Annual Chapter Dues $10

 

It is time to Renew your Membership.

July 2025 - June 2026

Annual Dues are $10.00.

We Welcome new members.

Lafayette Lacemakers, Inc.,  is open to people interested in any aspect of laceand lacemaking.  We extend our invitation to you to become better acquainted with lace.

Lafayette Lacemakers provides support + resources for new lacemakers.  

Becoming a member of the lace group 

will not only put you in touch with other lace makers, 

but keep you up-to-date on what is happening in the lace world.

Please contact 

Membership Chair

with comments/questions

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         Email Carolyn at lacedobes (at) aol (dot) com.

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The Lafayette Lacemakers Chapter

of the International Organization of Lace

meet monthly on the Second Saturday, 

January thru September, and November.

 at 9:00 a.m.

Location:

The Arts Federation - TAF 

638 North Street 

Lafayette, IN USA 47901

765.423.2787

 

 https://theartsfederation.org/

Please enter the building through the side door that faces the alley, and use the parking lot that's between the alley and 5th street.
[https://theartsfederation.org/ ]
Programs at these meetings include beggining lace making, sharing ideas on techniques, planning hands-on workshops, lace identification, and studying types of laces
and their place in fashion + history.

Guests are welcome to attend twomeetings before joining our chapter.

June Meeting Announcement

 

The Lafayette Lacemakers Chapter

of the International Organization of Lace

will meet on

Saturday, June 14, 2025

9:00 a.m. - 12 noon.

Location:

The Arts Federation - TAF 

638 North Street 

Lafayette, IN USA 47901

765.423.2787

 

 https://theartsfederation.org/

Please enter the building through the side door that faces the alley, and use the parking lot that's between the alley and 5th street.
https://theartsfederation.org/ 

Please bring show-n-tell and feel free to bring a project to work on.   Members are encouraged to share lace news, books, magazines, and ideas.

 Guests are always welcome. If you are interested in lace, 

or have met some of our members demonstrating in public, 

feel free to join us.

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Tentative Schedule for the remainder of 2025:

June: Lace In (bring a project)

workshop + feast planning

July: Teneriffe Lace kits

(https://teneriffelacekits.com/index.php)

 *see below

Aug: Materials preparation for 

September workshop

Sept: Beginning Bobbin Lace workshop

 + finalize feast planning

October - NO CHAPTER MEETING

October 11-12: Feast of the Hunters' Moon

Demonstrate Lace making

Nov: Continue Bobbin Lace from September workshop, 

last chapter meeting of 2025

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*Photograph of teneriffe kit for meeting:

Traditional Teneriffe Lace Patterns.

c.2019 Heirloom Arts Joan Brash

Kit includes custom loom, needle, fiber, + four patterns/instructions.

https://teneriffelacekits.com/

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Photograph at the top of post:

Teneriffe Lace Sunflower (kit) c.2020 Heirloom Arts

Kit and Instruction:  Joan Brash

https://teneriffelacekits.com/

Lace Bits

 Revised     12 June 2025 and    19 June 2025   

 June 5, 2025

OIDFA Spain

 June 6-7, 2025

Link here: https://www.hoosierhillsfiberfestival.com/

 https://thehaan.org/

The Haan Museum

   Night and Day Lace Marathon

Recorded sessions available for ONE YEAR.   Begins june 21, 2025.
https://the-lace-museum-shop.myshopify.com/collections/night-and-day-a-lace-marathon

SOL LACE DAY with PARAGUAY will be hosted by ZOOM, on Saturday, June 21st.

USA/Los Angeles (PDT) 6:00am - 6:00am

USA/NYC (EDT) - 9:00am - 9:00am

UPDATE -----

Link to the event:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86868024568...

Meeting code / meeting code:

868 6802 4568

Password / password / password: 442382

Don't forget to download the Zoom app for this meeting!. / Don't forget to download the Zoom app for this meeting! / Don't forget to download the Zoom app for this meeting

[Close to the date, 72 hours previous, the link to the virtual event will be available in our social media: Facebook ELIZABETH HORTA CORREA or NHANDUTI DE ATIBAIA and Instagram @rendatenerife]

June 21, 2025

https://theartsfederation.org/

 

Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1003829889635732

https://www.tattingcorner.com/

https://tattingcorner.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=63&products_id=10871

The Tatting Corner Tat Days

July 10-12, 2025

https://tattingcorner.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=63&products_id=10871

Tippecanoe Co. 4H Fair

July 18-26, 2025

Details:

https://www.homeofpurdue.com/events/annual-events-and-festivals/tippecanoe-county-4-h-fair/

August 3-8, 2025

Dallas, TX

Lace Contest, Lace Display,

Classes, Vendors, Events on-line:

https://convention2025.internationalorganizationoflace.org/

https://www.oidfa.com/

Classes 11-14 August 2025

Tour 19-23 August 2025

Details:

21st OIDFA Congress 2025

September 11-14, 2025

Details:

https://www.palmettotatters.org/palmetto-tat-days

PTG Tat Days 2025
Rhapsody in Tatting
Ridgecrest Conference Center

Ridgecrest, NC  28770

Finger Lakes 

Lace Guild Lace Days 2025

Registration open:

https://www.fingerlakeslaceguild.org/laceday

News:   fiber arts group.   Meets in Bloomington. 

This group meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month from 3 - 4:30 p.m., excluding holidays and museum closures. The group will meet in the Roehm Family Art-making Studio, located inside the Simpson Center for Education on the 2nd floor of the Eskenazi Museum of Art.

https://events.iu.edu/artmuseum/event/1926179-common-threads

Facebook link. https://events.iu.edu/artmuseum/event/1926179-common-threads

lace bits

 https://thelacemuseum.org/marathon/

August 3-8, 2025

Dallas, TX

Lace Contest, Lace Display,

Classes, Vendors, Events on-line:

https://convention2025.internationalorganizationoflace.org/

https://www.oidfa.com/

Classes 11-14 August 2025

Tour 19-23 August 2025

Details:

21st OIDFA Congress 2025

SOL LACE DAY with PARAGUAY will be hosted by ZOOM, on Saturday, June 21st.

USA/Los Angeles (PDT) 6:00am - 6:00am

USA/NYC (EDT) - 9:00am - 9:00am

Close to the date, 72 hours previous, the link to the virtual event will be available in our social media: Facebook ELIZABETH HORTA CORREA or NHANDUTI DE ATIBAIA and Instagram @rendatenerife

 June 6-7, 2025

Link here: https://www.hoosierhillsfiberfestival.com/

May 24–25, 2025

Link here: https://www.greatlakesfibershow.org/

 

Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1003829889635732

May Meeting Announcement:

 (Example of set-up for virtual education with computer and cell phone.)

The Lafayette Lacemakers Chapter

of the International Organization of Lace

will meet on

Saturday, May 10, 2025

9:00 a.m. - 12 noon.

Location:

The Arts Federation - TAF 

638 North Street 

Lafayette, IN USA 47901

765.423.2787

 

 https://theartsfederation.org/

Please enter the building through the side door that faces the alley, and use the parking lot that's between the alley and 5th street.
https://theartsfederation.org/ 

Please bring show-n-tell and feel free to bring a project to work on.   Members are encouraged to share lace news, books, magazines, and ideas.

 Guests are always welcome. If you are interested in lace, 

or have met some of our members demonstrating in public, 

feel free to join us.

Our May meeting + program will include:

---free available-to-the-public program Sep 13, 2025 

at TAF to learn bobbin lace; 

1-2 sessions (morning and afternoon),

---participation in the Feast of the Hunters' Moon 

Oct 11-12, 2025,

and 

---virtual education discussion re. 'how-to' details

about attending an on-line/zoom class.

---time permitting, will have a Rose in-progress and answer questions re. the pattern -- sent out to members via email on April 14th -- for:

A Rose for Kalofer

Community Lace Project

for the 2025 OIDFA Congress in

Kalofer & Karlovo, Bulgaris.

Design by M.Merce Rovira i Regas,

Associacio de puntaires de les Comarques de Girona

 OIDFA

Rose Pattern

This is also the IOLI

#11 Lace Challenge.

https://lacechallenge.internationalorganizationoflace.org/lace-challenge/lace-challenge-11