Wetumpka has been in the national spotlight recently thanks to the exposure that Hometown Takeover brought to this city on the river. This national spotlight has also brought a lot of attention to a group of local quilters, the Thread My Needle Club.

"They were on HGTV when Wetumpka had their hometown makeover a few months ago, and it got good publicity from it," Winfred Wise with the Lucille Wise Memorial Foundation said.