Mary Martin's Needlepoint Author:Mary Martin "This is Mary Martin as Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, about to sing "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy"--a great moment for Broadway, and for Mary Martin. But in this book she remembers South Pacific as the show during which she started her first piece of needlepoint--a 5-1/2 by 7-1/2-foot rung, which she finished two and a half years later i... more »n London while she was still playing in the same show. "Mary Martin's Needlepoint" recalls highlights of her life onstage and off, as she tells about making needlepoint for everyone from her children to Rodgers and Hammerstein, designing pieces for her homes in New York and Brazil, and working on it wherever career or private life has taken her--anyplace from Vietnam on a Far Eastern tour to freighter trips which are her favorite kind of vacation travel."« less
An entertainer by trade, Mary Martin loved to needlepoint. These are some of her projects and she helps you do them and in turn, learn to needlepoint. Traditional but still loved by many.