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Michele Micarelli, New Haven, Connecticut

Michele is a certified rug hooking teacher whose main objective is to unleash creativity She loves to teach and tell stories. She started rug hooking in 1991 because of her childhood memories of rugs her father hooked. She has been in several issues of Rug Hooking Magazine with articles that featured her dying skills and rugs made with imagination She was honored by The Green Mountain Guild in the “Strong Woman” show and has received the “Silver Hook Award” from the Newtown Historical Society Rug Show for her devotion to promoting fiber arts She was named “Hooker of the Year” by the Rug Hooking Museum of North America in Queensland, Nova Scotia where she is Director at large. Michele is delighted to be in Rug Hooking Magazine’s Hall of Fame www.michelemicarelli.com