White Mountain Woolen Magic

Successful day demonstrating at the League of NH Craftsmen Fair. Our WMWM hooking ambassadors chatted with over 300 visitors to our booth. The heat was tolerable (note the ice cream tent right next door!) Big thanks to our volunteers for helping today.

Our next featured ho**er, Rachael Noyes! You can meet Rachael at her hook in Tuesday, September 1, 2026 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM in Dublin, NH Registration form in the photos or message us for a printable copy.

The large house , hooked with yarn in 1995, was my first ever piece .
My mother-in-law ,Celina ,taught me . She was born and brought up in Cheticamp on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
Cheticamp is well known for their hooked mats .
Celina and her mother were good friends with Elizabeth LaFort , well known Canadian ho**er .

I don’t know which was the better deal … learning how to hook or marrying Celina’s son Jack .😃

I hook often with a local group in Manchester, attend the WMWM monthly meetings and co-host the ATHA Bedford hook-in in April.
And now hoping to organize an annual Hook-In in Dublin NH this September .

I so enjoy traveling to hook-ins and retreats.

I still relish visiting Cape Breton with my hooking friends …..keeping the art of hooking alive !

Here’s a fabulous rug hooked by WMWM member Judy Mitchell. Can you believe she’s new to the hooking universe?

Want to show off your work? Message us here to be our next “Featured Hooker”

I realized I wanted some rugs for my house, based on various rugs seen at the Hobbiton location in New Zealand, so I knew I had to learn how to hook some. I went to the Sheep & Wool festival in 2025 specifically to meet up with WMWM and learn how to do it! After a few very small projects to learn technique, I started in on my first actual rug: 4' in diameter. That's a big rug. So I started tracing the design that a friend had created on her computer (based on a photo from New Zealand) in early Dec of 2025, and since I have a lot of weekly zooms where I need something to do with my hands and Guild meetings and hook-ins, by late June I had finished my rug and met a bunch of wonderful new friends.

Now I'm taking a break from big rugs to make a mug-rug, then it's on to a 30"x 48" hearth rug. yeah...my thumb is sore from the hooking.

-Judy Mitchell

Great local hooked rug show! We have many McGown teachers in our WMWM Guild and currently have 2 😍 members enrolled in the workshop. Check out the first comment for more info on teacher certification. See you there!

Our WMWM Ambassadors had a beautiful day at Sanborn Mills Farm sharing their love for rug hooking. Our “Learn to hook” kits continue to be popular with our guests.

Come and see our WMWM Rug Hooking Ambassadors at Sanborn Mills Farm this Saturday! We will be in Fifield Hall with the NH Spinners Fiber fun for all!

Bring your bags to our big wool blow out tomorrow. 🎉😍🎉 It’s our last meeting for the summer☀️
Looking forward to September-it will be here before you know -come and hook with Rachael and friends in beautiful Dublin NH. See her at the meeting tomorrow if you have questions.

Excited to see our WMWM members Saturday, June 6th at our last meeting before summer break. We will be talking cutters with Pam Bartlett Red Horse Rugs and selling our donated wool
🎉 (and other hooking surprises) 🎉
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BIG THANKS! to our WMWM volunteers today for the Sheep and Wool Show at the Deerfield Fair grounds. We had a cold, soggy day but sharing our love for rug hooking warmed us. Lots of our learn to hook kits went home with our new fiber friends.