Cheryl Roberts has been rug hooking and knitting, spinning and dyeing for many years.  She is a certified McGown Rug Hooking teacher and teaches from her home and the Florence Thomas Art School in West Jefferson.  She displays her work around the area and belongs to the Main Street Gallery cooperative and the Hands Gallery cooperative.  She is also a member of the Blue Ridge Artisan Guild in Wilkesboro, NC.  

Her work takes many hours as she often starts with a bolt of natural colored wool and dyes it to suit the rug hooking project she may be working on. She cuts these dyed pieces into strips to hook into her linen backing.  She may start with a natural fleece of wool or alpaca and cards it, spins it and dyes it to make yarn to knit into hats, scarves, shawls or mitts.  All of this takes many hours.  

​Cheryl lives in Creston, an undeveloped part of Ashe County which gives her color palette many greens, browns, reds and yellows.  Rug hooking is considered to be a Heritage Craft and Cheryl has won several North Carolina Regional Artist grants through the Ashe County Arts Center.