Look for t-shirts, mugs, water bottles and much more!  All merchandise sales will help support new and exciting weekend programs and educational workshops for the Windy City Knitting Guild!

A special thank you from the Guild to Amy Moryl for organizing this effort!

The Windy City Knitting Guild is a membership organization which encourages and fosters knitting in the Chicago area. We currently have over 200 members.

Benefits of Membership

Your membership entitles you to receive our monthly Windy City Knitting Guild Newsletter, which some members feel is worth twice the price of dues! It is loaded with announcements about knitting events, book reviews, knitting website reviews, yarn store reviews from all over the United States, class and teacher reviews, knitting patterns, tips, hints facts and fun.

Many knit shops in the Chicago area give a 10% discount to Guild members.  By the time you purchase $200-250 worth of yarn, you’ll have recouped the price of the membership. Members also pay a reduced price for the fantastic workshops we sponsor. How great is that?!

How to Join Our Guild

1. Pay via Paypal on our website, or
2. Download the membership form, fill it out, and mail it with a check or money order to:

Dorothy Zuckert
Membership for WCKG
1700 Hinman Ave., Apt 4A
Evanston, IL 60201-4592

Make checks payable to the Windy City Knitting Guild.

If you would like more information about the guild before joining, please come meet us at one of our monthly meetings, or contact President, Joan Ambo at info@windycityknittingguild.com.

The Windy City Knitting Guild has received very generous donations from individuals in our community. And since the Guild fosters education in knitting and fiber, the board has decided to begin a loan program of the equipment donated. The Equipment Loan Program is available to WCKG members. If you are interested in participating in the loan program but are not a member, consider joining now!

Available for loan are a Kromski Fantasia spinning wheel, a yarn swift and ball winder, and a number of spinning DVDs and books. The yarn swift and ball winder will also be set up for use at monthly meetings.

Visit Equipment Loan Program in the Members section to learn more about the program and download forms.

Meet the amazing Maureen O’Wool!

Maureen O'Wool

This year, at the Midwest Fiber & Folk Art Fair we introduced our newest representative.  As you can see she is still developing, and already her personality is a bit different.

Ms. O’Wool will be coming to a meeting or two this summer, please feel free to contribute to her growth.

Maureen, like her sister Polly, will represent the Windy City Knitting Guild at many events.

We’ve arranged a great trip to the Michigan Fiber Festival Saturday, August 20th.  Seats are limited, so sign up now to make sure you don’t miss out!

Join us on our deluxe 55-passenger motor coach to the festival. We will spend the day at the Michigan County Fairgrounds in Allegan, Michigan. We leave the Sulzer Regional Library at 7am, spend the day at the festival and depart for Chicago at 6pm. Estimated time of return is 9:00 p.m. The cost is a flat price of $60.00 per person which includes lunch and admittance in the fairground.

Sign up now

One of the Midwest’s most popular and highly regarded celebrations of the arts, Midsummer Festival of the Arts draws approximately 20,000 visitors to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center grounds in Sheboygan, Wis., each year.

Submit your application today to be among the 135 artists from across the nation presenting works for purchase at this highly touted event. Extensive event marketing and word of mouth draw buyers from throughout Wisconsin and Illinois.

Artist amenities include:

• Cash awards totalling $3,000–winners also receive news release and photo for use in their local press
• Two complimentary tickets to the artist awards banquet
• Artist-only lines at food stations throughout the event
• Free boothsitting and lunch delivery services
• An image of each artist’s work featured on the Arts Center’s website

Call the Arts Center at 920-458-6144 or visit the website for more information. Click here to apply online.

We are thrilled with both our new logo and our new look, and I hope you will be thrilled to find our site easier to navigate.

Let us know what you think: info@windycityknittingguild.com

Thanks!

Benefits of Membership?

Your membership entitles you to receive our monthly Windy City Knitting Guild Newsletter, which some members feel is worth twice the price of dues! It is loaded with announcements about knitting events, book reviews, knitting website reviews, yarn store reviews from all over the United States, class and teacher reviews, knitting patterns, tips, hints facts and fun.  A sample issue of the newsletter is available here in PDF format.

Many knit shops in the Chicago area give a 10% discount to Guild members.  By the time you purchase $200-250 worth of yarn, you’ll have recouped the price of the membership.  Members also pay a reduced price for the fantastic workshops we sponsor.  How great is that?!

How to Join Our Guild

1. Pay via Paypal on our website, or
2. Please fill out and print the membership form and mail it with a check or money order to:

Dorothy Zuckert
Membership for WCKG
420 N. Virginia Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625

Make checks payable to the Windy City Knitting Guild.

If you would like more information about the guild before joining, please come meet us at one of our monthly meetings, or contact President, Joan Ambo at info@windycityknittingguild.com

There are many wonderful clubs out there, but some are very expensive, or there are limited spots available and you don’t get in, or you’re worried that you might get a kit that you’re not in love with, and then you might have to destash it.

What if you could be a part of a sock club where you knew you would get to knit with amazing yarns like Wollmeise, numma numma, Sanguine Gryphon Bugga, Tempted Hand Painted Yarns, Socks That Rock and more? What if that sock club didn’t cost you a penny? And what if you knew you’d have support to help you through tricky patterns and encouragement to finish that month’s pair of socks?

Are you interested? Then we invite you to join us for Year of Stash Socks – 2011! We all have some wonderful yarns in our stashes, but they’re just sitting there, waiting to be knit. We’ve tried the self-imposed sock club method, but after a couple of months we lose our motivation, get behind, and then give up. We believe YOSS is the solution. You’ll knit patterns we select with yarns from your stash, and have encouragement from new friends. At the end of 2011, you may have a smaller stash of luxury yarn, but you’ll have a grand stash of luxury socks and mittens.

The rules are simple:

1. Knit one or all of the socks/mittens of the month as determined by your friendly moderators. You have an entire month. (You can start on them at midnight on day one.)
2. Finish the pair during that month.
3. All yarn used must come from your stash (that’s the whole point!).
4. Post a photo on our Ravelry page when you’re done and tell us about it.
5. Since this group is dedicated to the Year of Stash Socks patterns, we kindly ask that you only share projects with the group that are knit from the monthly YOSS patterns. Thank you for your understanding! Your Friendly Mods reserve the right to delete projects from the Recently Shared Projects section that don’t meet this guideline without warning – sorry to have to emphasize this!

Go to Year of the Stash Socks Website or Link for Ravelry users

Lorna’s Laces Sale

Saturday, March 19, 2011
4229 N Honore St, Chicago, IL 60613

Sale will start at approximately 10:00 AM. As the previous sales, it will be on a first come first serve basis in groups of 20. We will have a sign-up sheet starting at 8:00 AM. Don’t worry; there is more than enough gorgeous yarn for everybody!

In order to get an estimate of the number of people attending, you must RSVP. Please email Joan Ambo, or phone 773-383-8031, or text me with your name and number attending.