Cheryl Bollenbach is a McGown certified instructor who began teaching classes in rug hooking in 2006. She taught nationally until 2025 when she retired from travel teaching. She is the current editor for ATHA magazine and continues to dye wool in her home studio, under the brand cdb Studios.

In addition to dyeing wool, Cheryl also designs her own rug hooking patterns, many of which can be found on our site. Here is one of Cheryl's hooked rugs, Creativity Goddess an original design with appliqué background, embroidered stars, and a dimensionally hooked figure.