Final meet-up of the season just ahead!

Dear Guild members;
Our final guild meeting is coming up April 15. The session will be about spinning with fibres other than sheep wool.
So bring your samples of cashmere, angora, linen, etc. The more samples we have on hand to touch, smell, look at.... the better.
If you have a surplus of said fibres and would like to swap with someone else, I will have a scale available for measuring out amounts. Bring some extra plastic baggies and a marker.

I hope to see all you spinners. And the knitters are welcome to come and enjoy the fibres too!

 In this photo the three clear containers house angora ( bunny ) hair. Also the white fibre at top centre has some linen in it.

This is alpaca fibre from a friend's (also a guild member) animal. It is lovely to work with.

And this is a shot of my two Kromski spinning wheels. They no longer reside together. The upright went up to Canada and the big Norwegian stayed here. It's not that they didn't get along, I just wanted to have one excellent wheel at each home.

The Mason Knitting and Spinning Guild

Hello and Welcome to the blog of the Mason Knitting and Spinning Guild. This is a free association created by Jurate Gertzbein in November 2012. We began meeting right away, every two weeks, and have educational sessions each time we get together. So far I have been doing all the teaching and my hope is to pass on some of this to others. The topics have been alternating between a knitting topic and a spinning topic. We have over thirty members and are steadily growing. 

As of the winter of 2013-2014, the guild only meets November through to April. 

The guild is free to join and people who attend receive free instruction, free membership and free notes. I provide a loaner spinning wheel for a dollar a day to anyone who wants to rent it out and take it home. 

In the future I would like to be able to introduce weaving instruction as well, but first I need to find the space for this and some equipment.


The cotton dishcloth is an example of the project we did in the intarsia knitting class. And because today is Valentine's Day, how fitting that I declare how much I love our guild group!