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Knit for Fit with Anne-Marie Walkowicz Making a sweater is a time consuming and expensive process. We often choose a size, and hope it fits once the project is completed. When you have your measurements, how do you use them to make adjustments to your pattern so that your creation fits the way you want… Continue reading DKG Meeting Jan 20

DKG Meeting November 18th 2019 Arenda Holladay will be our instructor for the day. At the regular meetings Arenda will be teaching us how to make buttonholes. After the morning meeting she will be doing a mini workshop: Intarsia Mini Workshop November 18, 2019. $20 for members. $30 non members Bring with you: 3 contrasting… Continue reading DKG Meeting Monday November 18, 2019

September 16: June Cashmere with Amy Swanson, USA Operations Manager Amy will take us to Kyrgyzstan in her talk about Kyrgyzstan’s textile history, the recent discovery of highest quality cashmere goats, a peek at shepherd life in Kyrgyzstan, and the strides that June Cashmere founder Sy Belohlavek and his team are making toward the ethical… Continue reading DKG Meeting on September 16th 2019

Yarn shops are currently gearing up for the 2019 Crawl. This year’s crawl is happening August 2nd through the 11th and promises to be the best Crawl ever! So buy your passport, call your friends and yell “ROADTRIP!!!!”, as you hit the road!

Our annual picnic will be on Monday, June 17th. Please bring a covered dish and your knitting. Bob Wolff will be leading a tour of St. Mary Church at 11:30 am.

It’s not too late. Call Roggi McCord if you want to buy a ticket. This coming Sunday will be our 2nd Annual Stitch and Pitch with the Dayton Dragons. That’s June 2nd at 2 pm. As part of this current Dragons home stand, we wanted to make you aware of some very important – and… Continue reading 5 Dayton Dragons tickets for sale…

Two of our favorite DKG members have died. Elllie Gaines and Mary Hal Davis. Ellie and Mary Hal were at every DKG Retreat that I went to. Both of them have been an inspiration to me as a knitter. Ellie knitted a little sweater and gave me the pattern. Mary Hal taught me how to… Continue reading Will miss them…

This was a fantastic knitting guide retreat. We had the perfect guide in Margaret Radcliffe. Margaret really had an amazing way of presenting all the material the guild had asked for. On Friday after dinner she taught us how to work with variegated yarn. We learned various techniques to make variegated yarns look beautiful in… Continue reading 24th Annual Dayton Knitting Guide Retreat

Our Vendors at this event will be: Fiber & Fusion Studio The Yarn Shop Strings Attached Yarns Tippecanoe Weaver and Fiber Too Noah’s Landing

Bergamo Center is hosting the DKG Yarn Market this Friday and Saturday. The hours are 3 pm till 7 pm on Friday and 10 am till 6 pm on Saturday. It’s opened to the public. There will be 5 Vendors and Margaret Radcliffe in attendance. This is in conjunction with our weekend retreat featuring Margaret Radcliffe. Margaret is… Continue reading DKG YARN MARKET April 26th and 27th 2019