Shibori and indigo dyeing is her go-to technique, she also practices Katazome, Rozome, Natural dyeing, and Eco printing among others. Suzanne also weaves and does beautiful Sashiko stitching. She conducts an extensive schedule of classes in her beautiful, fully equipped Florida studio and produces some amazing dyed fabrics. Make some time to visit her website to

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Regency Embroidery with Hilary Leslie

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2025/09/28

Embroidery artist Hilary Leslie, of HLeslie Design, joins us this week. Hilary combined her drawing addiction, a small bag of embroidery materials she picked up at a yard sale, and extra time during the pandemic to develop an embroidery design business that now offers a huge number of patterns, videos, and classes. In the five years she’s been designing embroidery art, she has also written a book, Unofficial Bridgerton Embroidery, that contains several projects inspired by the TV show. If you

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 9-24-25

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2025/09/24

We return in the middle of the week to converse about needlework. Our topics include new Patreon videos, Beth’s Pour ta Fete finish (work on a project 15 min. a day and you make significant progress), the Phoenix Band Sampler, taking a social-media break, and our sampler short lists. We each chose five-ish and ended up overlapping with two. If you’re looking for interesting samplers, particularly challenging ones, you might find them in our collection. If you listen to the audio podcast,

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Opus Anglicanum with Tanya Bentham

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2025/09/21

Our topic this week is Opus Anglicanum and our artist is Tanya Bentham. In our conversation, we learn how Tanya became attached to the art form/technique and why, the difference between pre-Black Death and post-Black Death techniques, and how she approaches color. Tanya reproduces original pieces and creates many of her own designs. Her own designs are a lot of fun so take time to explore them and enjoy Tanya’s sense of humor. Tanya also dyes all of her own wool for her kits so she can get the

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Making the Red Dress with Kirstie Macleod

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2025/09/14

Kirstie Macleod, creator of the Red Dress, returns this week to talk about the mechanics of creating the dress and growing the project. This week’s show is sponsored by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America at egausa.org. In our first conversation with Kirstie, we talked about how the project started, how it evolved, and the impact it had on people around the world, including Kirstie. You can see/hear that July 19, 2025 conversation at

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Bunny Bobbins Make Stitching Fun

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2025/08/31

Maker Dana Jones, of Selah Creative Company, is our guest this week. Dana and her laser cutter/engraver are a rather creative duo that produces a wide variety of items designed to enhance your hobbies. For needleworkers, those products are her animal thread bobbins. In addition to those bobbins, Dana has created a very useful travel bobbin and a unique sampler you stitch on wood. Our conversation also touches on Dana’s experience with counterfeiters (she won), and her Selah Retreats, which

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 8-27-25

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2025/08/27

We’ve located Wednesday so it’s time to chat. This week Beth asked the question: If you could only keep 10 projects what would they be? That simple question triggered a lot of stash searching and two lists that are really not all of the projects we would keep. Also, Gary cheated on his list. But Beth made a second list, so basically, we ignored the 10-project limitation. We also have a drawing this week for one of two Avlea Folk Fabric bookmark kits. Be sure to enter by midnight Eastern,

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Fiber Talk with Ekaterina Sinchinova

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2025/08/24

Embroidery artist Ekaterina (Kate) Sinchinova joins us this week for a show sponsored by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America at egausa.org. Kate describes herself as creating “realistic embroidery with a 3D effect.” What that means is she stitches outstanding pieces of landscape needleart using scenes near her home on the east coast. The depth and realism of her work is stunning. Why does she use thread instead of paint or other media? Because threads aren’t messy. We hope you

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Fiber Talk with Loetitia Gibier, Korry’s Little Shop

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2025/08/18

Our guest this week is gold work/stumpwork/cross stitch artist Loetitia Gibier of Korry’s Little Shop. The show is sponsored by Avlea Folk Embroidery at avleafolkembroidery.com. Please support our sponsors. Loetitia is a talented needlework artist who does a lot of stunning gold work, even though she doesn’t care for the gold color. In our conversation we learn how she developed her skills, how she approaches her design work, and what she means when Loetitia says she is more of a

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 8-13-25

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2025/08/13

The “W” day has arrived and Cindy and Gary gathered to talk about Iowa State Fair results (lots of ribbons) and becoming a Fiber Talk Patreon subscriber. We also discuss analyzing a design and determining whether to stitch all of it or to modify it to make it the design you want. Then we move on to the process of selecting threads/colors for a project and learn that, basically, Gary needs to sit down and organize his threads so he can assemble the needed colors without spending hours hunting for

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Fiber Talk with Emma Homent, The Makers Marks

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2025/08/10

Emma Homent of the Makers Marks joins us this week to talk about needlepoint, printed vs. painted canvas, the changing stitcher demographic, her design work and view of collaboration, and today’s wool threads. We also learn about her two needlepoint stitch books, her new project journal, and the two decks of stitch cards (one available and one upcoming) that have emerged from her books. Emma offers an extensive catalog of great designs and a fresh view of what makes enjoyable needlepoint. To

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Fiber Talk with Sue Reed II

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2025/07/27

It’s been a couple of years since we talked with Sue Reed and it was a real treat to have her return. The show is made possible by CyberPointers, the online chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild at cyberpointers.org. Sue Reed is one of the premier counted-canvas designers in the business and it was great fun to discuss the current state of counted-canvas designing/teaching and gain some insight into her design approach and what it’s like to prepare for classes and national seminars

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Fiber Talk Midweek Chat, 7-23-25

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2025/07/23

When Wednesday arrives we feel compelled to fire up the recording contraptions and talk about needlework. This week our topics include the Tour de Broderie, Fiber Talk Patreon content, Beth’s Pour ta Fete stitching, Lori Mann and Colorway Arts boxes, Beth’s Hapsburg lace needle book, Tim Buchheim and live classes, and supporting Stitchy Princess on Etsy and Olga Fishchuk Katrusya Studio on buymeacoffee.com. We also talk about card decks: The Palette Scout color cards, The Ultimate

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