TOPSHAM — “Winters’ Work: Hooked Rugs, 2010-2013” by Anne Cox is on view at Maine Fiberarts, 13 Main Street. The public is invited to see these colorful, nature-themed wool rugs through April 27. A reception will be held from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, April 7.

Maine Fiberarts will host a Hook-In from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, April 12. Members of the Midcoast Rug Hookers, members of Maine Fiberarts, and others will be on hand to demonstrate this traditional handcraft, and members of the public are invited to see this display.

At this year’s Hook-In, for one day only, rug hookers will bring works in progress, completed samples, wool and yarn scraps, tools, hooking stands, and baskets of show-and-tell. Members of the public are invited to join in and spend the day hooking or simply watch and learn more about this historic craft.

Since 2000, Maine Fiberarts has been showing the work of talented Maine fiber artists in solo shows that change every two or three months. For more details and for a visual preview of the current exhibition, visit www.mainefiberarts.org or call 207-721-0678.

Anne Cox lives and works in Tenants Harbor where, along with co-owner Julie Wortman, she maintains Hedgerow Designs, a perennial and landscape design garden business. Cox has a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Michigan and has been designing, installing and maintaining gardens and landscapes in midcoast Maine since 1997. She also makes imaginative rustic furniture.

In 2006, Wortman traveled to Nova Scotia and met rug hooking notable Deanne Fitzpatrick. She purchased a hooking kit with supplies to get started, but it was Cox who found interest in the kit. Ever since, during the cold winters in Maine and when the gardens sleep, Cox has been hooking. Her themes involve polypods, hay bales, sunrises and sunsets, and the beauty of the Maine landscape. Her large piece “Look,” a work that measures almost eight feet across, won the 2012 Viewers’ Choice Award at the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild Show at Shelburne Museum in Vermont.

Cox creates her own designs and dyes most of the wool herself. The 12 works on view at Maine Fiberarts represent work completed in just three winters. Her talk on April 7 will offer insights into her design process and is sure to be of special interest to rug hookers, enthusiasts and collectors.