Greater Milwaukee Knitting Guild Bus to Stitches Midwest

The Greater Milwaukee Knitting Guild will be hosting a coach bus to Stitches Midwest 2015 at Schaumburg IL.

You can spending the day taking classes or shopping til you drop! For lunch you can bring your own food and drink or purchase it there.  There will be plenty of places to sit and take a break.

All this fun will be happening on Saturday, August 8.  

We leave the Hales Corners Park and Ride at 8:30am, arrive at Stitches at 10am when we will be met by Stitches staff with our discount for the $10 entrance tickets and goody bags.  We leave Stitches at 6:00pm and return to the Hales Corners Park and Ride at 7:30pm.

The cost is $35 roundtrip.  All monies must be received by Saturday, July 4.

You can email the Guild for more information at gmkg@prodigy.net or call Jackie at 414-351-2202.

We hope you join our Knitting, Crocheting, Spinning, Weaving, Etc.  Party Bus!

Prepare for the July 14 Meeting

Brown Bags will be accepted for exchange at the July Meeting.

Bring your Brown Bag with a skein or two of yarn to exchange

 with a fellow knitter. The brown bag will be turned in and distributed to 

another Guild member. Remember you will be getting a knitted item 

returned to you made up in this yarn that you put in your

bag. So please send along some yarn that you find a joy to use. 

No junk yarn. You will be getting this item returned to you. 

The Brown Bag exchange is an opportunity for you to  be the designer 

and knit an item from the yarn in the bag. You can add additional

yarn if you choose. You must bring the knitted item back in September. 

At the September meeting we will be having a show and tell 

with the Brown Bag items.

This has alway been a smashing success filled with lots of surprises.

June 9 Program

The Beauty of Fibers for All Seasons

Summer brings not only more light but also more choices in knitting fibers.

Barbara Chappell, fiber artist and owner of Fiberwood Studio 

will be here to show a variety of fibers that differ in their content, in how they

 are made and in their colors. Silk, linen, rayon, cotton, and blends -- 

how do they behave, how do they work up? She will

share the creative possibilities and lighter wear these 

fibers offer and give us the information we need for use and care. 

We are going way beyond the basic wool yarn we've all known since our youth

.

When you visit Barbara's shop on 92nd Street you will also see 

the creative artistry she and her staff bring to knitting. Barbara is a professor 

at Mount Mary University in the fashion department and also offers 

many classes in her Studio. She will bring many yarns and finished objects 

for you to see. Come early to browse and touch. Fibers are also for sale 

so come and enjoy.