Diane Burgess has been hooking rugs since 1998; teaching beginner and intermediate classes as well as wool dyeing workshops since 1998 throughout Vermont and for the Access to CVU High School evening program as well as for the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild 2004 to 2016 at the” Hooked in The Mountains Rug Show” to be held at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT in November 2022. Member of the Green Rug Hooking Guild since 1998.