Black Sheep Knitting Guild

Sandhill is teaming up with local yarn shop, The Dropped Stitch, for this 2nd annual event on Saturday, July 30, from 11-6. Free admission. The grounds will be filled with booths of fiber farmers and indie dyers. You can shop for yarn, fiber, or knitted/crocheted items, watch the demos, attend a workshop, or just shop and sip! For complete details go to: http://www.sandhillcranevineyards.com/pages/events.html If you're interested, email the Black Sheep at hotmail.

Some of the sheep are planning to go to the Michigan Fiber Festival in Allegan this August. You can find details at http://www.michiganfiberfestival.info/ The plan is to go 8/19 and spend the night. If you are interested, email Kathleen Hearne of Harriet Atlas [check you member roster]. Speaking of fiber, one of Kathleen's students wrote the following for school: The scarf’s lasting lesson One day Ms. Hearne decided to knit a scarf for her favorite niece as a wedding gift. Ms. Hearne woke up and decided that it was a great day to start this project. At 11am right after she had her normal breakfast of scrambled eggs and grits she went on a yarn crawl to find just the right yarn. She and her friends piled into the mini van where they traveled from store to store knitting, chatting, and finding the perfect yarn. Before they started their adventure they needed to get gas in the car. Using MapQuest they calculated that the total distance of the yarn crawl would be 155 miles. The mini

The picnic was held on Wed. June 8th at Firefighter's Park in Troy. The weather was fantastic, although it was a very hot day, we were in the shade and there was a nice breeze. Sally P., Wylie, Chris H., Rita P., Marie W. and Linda M. attended. The pot luck as usual was very good, and abundant. The Oakland Guild had fabulous door prizes, and all of us BSKGers but Sally ;-( went home with door prizes. There were beautiful yarns and knitting bags raffled off. Show and share - everyone had beautiful items to show. Thanks to the Oakland Guild for inviting us. We had a great time, and got to spend time getting to know the members of the Oakland Guild.

A gray morning with the threat of rain turned into a lovely afternoon to sit in Shain Park and knit.

The date for the open board meeting is June 14th at 7. Try to attend the Oakland Knitters Guild picnic or KIP day if you can. Details in the previous post.