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- Printed needlepoint canvases and kits
Amy Shippy grew up on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, and came to Savannah in 1992 to study graphic design at SCAD. She has called it home ever since. Needlepoint started as her own hobby before it grew into Blue Poppy Designs, and every design begins as original artwork, with the coastal Lowcountry eye she credits to growing up by the water.
Each kit is made and assembled in her Savannah studio, and they're built for beginners. The design is printed right on an edge-taped canvas, so there's no chart to follow, nothing to count and no stretcher bars needed. The kits at ModernTribe come with the thread, needles, a threader, scissors, a practice scrap of canvas and instructions for the continental stitch.
For ModernTribe she brings that easy-entry approach to Jewish life: a menorah kit, a dreidel kit and a Mah Jongg "Crack Dot Bam" canvas for the friend who runs the weekly game. Amy is a serial entrepreneur who also co-founded Marché de Macarons, and she won the 2019 BizPitch Hilton Head competition.
Good to know
- Made inKits made and assembled in her Savannah studio
- Shops inDowntown Savannah and downtown Charleston
- WinnerBizPitch Hilton Head, 2019 (Amy Shippy)
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