Needle Nook Celebrates 50 Years as Stitching Hub

Needle Nook, a beloved needlecraft shop founded in 1976, will honor its longevity with a festive March 20 celebration, exactly 50 years to the day since first opening its doors. The fete will feature special guests, exclusive yarn releases, stitching events, and programming acknowledging founder Arlene Jacobson and the generations of makers who called Needle Nook home.

“Needle Nook has always been about personal connections, the legacy my mother built,” notes Arlene’s daughter, DeAnne Jacobson, who now owns and manages the store.

Needle Nook will enhance its half-century year with numerous in-house events and participation in significant Atlanta community initiatives, underscoring its identity as a gathering space for Atlanta’s creative fiber community, serving makers of all skill levels, educating and supporting customers, and being part of citywide projects. Throughout the month of March, Needle Nook will host “50 Years, 25 Squares,” “Anniversary Yarn Bingo,” and other hands-on in-store events.

What began as a neighborhood yarn store, Needle Nook grew to include knitting, crocheting, and other fiber arts classes, as well as offering a variety of needlecraft tools. Over time, the shop became known as a welcoming hub for makers across generations from all parts of Atlanta, growing organically as the city expanded, and the community of fiber crafters increased. The colorful shop is well-stocked and displays samples of handmade clothing, accoutrements, and intricate needlepoint, and it proudly partners with Georgia Public Broadcasting for the Knitting for Neighbors charity, in which makers create handmade items for people in need.

When Arlene Jacobson, Needle Nook’s admired founder and lauded mistress of myriad needle crafts, passed away, her daughter, DeAnne Jacobson, who is herself a talented needle artist, assumed ownership and management of the business. “Fifty years is a testimony to Needle Nook’s role in Atlanta’s yarn arts community, but our longevity didn’t happen by accident. It’s because people show up week after week, year after year. This anniversary belongs to every person who has ever walked through our doors, the people who have gathered here for decades to learn, to create, to revive, and to get to know and befriend one another.

The community is invited to the Fifty-Year Celebration on Friday, March 20, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Needle Nook is located at 2165 Briarcliff Road, NE, 30329, in the Briarvista Shopping Center. For information about events, dates, and times, call the store at 404-325-0068.