We strive to cultivate an environment which promotes friendships, creativity, education and encouragement to anyone interested in pursuing this traditional art form. We look for opportunities to demonstrate rug hooking to our community and do so 2-3 times a year. At our meetings we have demonstrations, group projects and challenges, and Show & Tell of our current or completed projects. Since 2005 we have held a yearly 2 1/2 day winter workshop at Caraway Conference Center in Asheboro, NC, and invite the finest teachers in the rug hooking community to instruct us.
Chapter History
The Hornets’ Nest Rug Hookers became an ATHA chapter in 1999, and we hosted the ATHA Biennial in Charlotte, NC in 2003. In 1996 Charlotte rug hookers found each other through the efforts of Virginia Hall, now deceased, who contacted ATHA for the names and contact information of any members living in the Charlotte area. Virginia then called everyone on that list and invited them to a luncheon at her house in honor of her friend Anne Asheworth of Green Mountain Rugs in Vermont. Anne was passing through Charlotte on her way to teach in Atlanta. Only a few of us at that luncheon knew each other, but we bonded over our love of rug hooking and plans were made to get together monthly to hook.
