INSPIRING PEOPLE
An interview with... NeedleWorkPress
Charting the threads of time is a full-time job for Vickie LoPiccolo Jennett & Maegan Jennett of NeedleWorkPress, as they recreate historical samplers
Interview by Julian Odessa
The patterns can be bought in several countries.
“No two days are alike. Most weeks include a trip to the printer’s, a visit to our local needlework shop, and several stops at the post office.”
I magine 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?
VICKIE:
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 represents my husband’s and sons’ names: Niles, Willy, and Patrick. Patrick met Maegan when they were university students, and they married shortly after graduation. Maegan and I started working together in January 2011.