April 1st is International Tatting Day

Grab your shuttles (or tatting needles) and celebrate the day

with chocolate and tatting.

  Check out the "Patterns by Members" tab of this blog for tatting (and other) patterns.

motif pattern from of the book Easy Tatting by Rozella F. Linden

Lace Bits

A Rose for Kalofer.

FREE sessions on April April 6 and

April 10

Taught by Joan Brash

for the OIDFA Flower Project via

via The Lace Museum.

Follow the links above and/or:

 OIDFA

Rose Pattern

 Shamrock pattern link HERE.

 

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89zNqQe55_8

Video link above.

Sprang w/Carol James

Royal School of Needlework

just added

25 new stitches - to make 500

stitches on their web site.

https://rsnstitchbank.org/

 FREE tatting pattern, Sun

 

March Meeting announcement:

The Lafayette Lacemakers Chapter

of the International Organization of Lace

will meet on

Saturday, March 8, 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/ ]

We will discuss the project for May.

Please bring show-n-tell and 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, 

Please feel free to join us. 

 Beadable Lace Bobbin Project in progress:  Spangles kit "Ivy Leaves"

http://www.spangles4beads.co.uk/Pages_Supplies/FrameSupplies_10_Bobbin.html

 Free shamrock pattern.   Link:

https://needlesnbeadsnsweetascanbe.com/free-four-leaf-clover-tatting-pattern/

Top Photograph:  Pattern is " Bloomin' Clover "

c.2024 C.Regnier

 

Lace Bits

CBS Sunday Morning

Weaving a Fascination for Lace

 Introduction to Sprang with Carol James.   

Instructor: Carol James

Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Duration:  90 minutes

Time: 7:00PM to 8:30PM EST

Location: Zoom

Cost: FREE, please pre-register below, or by emailing office@fabric-of-life.org

Experience Level: All are welcome.

 Link here:

https://www.fabric-of-life.org/event/february-26-2025-introduction-to-sprang-with-carol-james/?fbclid=IwY2xjawImQTRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZNb8OMwlMBbPy3wQeloct2tfg2G9ol22EajoBn-baV1XQTC-08G-Jhqcw_aem_2fyE2ociPrv-IwwVjaC97g

Lace Lecture:

International Organization of Lace

presents lecture, link here:

https://lacelectures.internationalorganizationoflace.org/

March 7-8, 2025

115 E. Water St.

Portland, Indiana USA

Link here:

https://fiberarts.visitjaycounty.com/

Link Here:

https://www.nelg.us/Weaving-threads-of-lace-history

Free tatting pattern

Link here:

https://needlesnbeadsnsweetascanbe.com/free-shining-sun-tatting-pattern/

Free tatting pattern

Link here:

https://needlesnbeadsnsweetascanbe.com/beaded-necklace-pendant-tatting-pattern/

 

meeting announcement

The Lafayette Lacemakers Chapter

of the International Organization of Lace

will meet on

Saturday, February 8, 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/ ]

Would you like to participate in a

collaborative project:

A Rose for Kalofer (OIDFA) Details in links below:

IOLI: Lace Challenge 11

https://www.oidfa.com/a-rose-for-kalofer/

------------------pattern for the tatted heart in top photograph:

Heart for the Holiday by Georgia Seitz