Guilds                                                                     

Below you will find a map of the State of Michigan and surrounding area that has been sectioned off into seven different areas - to more easily aide you in finding a particular guild under the map is a list by geographical area for each guild.  Below the geographical area is an alpha list of each guild that is a participating member of MLH.

Be sure to scroll down to see the individual listing of Guilds in Alpha order.

Area 1 - Upper Peninsula
Guilds: Buellwood Weavers, Country Spinners and Bridge Shuttlers, Delta Spinners, Yarnwinders Fiber Guild, and Spiderwoman Handspinners.

Area 2 - Northwestern Lower Peninsula
Guilds: AuSable-Manistee Fiber Guild, Nor'craft Weavers Guild, Lake Charlevoix Area Guild and Northland Weavers

Area 3 - North Central Lower Peninsula
Guilds: Friends of the Fleece, Genesee Valley Fiber, Midland FiberArts Guild

Area 4 - Southwestern Lower Peninsula
Guilds: Lakeshore Fiber Arts, Niles Handweavers Guild, Weavers Guild of Kalamazoo and Woodland Weavers and Spinners

Area 5 - South Central Lower Peninsula
Guilds: Complex Weavers (state-wide, not a guild), Greater Lansing Weavers Guild, Jackson Handweavers

Area 6 - Southeastern Lower Peninsula and Ohio
Guilds: Ann Arbor Fiberarts Guild, Black Sheep Weavers Fiber Guild, Black Swamp Spinners Guild of NW Ohio, Cross Borders Weavers, Detroit Handweavers and Spinners, Eastside Handweavers Guild, FinnWeavers Fiber Guild, Michigan Handspinners, Michigan Weavers Guild, Mill Race Weavers Guild, North Oakland Handweavers Guild, Toledo Area Weavers, Town & Country Weavers

Area 7 - Indiana
Guilds: Fort Wayne Weavers Guild

Area 8 - Northeastern Lower Peninsula
Guilds: Sunrise Spinning Guild (Alpena area) and Northeast Michigan Weavers Guild

The following is a list of each guild's MLH Guild Representative and any pertinent information they have provided including e-mail and websites.

Ann Arbor Fiberarts Guild
Guild Rep: Millie Danielson, 1000 Vesper, Ann Arbor, MI 48103                                                                                                                                                            Phone: 734-769-2055             email: milleed@umich.edu
Meets: 2nd monday Sept - May, 6:30pm. social time, 7pm meeting begins.
Sept.and October 2008 meeting at New Center Building, 1100 N. Main St., Ann Arbor.
Check AAFG website for November meeting location.
Webpage: annarborfiberartsguild.org                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Au Sable - Manistee Weavers
Guild Rep: Janet Gross, 818 Sumac Trail., Grayling, MI 49738                                                                                                                                                       Phone 989-344-0694            
Meets: 2nd Wednesday 10:00 AM, members' homes call for information

Black Sheep Weavers' Fiber Guild
Guild Rep: Mary Underwood 1219 Traver Rd, Ann Arbor, MI                                                                                                                                                                     Phone 734-662-7134          email: amoscoey@mac.com
Meets: Meetings are held the first Thursday of each month, September through May, except December 2008 and January 2009, which will be the second Thursday    Meetings are held at the Hartland Education Service Support Center’s Science Room, (the old Hartland High School) on M 59 1/3 mile west of Old U.S. 23. Meetings begin at 6:30 pm with time to socialize and display your fiber arts projects. The business meeting and programs begin at 7 pm and program at 8 pm.
Webpage: blacksheepweaversguild.com

Black Swamp Spinners Guild of NW Ohio
Guild Rep: Susan Cayton, 24477 Dixie Hwy, Perrysburg, Ohio                                                                                                                                                               Phone:  419-874-5633                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Meets 2nd Tuesday, September thru May, from 10:00 AM til 3:00 PM at the Wood County Historical Center & Museum I-75 & US R 6 or 13360 County Home Road, Bowling Green, Ohio. 43402                   
web page: www.blackswampspinners.org

Buelwood Weavers
Guild Rep: Jessica Speer, P.O. Box 362, Rockland, MI 4996                                                                                                                                                                  Phone 906-886-2672        email: speerj@jamadots.com
Meets: 3rd Monday 1:00 PM, Gloria Dei Church, Hancock, MI

Country Spinners and Bridge Shuttlers Weavers
Guild Rep: Sandra Spiewak, 720 S. Forest, Brimley, MI 49715
Phone 906-248 5408      email: sspiewak@up.net
Meets: 2nd Sunday 1:00 PM, various sites call for information

Cross Borders Weavers
Guild Rep: Cathy McCarthy   6886 Springbrook Ln, Kalamazzo, MI 49004                                                                                                                                              Phone 269-345-1796       email: mccarthykal123@aol.com                                                                                                                                                                    Meets: 2nd Tuesday 10:00 AM, Members' homes, call or e-mail for information 

Delta Spinners
Guild Rep: Alice Koivisto, E. 4999 State Hwy M 35, Escanaba, MI 49829                                                                                                                                              Phone 906-789-0772       email: akoivisto@chartermi.net

Detroit Metro Spinning, Weaving and Fiber Arts Guild
Guild Rep: Michelle Romig, 43304 Chester Drive, Sterling Heights, MI 48314                                                                                                                                    Phone 586-803-1397      email: christopromig@sbcglobal.net                                                                                                                                                              Meets: 2nd Friday of the month at 10:00 A.M.  Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Royal Oak, MI                                                                                                Spinners meet in members homes on 3rd Saturday at 10:00 AM                                                                

Eastside Handweavers Guild
Guild Rep: .Sue Ellison, 1635 Ford Ct. Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236                                                                                                                                              email: info@eastsidehandweavers.org                                                                                                                                                                  Website:eastsidehandweavers.org                                                                                                                                                                                                              Meets: 3rd Monday 7:00 PM - St. Clair Shores Adult Education facility - 23055 Masonic, Saint Clair Shores, MI 48082

Fort Wayne Weavers Guild
Guild Rep: Joetta Bopp, 7032 Sweetbrier, Fort Wayne, IN 48614                                                                                                                                                            Phone 260-672-8294      email: jbopp4@comcast.net                                                                                                                                                                              Meets: 1st Wednesday 7:00 PM, Aldersgate United Methodist Church, Fort Wayne

Friends of the Fleece
Guild Rep: Carole Lentz, 2345 Greening Rd., Applegate, MI 48401                                                                                                                                                       Phone 810-622-9443          email: lentzcb@aol.com                                                                                                                                                                                  Meets 2nd Monday 10:00 AM, Members' homes

Genessee Valley Weavers
Guild Rep: Joetta Brady, 3152 Stratford St., Flint, MI 48504                                                                                                                                                                      Phone 810-234-3862         email: joettaweaver@aol.com

Greater Lansing Weavers Guild
Guild Rep: Leslie Johnson, 2721 S. Michigan Rd., Eaton Rapids, MI 48827                                                                                                                                         Phone 517-663-0357         email: johns149@anr.msu.edu                                                                                                                                                                     Meets 2nd Tuesday  7:00 PM, (September thru June)                                                                                                                                                                          Location: Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road, East Lansing, MI.

Jackson Handweavers Guild 
Guild Rep: Jan Sheely, P.O. Box 27 Hudson, MI 49247                                                                                                                                                                                 email: jsheely123@yahoo.com
Meets: 2nd Thursday 7:00 PM, Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI

Lake Charlevoix Area Weavers Guild
Guild Rep: Diane Stzrelinski, 517 N. Wilson Rd., Boyne City, MI 49712
Phone 213-582-5577           email: eddis@triton.net
Meets: Last Wednesday of the month (check on location and time)

Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild
Guild Rep: Jennifer Gould, 435 Woodburn St. SW, Byron Center, MI 49315
Phone 616-878-1526    email: jgould1526@esagelink.com 
Meets 1st Wednesday 7:00 PM, Herrick Library, Holland, MI

Michigan Handspinners
Guild Rep: Kenneth Allen, 33567 Michele, Livonia, MI 48150                                                                                                                                                                 Phone 734-427-6268, email: rallen7468@aol.com                                                                                                                                                                                  Meets: 1st Thursday 10:00 AM, Farmington Hills Library, Farmington Hills, MI

Michigan Weavers Guild 
Guild Rep: Loretta Oliver, 885 Dursley Rd, 21820 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304                                                                                                                                         Web site: michiganweaversguild.org 
Meets: 3rd Thursday 12:00 Noon, Farmington Library, Farmington

Midland FiberArts Guild
Guild Rep: Nancy Grant, 5613 Tiffany Lane, Midland, MI 48642                                                                                                                                                               Phone 989-631-1968 email: fornax2b@chartermi.net                                                                                                                                                                             Meets: 4th Tuesday 9:30 AM, Trinity Lutheran Church, Midland, MI

Mill Race Weavers Guild
Guild Rep: Ken Allen, 33567 Michele, Livonia, MI 48642                                                                                                                                                                          Phone 734-427-6268        email: rallen7468@aol.com   
Meets 3rd Tuesday 7:30 PM, Millrace Historical Village, Northville, MI

Niles Handweavers Guild
Guild Rep: Midge Lewis, 1100 Monroe Blvd., South Haven, MI 49090                                                                                                                                                              Phone 616-637-5104       email: larmidgelewis@verizon.net   
Meets: 1st Wednesday 10:00 AM, 13988 Range Line Road, Buchanan, MI 

Nor'craft Weavers Guild
Guild Rep: Ann Pettigrew - 1810 N. Jebavy Dr. Ludington, MI  231-845-6615                                                                                                                  
Meets: 3 times a year in a members' home - contact for date and location

North East Michigan Weavers Guild
Guild Rep: Marion Cook Jagst, Sunflower  Garden Studio, 1208 Old Washington, Alpena, MI 49707                                                                                                       Phone: 989-356-9261  email: jsbach@teacher.com                                                                                                                                                                                Meets: 2nd Tuesdays 10:00 AM   Sunflower Garden Studio, September thru June.

North Oakland Weavers
Guild Rep: Maria Shelton, 2337 Arizona Ct., Rochester Hills, MI 48309                                                                                                                                                 Phone 248-651-9649

Northland Weavers 
Guild Rep: Marty Fox, 8733 Timbers Trail, Traverse City, MI 48684                                                                                                                                                         Phone 616-946-5790
Meets: 3rd Thursday 7:00 PM, call for information

Spiderwoman Handspinners
Guild Rep: Ginnie Killough                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Phone 906-226-8353

Sunrise Spinning Guild
Guild Rep: Phyllis Mayhew, 4921 North Mio Road, Rose City, MI 48654                                                                                                                                                Phone 989-685-2489           email: kritterkeeper@m33access.com  
Meets: 2nd Tuesday 10:00 AM, Mio Church of God, Mio

Toledo Area Weavers
Guild Rep: Arthur Westrick, 6801 Corduroy Rd, Oregon, Ohio 43560                                                                                                                                                       Meets: 1st Tuesday  7:00 PM  Toledo Botanical Gardens, Toledo, OH

Town & Country Weavers 
Guild Rep: Kathleen Laycock, 3004 McKinley, Dearborn, MI 48124                                                                                                                                                        Phone 313-277-5096    e-mail: klaycock@peoplepc.com
Call or e-mail for meeting information

Weavers Guild of Kalamazoo
Guild Rep: Jack Taylor, 21820 Waldron, Farmington Hills, MI 48336                                                                                                                                                     Phone 248-478-1255            email: jacketaylor@twmi.rr.com                                                                                                                                                                    Meets: 2nd Monday 7:00 PM, Portage Senior Center, Portage, MI                                                                                                                                                          Webpage: weaversguildofkalamazoo.org                                                                                                                        

Woodland Weavers & Spinners 
Guild Rep: Cathy McCarthy 6886 Springbrook, Kalamazoo, MI 49004                                                                                                                                                        Website: woodlandweaversandspinners.com 
Meets: 1st Monday 7:00 PM at Trinity Congregational Church, 2725 4 Mile Rd. NW, Grand Rapids, 49504.

Yarnwinders Fiber Guild
Guild Rep: Patty Beyer, 766 Lakewood, Marquette, MI 49855                                                                                                                                                                    Phone 906-249-4502        email: yarnwinder98@yahoo.com  
Meets: 2nd Thursday at  6:30 PM, Marquette Art Center, Marquette, MI

For information or questions please contact:

info@mlhguild.org