If you have time, join us at the Urbandale Library on Friday September 23 for Charity knit & chat. We meet from 10-noon in the conference room. Good time to work on your purple hats.

Also this week, C & M Acres is having its annual Alpaca Days in Maxwell. Saturday and Sunday September 24 & 25 from 10-3 daily. Come knit with the Guild, tour the mill, buy items and, of course, see the alpaca. Always a fun time.

Come to the Urbandale library between 10 and noon to join us for knitting. We meet in the conference room.  Hope to see you there!

Join us on Tuesday September 6 for our monthly meeting. This month we will share our fair entries. Bring all your fair entries, winners or not, for show and tell. We love to see each others works and winnings. If you know the pattern and yarn used, share that also! Judges comments are also (sometimes) nice to hear.

We will do a program on how to do various M1. So maybe bring some practice yarn and needles to try out a new skill!

Hope to see you there.

Get out to the Iowa State Fair to see all the knitting winners in the Varied industries building. Our members will be displaying their entries at the September Guild meeting if you miss out on the Fair.

Also this Thursday, August 18 is Third Thursday knit and chat at gateway café from 6-8.

Join us on Tuesday July 5 for our monthly meeting. We welcome a new board, will discuss entries to the State Fair and learn some stretchy bind offs.

Remember to sign up to enter in the fair by July 1 on their website: https://www.iowastatefairentry.org

Homework and what to bring for the program is:
Two swatches, each 25 stitches wide and a couple
of inches long. Use any weight of yarn and
appropriate size needles.
Yarn needle of appropriate size.

Swatch one: Knit in stockinette. After knitting
desired number of rows, leave an end that's about 4
times the width of your swatch and break off yarn.

Swatch two: Knit in K1P1 ribbing. After knitting
desired number of rows, leave yarn attached.

We'll present a knitting technique at each meeting.
Let us know if there is a particular technique you’d
like to have demonstrated. Let us know if there is a
particular technique you’d like to have
demonstrated.

Reminder it is once again time to pay your guild dues. $15.00. bring to next meeting or mail to Kelly.

Online registration is closed but there is still room available in all classes. Contact Kelly at jkbronsink@msn.com

Book signing at Beaverdale Books on Friday June 10 at 6 p.m. free!

Margaret Radcliffe will be here to do 4 classes over 2 days plus a book signing!

Friday, June 10, 2016 classes:
9 a.m. Intro to Ouroboros Moebius
1:30 p.m. Dreaded Disasters

Saturday, June 11, 2016 classes:
9 a.m. Lazy Knitter's Guild to Pattern Stitches
1:30 p.m. Helix Knitting

Here is a link to the class descriptions and homework:


About Margaret:
A knitter for 50 years, a designer for 35, and a teacher for almost 25, Margaret Radcliffe is the author of the bestselling Knitting Answer Book (Storey Publishing, 2005), The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques (Storey Publishing, 2008), and Circular Knitting Workshop (another bestseller, Storey, 2012). Margaret's newest book The Knowledgeable Knitter (also from Storey) was released in September 2014
Margaret’s books explore knitting techniques in a depth well beyond what’s usually presented and do so in a way that makes both the techniques and their appropriate uses clear to readers. As a designer, her specialty is rewarding garments that look complicated but rely on the simplest knitting techniques. As a publisher, she focuses on patterns that help knitters learn new techniques and improve their skills. As a teacher, Margaret enthusiastically teaches everything from beginning knitting to garment design, and is acclaimed for her ability to help all knitters to become independent and creative.


Margaret's many teaching venues have included the John C. Campbell Folk School, The Knitting Guild Association (TKGA), Stitches Expos, The National Needlearts Association (TNNA), The Madrona Fiberarts Winter Retreat, Webs, KnittaPalooza, cruise ships and windjammers, and shops and fiber guilds across the U.S. and into Candada.


Like many knitters, Margaret has a varied background. She has degrees in Medieval Studies and English Literature, has been a teacher, auditor, programmer, business executive, research administrator, dancer and editor.

As usual we have a lot going on in March. We have the knit & Chats: second and fourth Fridays, second Monday and third Thursday. The Art Center is having a community knitting circle and Fiberpalooza happens. Check out the calendar for info.

The March meeting will be on Tuesday the first from 7-9. We will find out about the June workshops with Margaret Radcliffe, her book signing and we be able to register and pay for classes. Bring your checkbook! This should be a fun weekend of classes and I'm sure we will all learn a new trick or two.

The evenings program will be a visit from Polly Prodberg, the owner of Knitting Next Door in Ankeny.

Join other Guild members at the Urbandale Library on Friday February 26. We meet in the conference room from 10-noon. The emphasis is on charity knitting.

Reminder that the March Guild meeting is next Tuesday March 1 from 7-9. Hope you can make it!

Join other Guild members for a knit & chat at Gateway Market Café on Thursday February 18 from 6-8.

On Friday, February 12, we will meet (weather permitting) anytime after 9:30 a.m. in the conference room to Knit and Chat. Hope to see you there.

Then on Saturday February 13 the Des Moines Art Center is sponsoring a Community Knitting Circle which is an open knitting session. Meet in the Lobby from noon-3. Knitters are asked to bring their own materials.

Join us on Tuesday February 2 at 7 p.m. for our monthly guild meeting. For this month's program  Shauneen will share her experiences at the Vogue Knitting Live! Event in New York last month.

Our upcoming annual knitting retreat will be held on Saturday February 6 at the Wildwood Lodge 11431 Forest Avenue, Clive, IA. from 9-4. We will have members teaching you how to shadow knit at 9:30, add beads to knitting with a crochet hook at 10:30 and Cat Bordhi's moebius cast-on at 2. We will also have a crochet table for those who want to learn to crochet or begin the Happypotamus crochet-along.  This is a pot luck with the guild board members providing soup. There is a $10 cost payable at the event.

Hope to see you at these events. Check the calendar for other February happenings.

Join us Monday January 11 from 10-noon for a Knit & Chat at the Franklin Library.  Take some time for yourself to relax, chat with friends and knit.  Hope to see you there.

I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday Season. Now that the gift making is done, why not start a project for yourself? This Friday morning January 8, we will be meeting at the Urbandale Library weather permitting. The Conference room is ours anytime after 9:30 a.m. until noon. Hope to see you there!

Begin the new year by joining us for the January meeting on Tuesday the 5th at 7 p.m.  This month Deana will explore polymer clay for making unique buttons for your knitting.