We usually meet in person on the 3rd Saturday of each month at Murton Park, Murton Lane, York YO19 5UF. See below for the dates and schedule.

We also hold weekly Zoom meetings every Wednesday evening at 19.00. New members are very welcome to join us: to obtain a meeting link please e-mail secretary@yorks-guild-wsd.org.uk and explain that you would like to join a meeting as a visitor. All Zoom meetings are being recorded and will be made available in our Members’ Area of the website to watch later, should you not be able to attend on the given date. See below for the dates of confirmed speakers. Further updates to the schedule will be circulated by email.

Occasional workshops with outside tutors are held in addition to the skill share days, see below, and the guild has an annual residential weekend, usually towards the end of May at Cober Hill, Scarborough.

For skill share meetings, please bring along whatever you are currently working on. During the course of the skill share session/day, while you work on your own project, there is plenty of opportunity to learn from fellow guild members as they work on their own projects too.

PLEASE NOTE: The schedules are subject to change at any time.

2025 meeting dates at Murton Park

Doors open at 10.00 am. Meetings start at 10.30 am. Speakers usually about 1.00 pm.

Saturday 18 January 2025 – Guild meeting: skill share, followed by guest speaker Helen Phillips, Himalayan artisans, training women in knitting, weaving and spinning, plus talk on textile craft holidays to India

Saturday 15 February 2025 – Guild meeting: skill share, plus workshop on Aran crochet, and spinning wheel dating

Saturday 15 March 2025 – Guild meeting: formal meeting and AGM, followed by guest speaker Shaun Smith, Harcourt Rare Breeds, talking about the Down breeds

Saturday 12 April 2025 – Guild meeting: skill share, plus talk by Cherry Hardy, one fleece, three yarns

Saturday 17 May 2025 – Guild meeting: formal meeting, followed by guest speaker Deborah Wheeler, Whitchurch Silk Mill

Saturday 21 June 2025 – Guild meeting: skill share

Saturday 19 July 2025 – Guild meeting: formal meeting, followed by guest speaker Rachael Prest, Cat and Sparrow

Saturday 16 August 2025 – Guild meeting: skill share, plus dyeing workshop and nettle fibre workshop

Saturday 20 September 2025 – Guild meeting: skill share, plus a nettle fibre workshop, and World Wide Spin in Public Day

Saturday 18 October 2025 – Guild meeting: formal meeting, followed by a guest speaker Lucy Adlington, Four Red Sweaters: a story of knitwear in Auschwitz

Saturday 15 November 2025 – Guild meeting: skill share

Saturday 6 December 2025 – Guild meeting: skill share, Festive gathering

Zoom schedule

Apart from occasional guest speakers, the weekly Wednesday Zoom schedule tends to follow the pattern:

1st and 5th Wednesday: Spin and preparation

2nd Wednesday: Weaving

3rd Wednesday: Knit and crochet

4th Wednesday: Dyeing

Workshops and other events

Events planned for 2025 include:

30 May–2 June Cober Hill Residential Weekend

4–6 October 65th Anniversary Exhibition, Poppleton Tithe Barn

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