White Mountain Woolen Magic

10/01/2026

Come and visit our WMWM rug ho**ers at the Deerfield Fair this Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There’s lots of beautiful hand hooked rugs on display -this may be our biggest collection to date. Hers a sneak leak of our 2026 Guild Challenge “Mug Mats”. 41 creative examples from our members.

09/11/2026

See you all in the morning for our first meeting of the season. 10 am @ St Paul’s United Methodist Church 335 Smyth Rd Manchester.
We will be collecting your Deerfield Fair entries Don’t forget your membership is due! Can’t wait to see everyone 😘

Special for tomorrow-Our guild has approx 20-ish skeins of the FABULOUS wool manufactured for dying. Will sell for $5 a skein. Available tomorrow at our meeting. Buy 1 or buy them all! No shipping, sorry.

09/06/2026

Here’s some photos from the “Meet me in Monadnock “ hook in last week. Great time with our friends! See you all at our meeting Saturday Don’t forget to bring your Deerfield Fair entries and mug s/mats for our challenge.

08/31/2026

Get those forms 📬 in ASAP! Due by September 10th.
We will be collecting rugs and mugs/mats at the Sept 12th meeting. Questions? Message us here 👍

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Are you planning to showcase your talents at the Fair this year? Whether you're entering giant veggies, stunning photography, or your latest arts and crafts projects, the deadline is fast approaching! All entries must be received by September 10th. For those keeping track, that is just 13 days away!

Don't wait until the last minute—head online today, download your entry form, and submit your paperwork to lock in your spot in the spotlight.

08/26/2026

Don't forget to get your entry forms sent in by September 10th for the Deerfield Fair! We will be collecting rugs and Mugs and mats (for our challenge exhibit) at the September 12th meeting-or drop off yourself -see web site for dates/times

Form Downloads The Deerfield Fair offers many opportunities for you to display your talents. The many departments listed on the right offer lots of display classes for you to enter your favorite creation - everything from photos & drawings/paintings to rugs and needlework to the best of your garden!...

08/08/2026

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.

07/18/2026

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 !

07/12/2026

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

06/26/2026

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!

06/17/2026

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.