Inspiration from the magical island of Nantucket inspired claire to keep alive the original Claire Murray's Nantucket Needeworks Designs

  
Nantucket Lifestyle inspired Claire Murray to purchase the original Nantucket Needleworks
Sankay Light has inspired so many of Claire Murray's needlepoint designs, hand hooked rugs and counted cross stitch designs
Rose-covered cottages are pictured is so many of the Nantucket Needleworks Designs
Cobblestone streets line with hydrangea are the inspiration for so many of Claire Murrays Nantucket Needleworks Designs
Pictured: Claire Murray relaxing on Nantucket Island after purchasing the Nantucket Needleworks.
"I traded skyscrapers for rose-covered cottages, the Empire State Building for Sankaty Light, and an island surrounded by bridges for an island accessible by boat or small plane. While much of my work today takes me back to New York, Nantucket is where it all began..."
 
As soon as the ferry pulls away people begin to wave.
  Waving goodbye as the ferry to Nantucket pulls away
And wave they do until the tiny harbor is only a distant hint of colors.
 
The journey itself is a destination where you’ll watch for fishing boats and lobster traps. Adventure fills your soul and anticipation begins to swell.
 
It was these waters in days of old where Nantucket whalers’ boats were tossed about during the capture. Such a scene would later become the inspiration for Claire Murray’s whimsical Nantucket Sleigh Ride rug, the namesake of this ancient spectacle so engrained in Nantucket’s history.
Nantucket Sleighride when whalers' boats were tossed about during the capture  

Pictured at left,
Nantucket Sleigh Ride
May be purchased finished.

May be purchased as a kit

Today at Nantucket Whaling Museum tribute is paid to this awesome history. Upon entry stands a magnificent forty-six foot skeleton of a sperm whale that washed ashore on New Year’s Day in 1998.
Nantucket Whaling Museum

A little girl takes in the wonder of it all atop a Claire Murray Whale rug

 
Nantucket history is as much a part of
Claire Murray as she is of its lifestyle. Here in this museum is her new Nantucket Whale 9x12 hand hooked rug. Thar She Blows! Pictured above Claire Murray finished rug. Whales 7x9
Can be found at ClaireMurray.com

The island comes into view and beholds the quaintest little cottage precariously perched on pilings over the water.

 
Weathered shingles perched above the harbor are such inspiration for Claire's Nantucket Needleworks Designs.
Peru, as it stands today, was rebuilt after The Perfect Storm of 1991 and most recently the 1,100-square-foot cottage has been renovated in keeping with its heritage and is home to
Claire Murray rugs throughout. 		 
   
At the entrance of the harbor Brant Point lighthouse majestically stands guard.  

Brant Point Lighthouse provides the inspiration for so many of Nantucket Needleworks needlepoint kits, rug kits and counted cross stitch kits

Although no longer in service the original structure built in 1746 was the second lighthouse built in America. For centuries it guided Nantucket’s whaling ships to safety.

This impressive historical image has inspired many of Claire’s designs.

Pictured at right
Claire Murray's Mermaid rug.
May be purchased finished. 

May be purchased as a kit.

“For me, so many years ago, Nantucket’s welcome was all it promised to be. At my first glimpse of the island flowers and picket fences with mounds of blue hydrangea, charm-filled cottages with weathered shingles and climbing roses rising up into the cornflower blue skies, my life was changed forever.” Says Claire Murray.  
Rose covered cottages and trellis covered with beach roses create a magical backdrop agains the cornflower blue sky  
 
From the moment you step onto her cobblestone streets you can feel the magic of this place.

Nantucket is not simply a destination…. it’s a lifestyle.