Hooked Rug Show

Returning To Reed School

The 6th Annual Newtown Hooked Rug Show will be at Reed Intermediate School on Saturday, October 13, from 9:30 am to 3 pm. This year’s show promises plenty of returning favorites as well as something new.

The show will run from 9:30 am until 3 pm. Admission is $8 per person; lunch and refreshments will be available, and there is plenty of free parking.

For the first time this year, the show will offer a juried category entitled “Pushing the Limits: New Concepts in Rug Hooking.” Twenty-four submissions have already been accepted and judged by the fiber artists Denyse Schmidt, Missy Stevens and Liz Alpert Fay. The winner will be announced at the show, pieces will be on display, and a professionally-produced CD will be available for purchase.

There will be rug displays, 33 vendors, and a raffle. Vendors from across the United States will offer accessories, backing fabrics, books, braiding supplies, cutters, dyeing instruction, lap frames, hooking utensils, patterns, wool (hand-dyed pieces and bolt fabrics), etc. An afternoon raffle will award winning ticket-holders $25 gift certificates to show vendors.

The People’s Choice Award will also return this year. A non-juried display, visitors to the show are invited to hang their work at no charge. The winner in this category is selected by visitors’ votes on show day. A blue ribbon will be awarded to the winner and photo of their rug will be used for 2008 publicity.

Guest speaker this year will be the hooking artist and entrepreneur Meg Little. Also, hooking artist, teacher and writer Susan Feller will offer a three-hour workshop entitled “Manipulating Fibers for Dimensional Effects.”

Three well-known authors – Linda Rae Coughlin, Amy Oxford and Jessie A. Turbayne – will also be at the show, selling and/or signing copies of their new books.

Members of the Nutmeg chapter of ATHA will be working on-site all day.

Show proceeds will once again benefit Newtown Meeting House. For additional information the show’s organizers have created a website this year. For additional information visit   NewtownHookedRugShow.com.