Picnic

On Wednesday, June 30 about 7 BSKG members attended a cross-guild picnic sponsored by the Oakland Guild at Firefighters Park in Troy. The weather was cool (hard to believe right now), and there was tons of great food. We had a show and share, and as usual, there were some beautiful items, including the gorgeous shawl, and the entrelac shawl pictured above. The Oakland Guild also had some fabulous door prizes - both Kim and Rita won something. A great time was had by all.

July Birthdays

Happy Birthday to our hot July Black Sheep: Sharon Hagen, Colleen Robbins, Joyce Crabtree, and Stacey Totzke. And many s'mores!

Picnic

Just a reminder, we have been invited to a "cross-guild" picnic by the Oakland Knitting Guild this Wednesday June 30th, 2010 from 4:00-9:00pm. Location is Fire Fighters Park in Troy which is on Square Lake between Crooks and Coolidge (it's big you can't miss it!) they have rented out the pavilion.

They ask that you bring a dish to pass, your own beverage and chair and of course knitting, spinning, show and share etc. (All paper products, cutlery and ice will be provided)

This will be a great opportunity to meet and spend time with other fiber lovers in our area, lots of new fibery friends! Hope to see you there :)

Stitch N' Pitch

Stitch N’ Pitch is coming!
Sunday Aug. 8th at 1:30
There will be a new twist this year – bring a (winter) hat and be entered to win a fabulous prize! The more hats, the more entries! The hats will be distributed to homeless veterans in the Metro Detroit Area.
This year there WILL be goodie bags.
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Check our Ravelry group discussion board for information on tickets, we will order as a group, so that we all sit together.

Hi BSKGrs!

This Tuesday is our First General “open to all” board meeting.
Consider this your invitation if seeing what the board does interests you. It is at the church at our usual meeting time (7:30pm), but not in our usual meeting space, we will be in classroom 1 & 2. (to the left when you come in).

June birthdays and a picnic

Happy Birthday to: Coralee Anderson, Linda Irvine, Kelley Kencik, Linda Lutomski, Kelley Andersen, Mary Moylan, Andrea Lafferty, Rachel Lawson, Barbara Murdock and Sarah Turner!

The Oakland Knitting Guild is sponsoring a Knitter's Picnic on Wednesday, June 30, from 4 to 9 at Fire Fighter's Park in Troy. Bring a dish to share, a beverage, a lawn chair, and knitting or spinning. Paper products, cutlery, and ice will be provided.

Retreat memories

Well, the retreat is over.

Another eagerly anticipated retreat has come and gone. This year, 35 people attended. We laughed, learned new techniques, got to know each other better, and overall had a fantastic time. The setting was nice, the woods and the lake were all that we had hoped for. Even the weather cooperated. The lodge was nice, rooms were more like dorm rooms, but we spent very little time in them. The common room was great – lots of comfy chairs and couches. The area for training was set up to suit our needs. The food was good, and the staff was very accommodating to special dietary needs.

Walks in the woods, a bonfire on the beach Saturday night, classes taught on the beach, kayaking (Tanya brought her kayaks), massages, and a member sale. Goodie bags and door prizes, oh my. What more could a knitter ask for?

We learned how to do mobius, entrelac, double knitting, magic loop, way too many to mention.

We did a bit of shopping in Grayling at Parrots Perch on the way home.

The sheep came along, to help us enjoy the weekend.

Here we are with our retreat SWAG. Fantastic hoodies with the BSKG logo!

The dining room was very rustic.

The sheep take a break from their busy day.

The common area was so comfortable. We had many great conversations here.

Harriet teaching cables w/o needles on Sun am.

Tanya and Merritt kayaking.

The beach was so calm. We had class here Sat afternoon, and the bonfire Sat evening.