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These slide shows include the hooked rugs and other fiber art displayed at our meetings from September 2023 to June 2024. 

September 2023

  • Donna Allen’s dog
  • Catherine Flowers’ mat
  • Debbie Power’s car mat
  • Tina Carrick’s mat with fringe
  • Ildi Tary’s thanksgiving mat
  • Ildi Tary’s bee skep
  • Tina Carrick’s dog using a special painting technique
  • Debbie Power’s dog using a special painting technique

October 2023

Show and Tell:

  • Catherine Flowers’ Quilting Best of Show at the Topsfield Fair
  • Stained glass mat by Anne Shadrake
  • Diane Hart’s welcome pillow
  • Diane Hart’s rug, a Happy DiFranza design
  • Jane Sittnick’s rug with braided trim

Theme of the month, geometric rugs:

  • Jeanie Crockett’s geometric rug
  • Jeanie Crockett’s geometric rug
  • Susan Russo’s Doodles geometric rug from Lincoln Farm Design
  • Tina Carrick’s geometric mat
  • Jeanie Crockett’s geometric rug
  • Jean Blanchard’s geometric design bag

November 2023

Show and tell

  • Diane Hart’s floral rug
  • Donna Allen’s monochromatic rug, a McGown pattern

Ildi Tary’s journey rugs and quilts

December 2023

Show and tell:

  • Susan Russo’s rug designed by Two Cats and dog Rug Hooking
  • Ildi Tary’s tree ornaments
  • Ildi Tary’s tree ornaments
  • Diane Detour’s cute rug

Theme of the month, rugs depicting homes:

  • Ildi Tary’s house rug, pattern by Sharon Smith
  • Tina Carrick shared this rug made to replicate a drawing her son had done at an earlier age
  • Jean Blanchard showed this rug that represents a historical home in Newbury.
  • Jeanie Crockett’s rug depicting a house
  • Jeanie Crockett’s rug depicting a house

January 2024

Show and Tell:

  • Diane Hart’s tree rug.
  • Diane Hart’s bunny rug.
  • Tina Carrick started this rug at Country Inn Rug School. It is inspired by Mola quilt designs.
  • Kathleen Dainton’s knitted frogs sitting around the campfire.
  • Kathleen Dainton’s crochet basket made with scrap yarns.
  • Ildi Tary demonstrated various standing wool techniques and other specialty stitches.

Theme of the month: Fond Family Memories

  • JoAnn Millen’s rug was done to meet an “over the door” challenge depicting the buggy ride through New York City with her new husband after their wedding
  • Donna Allen’s rug to celebrate her son’s wedding by depicting all of the couple’s favorite things.

February 2024

Show and Tell:

  • Alicia Mills’ snowman
  • Patty Connors’ Motif #1 from a kit
  • Catherine Flowers’ needle felted fungi

Theme of the month: Special Invitation Rugs – Animals

This theme brought the largest group of rugs thus far!

  • Diana Deroche’s hooking from a Camp Wool pattern
  • Andrea Gendron’s from her son’s drawing
  • Jean Blanchard hooked her cocker Spaniel Molly
  • Debbie Powers seat cushions
  • Joanne Millen from Patsy Becker designs
  • Tina Carrick’s pets
  • Jeanie Crockett’s cats
  • Jeanie Crockett
  • Jeanie Crockett’s whimsical animals
  • Jeanie Crockett’s whimsical animals

March 2023

Show and Tell

  • Jeanne Crockett’s flowery rug
  • Donna Allen’s pillow
  • Tina Carrick designed and hooked this rug with a variety of animals scattered about

Theme of the month: flowers in vases

  • Joanne Millen’s chicks surrounding the vase of flowers
  • Ildi Tary’s flowers from a Deanne Fitzpatrick pattern
  • Cynthia Dabroski’s rug, pattern by Tina Payton
  • Jean Blanchard’s rug from a Happy DiFranza pattern

Challenge Mats

  • Alicia Mills’ challenge mat
  • Audrey Hanna’s challenge mat
  • Carol Feldhusen’s challenge mat
  • Carol Stearns’ challenge mat
  • Debbie Power’s challenge mat
  • Diane Hart’s challenge mat
  • Donna Allen’s challenge mat
  • Jane Sittnick’s challenge mat
  • Jean Blanchard’s challenge mat
  • Mary O’Mara’s challenge mat
  • Tina Carrick’s challenge mat
  • Donna Allen’s ladybug for the bug challenge at the ATHA Hook-in on April 6
  • Ildi Tary’s ladybug for the bug challenge at the ATHA Hook-in on April 6

April 2024

 

  • Mary O’Mara’s ‘Mrs. Rabbit’ designed by Sharon Smith
  • Ildi Tary’s hooked ‘Crow in the Velvet Hat,’ a pattern by Michelle Palmer
  • Anne Shadrake’s challenge mat
  • Diane Detour’s challenge mat
  • Mary O’Mara’s ‘Mrs. Rabbit’ designed by Sharon Smith Ildi Tary’s hooked ‘Crow in the Velvet Hat,’ a pattern by Michelle Palmer Anne Shadrake’s challenge mat Diane Detour’s challenge mat Jane Sittnick’s hooked spiral rug, a pattern from Karen Kahle with a braided border
  • Kathleen Dainton’s knitted Emotional Support Chicken