Welcome to The Beijing Guild!

A knitting, crochet and crafts community.

Who We Are The Beijing Guild is an informal crafts group which welcomes people of all nationalities interested in knitting, crochet and other crafts, coming together to share their passion and to meet others.

What We Do The Beijing Guild hosts weekly sessions where knitters, crocheters and other crafters, meet new people, make new friends, exchange ideas and share their projects and expertise in a friendly sociable environment.

The Guild promotes teaching people how to knit or crochet and develops knitting projects to assist local charities in the work they do.

If you are looking for private knitting classes, please click here to request more information by sending an email.

When We Meet The Beijing Guild meets weekly and monthly at these times:

Every Tuesday from 1-4pm.
Every Thursday from 5:30 – 8:30pm.

Meetings are held at different locations within the 2nd and 3rd ring roads. The Guild also promotes meetings held elsewhere (eg Shunyi).

Would you like to hold a workshop ?
If so, send us your suggestion to contact@beijingguild.com
We are happy to assist with setting them up and publicizing these meetings on this website. Simply contact us via e-mail.

How To Join Us

To join The Beijing Guild and receive weekly updates with information about meeting locations and other events simply fill in the form below or send an email to contact@beijingguild.com.

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We are looking forward to meeting you!

How to Contribute The Beijing Guild accepts donations of the following kind for their charity work:

Squares 25 x 25 cm.
Any other hand knitted items (eg socks, scarves,. hats...)

It is appreciated if the item is labelled with the following information:

Name of knitter
Material used – any care instructions?
Size of baby/kids clothing if you know this information.

You can bring your finished items or squares at one of our weekly meetings on Tuesdays or Thursday evening.

Upcoming Meetings

To get the weekly invitation via e-mail, click here to join our mailing list.

Tuesday 22nd May Picnic Knitting Chaoyang Park
Tuesday 29th May Tube Station Gongti
Tuesday 5th of June Queens Cafe Sanlitun
Tuesday 12th June Switch Dongsishitiao

* Every Thursday Evening *

Nibbles & Knit !
For those who can not make it to the daytime knitting gathering we meet every Thursday from 5:30 - 8:30pm ! Bring your needle work and some finger food or drinks and have fun ! Want to know where we meet next Thursday ? Click here to contact Beijing Guild !

Special Events

Learn to knit for fun and Charity !

You are a truly beginner ? This is the workshop for you ! We offer a beginners Workshop during our regular meetings. You will learn basic knitting techniques while helping others. For 150 RMB, we provide nice colored yarn, different sized wooden needles and teach you at least 4 different patterns while knitting squares. You keep the needles and we keep your squares ! Hopefully we will have a lot of new beginners, knitting a bunch of squares to finish our first "beginners blanket" very soon. Everything goes to Charity ! Rsvp required

Sit & Knit and........ eat Pizza !
Tuesday 29th May at Tube Station.
Do you have a favorite Pizza place ?
Once a month we want to try out a
Pizza restaurant for lunch and knitting.
Recommendations are welcome !

Read a pattern with Jemma !
Tuesday 5th of June
Charts and abbreviations sounds like chinese to you ? After this workshop not anymore! Learning by doing a knitted Leaf shape helps you to understand and manage the mystery. Rsvp required.