Margaret C. Whiting

She ad Miller co-founded the Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework, where she contributed her skills as a designer and teacher, and provided leadership for the organization.

[3] She and Ellen Miller both studied at the National Academy of Design, and in the summer of 1884, they were students of Robert Crannell Minor, part of the Barbizon school of painters.

After seeing examples of this embroidery at the Memorial Hall Museum and pieces in the possession of families in the area, she and Ellen Miller started to document designs they saw.

[13] Later in life, Whiting had difficulty with her eyesight and with rheumatism in her fingers, and was not able to continue working with fine threads in delicate embroidery designs.

[14] The Society was able to continue during the First World War, despite shortages of materials, time to embroider, and orders, but in 1926 Whiting announced its disbanding.