April meeting announcement

The Lafayette Lacemakers Chapter

of the International Organization of Lace

will meet on

Saturday, April 12, 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 be finalizing the free workshop

for the public.

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. 

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Photograph above:

Bobbin Lace pattern (in progress) - LINK HERE.

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

Follow the links above and/or:

 OIDFA

Rose Pattern

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 ,

April 10 , April 12 .

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
 

Lace Bits

 

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/

 Sunny Sunflower tatting pattern.

https://needlesnbeadsnsweetascanbe.com/free-sunny-sunflower-tatting-pattern/

  https://needlesnbeadsnsweetascanbe.com/free-and-easy-sunflower-tatting-pattern/

 Virtual Education - Link.

Celebrate the longest (or shortest) day of the year – June 21, 2025 – by lacing all through the night, and day, and night…

10 classes … 30 straight hours … $60

• Western Hemisphere – Friday evening (June 20) through Saturday night (June 21)
• Europe – Early Saturday (June 21) morning through Sunday morning (June 22)
• Australia – Saturday morning (June 21) through Sunday evening (June 22)

Details available in late February. Registration open from late March through June 19.

Scheduled Instructors

• Josée Poupart, Canada – a bobbin sprint within a marathon
• Elizabeth Kurella, USA – history – Lace of the Sun King
• Louise West, England – contemporary bobbin lace
• Elizabeth Peterson, USA – Bruges bobbin lace
• Allie Marguccio, USA – Idrija bobbin lace
• Theresa Kelly, Ireland – Carrickmacross
• Sally Schoenberg, USA – bobbin lace
• Özden Clow, France – Igne Oya
• Joan Brash, USA – needle lace
• Kelli Slack, USA – tatting

Join as many virtual classes as you can live, but don’t worry, they will all be recorded. Registrants will have access to all the recordings for 1 full year.

https://www.sadieseasongoods.com/sewing-to-a-tea-the-hidden-pin-cushion/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIE5slleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSDQYlUu2J7DtQlkYv8kUWaXg1o_h27UpGw8HSTIDgafjEVBguBBIOWVWg_aem_Y3cXanZxhDcxIp70f3fJVQ

Finger Lakes Lace Guild

moved the date and location of their 2025 Lace Day.

October 9-12, 2025

Hotel Ithaca

222 So. Cayuga St.

Ithaca, NY

https://www.thehotelithaca.com/

http://www.fingerlakestatting.com/2024/12/finger-lakes-tatting-2025.html

Announcement: January meeting cancelled

Due the weather,

the Lafayette Lacemakers

will not be meeting 

on Saturday.

Lace Bits

https://www.facebook.com/@iolilace/

2025 Lace Challenge on Facebook

#lacechallenge_2025

 Check your

mailbox!  The new issue is on-line

and in the post.

IOLI web site LINK.

IOLI Members - don't miss out

of the Book Sale this month:

https://lafayette.in.gov/bicentennial

piecework magazine Link to tat-a-winter-star:

 

Lace Bits

Information:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20776/old/20776-h/chapter_13.html

https://quiltshow.com/planyourvisit/

September 4-6, 2025

Alliant Energy Center

Madison, WI

Mystery Blanket Knit A Long LINK.

https://www.tattingcorner.com/

The Tatting Corner Tat Days

July 10-12, 2025

Save the Dates - Information to follow

Tat Your Own Adventure

Bingo Game

https://tatyourownadventure.wordpress.com/

Facebook Challenge:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/588635648288106

 6 point wrap button