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Needlepoint and Community
Written By: Luke Osteen | Issue: July - 2022
With the fruits of its talented members popping up all over the Plateau, the Sapphire Valley Chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild is looking for enthusiastic new members.
If you’ve been charmed by the whimsical needlepoint piece in the Children’s Room at Hudson Library or been comforted by the sudden appearance of a set of nine needlepoint designs at Highlands-Cashiers Hospital, then you’ve been touched by the artistry and creative energies of the members of the Sapphire Valley Chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild.“There are eight of us, and we meet on the second Thursday of the month (though we don’t meet in the winter months),” says Chapter Co-President Marsha Moxley. “We meet and share a bite to eat and share our ideas, then we go home and work on our projects. For instance, our library project took about a year.” Marsha says that the hospital project had been finished back in the 1990s, but changes in administration resulted in the panels being relegated to an out-of-the-way corner of the facility. HCA Hospital CEO Tom Neal was instrumental in rescuing the the panels from their ignominious fate and placing them once more in a position of prominence.If you’d like to join this group of friends and needlepoint enthusiasts, contact Marsha at [email protected].Marsha says you don’t have to be a needlepoint maven to be welcomed into the group. (Editor’s Note: She means it – she even invited me to join, and the last creative thing I did with my hands was using a hammer to gish (squish) a spider in the bathroom last Friday. Don’t blame me, it was looking at me in a scary manner.)
by Luke Osteen
