Remembering... Celebration XXIV!

Well, here we are at 2014. Not so hard to "remember" these artists—their work is still so fresh in our minds! Even the titles instantly evoke images from last year's issue. We did note that fully a third of the artists in the book were from Canada, but one thing 25 years of Celebration has taught us—rug hooking is a caring, inventive, and exciting community of textile artists that spans the globe. The only real borders? Those finishes around the edges that hold our rugs together! Here's to the artists of Celebration XXIV!

Diane Ayles - Ever So Serene
Martha Beals - Hereke
Marilyn Becker - Marry Me, Mary
Barbie Beck-Wilczek - Tennescott Four Dog Rug--Bernese Mountain Dogs
Jasmine Benjamin - American Fancy
Janet Boates - Harvest Fair
Anne Bond - Jerico
Connie Bradley - Sunflowers
Starr Burgess - St. Nicholas with Cardinal
Betty Calvert - Low Tide at Blue Rocks
Judy Carter - Sapphire
Natasha Chan Kepper - Fruit Basket
Grace Collette - Rescue of LaBella Julia
Elissa Thomas Crouch - Tangled
Judith Ann Davies - Cherwell
April DeConick - Mary Magdalene
Erika DeCree - Eagle
Lyle Drier - Angel Oak
Gunda Gamble - February
Karen Gaskin - December Snows
Louise Royka Gleason - Kyoto
Susan Grant - Buckingham
Jan Grose - Grandma
Suzanne Gunn - Ivy's Mona Lisa Smile
Laurie Hannan - Plato Rupert 3119
Catherine McGeehin Heilferty - Redbreast Sunfish
Fumiyo Heinig - Stanley at Sauble Beach
Jo Ann Hendrix - Crazy Horse Quilt II
Jill Hicks - Square Harmony
Donna Hrkman - Blue Mermaiden
Sue-Anne Jay - Cow Lady Sampler
Carla Jensen - Jack Rides
Trish Johnson - Barn Lust
Kim Kaelin - Carla Jensen
Juliana Kapusta - Night Life in the Country
Sondra Kellar - Birds and Birdhouses
Tatiana Knodel - Geese in Flight
Carol Koerner - Facescape in Three Parts
Jean Ann Kuntz - Tiffany Landscape
Susan LaCount - Toast and Honey
Rachelle LeBlanc - The Gathering
Kate LeMasters - Turkish Primitive
Helen B. Lynch - Cape Shore Crewel
Karen Maddox - Birds and Birdhouses
Jody Madsen - My Tree of Life
Liz Marino - Martellotti Family Picnic Circa 1928
Arleen Mauger - Bahamian Sea Life
Kathie Meyers - Jeff: "Son" and Shadows in Sepia Tone
Karen Miller - Beyond Swallowtail
Cyndra Mogayzel - Biscuits Lefévre-Utile
Claire V. Molson - Parabolas
Phyllis Monjar - Mimbres
Beth Morris - Birches
Cynthia Norwood - Worm Geometric
Roland C. Nunn - Yesteryear
Maureen Page - The Boy with Far Away Eyes
Wendy Powell - The Waiting Game
Katy Powell - Hansel and Gretel
Rosalie H. Powell - Paisley Hex
Dana Psoinas - The Green Woman
Nancy Ecklund Qualls - Fab 5
Lil Quanz - In the Air
Lynn Roth - Nostalgia
Sunny Runnells - The Red Cedar by Emily Carr
Sharon Saknit - Me Squared
Pat Shafer - Lessons from Our Son
Elizabeth Singleton-Boltik - Walking the Dog
Liz Smith - Marg's Garden
Christine Smith - Storm Coming
Arlette Spencer - Looking Down from Delphi
Stangeland - Carousel
Stephanie Stokes - Charlotte in the Lupines
Barbara Stone - The Stone Fractal
Bobbi Tower - The Intruder
Dianne Warren - Northern Flicker
Carol Waugh - Mother
Mary Jean Whitelaw - Rescue Me
Jan Winter - KaBloom