5th Annual Spring Spin Fest

A day to enjoy fiber!
- classes: spinning, plying, felting, scouring wool, & more
- vendor sales
- spinning circle

Choose from a list of 1-hour classes taught by a variety of excellent instructors.. Two sessions will be offered in the morning and two in the afternoon.

Prefer to socialize instead of attend a class? Bring a wheel or spindle and join the all-day Spinning Circle.

Peruse the wares available for purchase including wheels, bobbins, carders, roving, fiber.

A list of instructors, class topics, and vendors will be posted on Facebook and Ravelry prior to the event.

One $45 registration fee covers the full day of classes, spinning circle, vendor area, prize drawing. Instructors may charge a small additional fee for in-class materials.

Registration & Orientation, 9:00-10:00
Classes & Spinning Circle, 10:00-5:00

Lunch break at noon. Bring a bag lunch or choose from a list of nearby dining establishments.

Via Zoom (Meeting ID: 884 9448 9865)

Please join us on Tuesday, June 16th at 7 PM for an update on the Guild operations, including Board Member / ballot information, an announcement from our President, Amy Hawley, some Service knitting updates, and the unveiling of our BIPOC amplification initiative.

This meeting will be hosted through Zoom. We’re new to virtual meetings, so we appreciate your patience and your feedback as we explore virtual meetings this summer!

Please join us at the end of the June meeting for a Socially Distant Show & Tell!
Share one item you’ve finished over the last couple months. You must sign up by 6:00pm on Tuesday, June 16th here. You will need to have your video enabled on the Zoom call in order to participate. If you’d like your item featured in a show and tell wrap-up on Ravelry after the meeting, please email Kathy (membershipmkg@gmail.com) a picture of it by June 16th.

Members of the MKG board meet to discuss Guild business.

Please join us on Tuesday, July 21st at 7 PM for a talk from Kyle Kunnecke entitled Making Good: Knitting for Charity.

Helping others seems at the very core of knitting and crochet. In this lecture, we will explore ways we can use our knitting and crochet talents to help others. Full of inspiration, this talk examines our limited time and budget and provides ways to build giving into our crafting routines

This meeting will be hosted through Zoom (see link below). We’ve really been enjoying our virtual meetings and it seems like you do too! We appreciate all feedback during this process and welcome suggestions as well.

Please join us at the end of the July meeting for a Socially Distant Show & Tell!

Share one item you’ve finished over the last couple months. You must sign up by noon on Tuesday, July 21st here. Please be prepared to either show your item or a picture of the item on the Zoom call. If you would like your item to be featured in a wrap-up on our website after the meeting send a picture to Kathy at membershipmkg@gmail.com, as well as, signing up at the link above.

We encourage you to join the Guild so we can continue to offer programs like these.

Here is the link and meeting ID. You will be placed in a waiting room & we will start letting people in at approximately 6:55pm. The meeting will start with Kyle's talk so make sure to be on time!

Minnesota Knitters Guild is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: July Member Meeting
Time: Jul 21, 2020 06:55 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85109447290

Meeting ID: 851 0944 7290

Many of you have been knitting for our partners while we've been apart and we are now ready to accept those donations.

Saturday, August 1st  9am- noon

Textile Center Parking Lot - behind the building

Pull into the lot and we will take the donation from your car.

Bring your knitted items for our charity partners (fingerless mitts, shawls, wraps, infant and children’s hats, baby blankets). All the details on this year's partners are here.

We will also be accepting yarn donations. Remember: only natural fibers or blends, in full skeins, with labels!

If you cannot make it to the Drop Off Event, you can mail your items to the Textile Center. 

Send donations to:

Minnesota Knitters' Guild

c/o Textile Center

3000 University Ave SE

Minneapolis, MN 55414

Members of the MKG board meet to discuss Guild business.

Please join us Tuesday, August 18th at 7:00pm for a talk by Gretchen Funk entitled “What Hand Knitters Can Do with a Knitting Machine”

In this talk Gretchen will fill you in on why and how she uses a home knitting machine along with her hand knitting to create “hybrid” knits, as this mode of combined process knitting gains popularity. No machine necessary to listen and find out how useful this machinery can be in aiding the creative hand knitter.

Gretchen Funk learned to hand knit from her dad when she was small, and has been teaching knitting for over 15 years. She knits lots of sweaters, and loves teaching and empowering knitters. Her classes at the Yarnery in St. Paul, Minnesota are a great place to solve problems and get inspired.

Gretchen is also an avid machine knitter, and loves combining hand and machine knitting to make hybrid knits. Every month you can find her at the Midwest Machine Knitters Collaborative meeting.

Gretchen’s designs are available on Ravelry, and in the books Wearwithall: Knits for Your Life, What Would Madam Defarge Knit?, and Knitting Sweaters from Around the World (as well as scarves, and socks).

We’ve really been enjoying our virtual meetings and it seems like you do too! We appreciate all feedback during this process and welcome suggestions as well.

 MEETING LOGISTICS:

We encourage you to join the Guild so we can continue to offer programs like these.