Showing posts with label challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label challenge. Show all posts

Friday, February 7, 2025

meeting announcement


The Lafayette Lacemakers Chapter

will meet on
Saturday, February 8, 2025
9:00 a.m. - 12 noon.


Location:

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:




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

Heart for the Holiday by Georgia Seitz
 

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Lace Bits

 


Would you like to participate in a
collaborative project:
A Rose for Kalofer (OIDFA) Details in links below:








http://feastofthehuntersmoon.org/
 Our members will be demonstrating lacemaking during the Feast of the Hunters' Moon.



















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.
























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


Saturday, January 4, 2025

Lace Bits



2025 Lace Challenge on Facebook
#lacechallenge_2025


 Check your
mailbox!  The new issue is on-line
and in the post.




IOLI Members - don't miss out
of the Book Sale this month:













 

Sunday, October 4, 2020

I.O.L.I. announcing Challenge 1: Inspired by the Stash

 





Look in your stash & find something to inspire you; for example:
    a piece of lace you inherited, received as a gift, found in a thrift store or salvged
    fiber that you have always intended to use to make lace
    a pattern that you have always intended to try
It is up to you to decide what inspires you to create.

Between October 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020:  Submit a picture showing your inspiration & a brief statement about your inspiration.     challenge@internationalorganizationoflace.org.

When you complete your project, submit a final picture and a brief statement about your project by March 31, 2021.   challenge@internationalorganizationoflace.org

Please see the I.O.L.I. Fall Bulletin 2020 (Vol 41, No. 1) , pg 5,  for additional details.   

Questions about the challenge?   Contact:   challenge@internationalorganizationoflace.org


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pattern in above photograph cKaren H Thompson, 2020


Monday, June 18, 2018

Membership, Lace Challenge, Programs

Reminder:  Membership dues

It is time to Renew your Membership.

2018-19
Annual Dues are $10.00.

Please contact 
Membership Chair
with comments/questions



New members are welcome!

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

Annual dues are
$10.00 per year

(July through June)
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.


Benefits of Membership

Upcoming Programs:
July:  Lace-In.  (Anything in progress, including Introduction to Estonian knitted lace (June program). 
August:  led by Bette.  Holiday ornaments in any technique.  Bring any patterns or finished ones.
September:  No meeting or program.   Lace demo / community event on Sept 8th, TBA.
October:  Knitted Lace, led by Anne.  (either more Estonian or Shetland)
November:  Heart patterns in any technique.  Bring finished ones and patterns.
December:  No meeting - Holiday party
2019
January:  Lace-in (Heart patterns in any technique, anything in progress)
February:  Knitted Lace (topic to be selected)

MEMBERS:  Please bring more ideas for future meetings.  Keep an eye on your email for further details.

Theme:  Jewelry
Participants:  Members of Lafayette Lacemakers
Technique:  Open to any lacemaking technique

MEMBERS:  Check you e-mail for additional guidelines.

Community Outreach:
July 7-8:  Canal Days Festival (Delphi, IN)
July 15:  Jasper Co Fair (Rensselaer, IN)
Sept 8:  TBA
Oct 6-7:  Feast of the Hunters' Moon (West Lafayette, IN)




Rosemarie's Heart Pattern

© Rosemarie Peel January 2007


Link HERE to the tatted heart pattern (photograph above).