March and April 2026 Edition 

Hello fiber artists!   I have been very delinquent regarding my blog duties.  So several editions will have to come out at once.

UPCOMING EVENTS: 

Guild Meeting: Meetings were held March 21 and April 18, 2026.

Retreats and Conferences:

    BUELLWOOD RETREAT: This retreat will be September 26 and 27, 2026 at the Marsin Center in the Hancock/Houghton Michigan area.  We will have classes and camaraderie!  It's a great time in a beautiful setting.   

SHOW AND TELL PHOTOS FEBRUARY MEETING 2026:

DISCLAIMER: I was not at this meeting.  Mary Brownell did a great job on pictures and commentary.  Any mistakes were mine.  Please forgive me for not having correct names etc.

Anita brought some goodies from her grandmother.

Annie brought some spinning, collages and a sweater

David showed a sampling of fiber he had woven for his class in June at the Marquette conference where he learned to sew his fabrics into things.

Gretchen brought a vest and some flowers.

Karen T displayed a flower, turtle, her dish towel, scarves and baskets.

Mary M brought a woven wallhanging and a ceramic elf.

Melissa L brought a sweater (viking) and an intarsia vest.

Olivia brought baskets.

Polly showed her mini sweaters for the centerpiece 

Jimalee showed her red hat.

Sean showed a variety of woven bands

Some lovely weaving from Vicky.

Esmerelda showed some flannel panels and some batik examples.

Zoe shared some yarn she had spun.

Mary B showed a scotland wool vest, a monarch scarf, blue purple, shetland shawl.

Dawn displayed a baby blanket.

Jen showed off some lovely embroidery

A lovely white mitten

Nate displayed his balls on a stick, some weaving and a dish towel

May and June 2026 Edition 

Hello fiber artists!   I have been very delinquent regarding my blog duties.  So several editions will have to come out at once.

UPCOMING EVENTS: 

Guild Meeting: Meetings were held May 16 and June 15, 2026.  Next meeting is Monday, July 20, 2026.

Retreats and Conferences:

BUELLWOOD RETREAT: This retreat will be September 26 and 27, 2026 at the Marsin Center in the Hancock/Houghton Michigan area.  We will have classes and camaraderie!  It's a great time in a beautiful setting.   

SHOW AND TELL PHOTOS FROM JUNE 2026 MEETING

Katherine displayed her socks.

Vicki brought her samples of double weaving

Sean brought his weaving from the MHL conference "Extreme Warp Makeover."

Phyllis showed us examples of towels that she wove.

Olivia brought some goodies

Nancy brought a sweater, a felted kit from Moy Mckay and a shawl that is assigned pooling.

Nate's rug won the rug challenge at MHL and he sent the pattern off to make swag!

Nate also dyed a guitar case.

Melissa Mattson showed us weaving a la Janet Phillips that she made while taking a zoom class.

Mary M brought her ceramic heads.

Kari brought a turkish spinner and some yarn that she made

Karen T showed a basket with diamonds, willow stars, eco printing on a birch basket, a cedar basket, her grandma's quilt and a shirt she found at a sale.

Karen M brought her kumihomo braider and the shoelaces she braided.

Gretchen brought some bangladeshi embroidery and quilt as well as a felted piece she made.

Ginger brought a butterfly block.

Denise displayed some socks, a sweater and some weaving she did in a class in Traverse City, MI

David brought in a jacket he made from cloth he wove.

Bonnie showed us her needle point and some weaving.

Anita brought in a flower.

Anita sharing.

PHOTOS FROM MAY 16, 2026 PAPER PIECING DEMONSTRATION

Phyllis showed her version of paper piecing.

Denise demonstrated and showed samples.

Annie demonstrated a different method and showed samples.