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An interview with… NeedleWorkPress

Imagine your job is discovering and charting antique samplers, envisioning the person who originally stitched it centuries ago. Vickie LoPiccolo Jennett and Maegan Jennett of NeedleWorkPress spend their days doing just that!

How did NeedleWorkPress come to be? What’s the story of the coming together of you both?

NeedleWorkPress started in the 1990s when I began collecting and charting antique samplers here and there. As a journalist, I was fascinated by antique needlework and related history and wrote articles for several stitching magazines. The name NeedleWorkPress representsworking together in January 2011.

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