The hiatus is behind us and we’re back on schedule with a midweek chat. This week Beth and Gary discuss an upcoming trip to celebrate the life of Cindy’s mother, Dee Hill, and enjoy a lecture and workshop with Kathy Andrews. We also talk about our Not One More Thing adventure and Jenifer’s policing efforts, […]

This week we’re talking about passementerie art with Elizabeth Ashdown. The show is sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery. Typically, when passementerie is discussed, the focus is on decorative trimming such as tassels, braids, and fringes. This time, we are taking the discussion to a whole new level because Elizabeth combines passementerie techniques, weaving, and thread […]

We’ve found the middle of the week and Cindy and Gary have gathered to talk about signing needlework, early stitching on Jane Turner and Gary, saving old/vintage techniques, bobbin lace, how our needlework will be viewed many years from now, if we could talk with the girls that made the samplers we stitch today, Gary’s […]

Our subject this week is reproduction samplers, specifically those produced by our guest, Rae Niles of Red Barn Samplers. Sassy Jacks Stitchery is sponsoring this week’s show and Kim’s shop is your source for Rae’s charts and the linen and thread you need to stitch them. In our conversation, we learn about the red barn […]

This week’s guest is temari artist Jen Weber of the Clever Bunny Studio. The show is sponsored by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America at egausa.org. Jen Weber is a Shihan (certified teacher) of the Japanese Temari Association who has received numerous awards for her design work. While she does a good deal of temari design […]

It’s Wednesday so that means it’s time for some midweek chatting. This week’s topics include Swedish Death Cleaning, our efforts to go a year without buying new needlework items, the Jane Turner project, how we prep linen for new projects, and Edna Sanabia’s question about why samplers always seem to be cross-stitch based. Join us […]

This week, in a show sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery, we talk with Lori Pengelly of Pansy Patch Quilts and Stitchery. Lori is a needleworker, cross stitch designer, quilter, quilt designer, wool appliqué artist, combines needlework with her quilt designs, does hand quilting, owns a long-arm quilter and uses it for her own designs as […]

Our short hiatus is over and we’re back in action with a Midweek Chat. This week, Cindy and Gary talk about mental health and needlework, Gary and Beth and their hopeless stitch-from-stash effort, a Dritz storage box for perle cotton balls, Painters threads, Debbie Rowley’s mermaid design, Gay Rogers’ Drawn Thread Sampler sale, and the […]

Wednesday has arrived and we’re chatting. Topics include our May 14 mental health and needlework show, EGA National Seminar registration changes, summer stitching time, traveling projects, the Gay Ann Rogers whitework sampler sale, stitching muscle memory, and our June 1, Not One More Thing attempt to go an entire year without buying new projects and […]

May is Mental Health Month and it’s important to discuss the subject at all levels to raise awareness and and encourage people in need to seek professional help. This week, in a show sponsored by Sassy Jacks Stitchery, Kathy Andrews, of The Unbroken Thread, joins Beth and Gary to explore the many aspects of mental […]