Showing posts with label cord. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cord. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

April: Meeting Announcement


Our next meeting will be held on
Saturday, April 8, 2023.   
 9:00 a.m.

The Arts Federation (TAF)
Art Room
638 North St.
Lafayette, IN USA.

We welcome guests!   If you have met some of our members at one of our demonstrations, please feel free to join us.   Bring your latest project(s)!


   As always please bring your show and share.  
Show what you’re currently making.  
Please share new purchases, books, gifts, tools, yarns or threads.  
Share a class project.

Following our business meeting, 
we are continuing to
acquaint ourselves with some of the period appropriate
(Feast of the Hunters' Moon) fiber activities
that people would see if they came into
our homes (huts or tents).

Our topic this month will be inkle weaving
or band weaving (plain weave)
(members see email for additional information).

Previous fiber activities this year have included

diagonal finger weaving, finger loop braiding, and lucet cord making.

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Tatting Patterns:      On the left, a butterfly pattern based on one found in Complete Book of Tatting by Rebecca Jones (p.71)  -- on the right Jon Yusoff's dragonfly pattern.    link to pattern HERE







Sunday, September 4, 2022

September meeting announcement

 

 We will be meeting as a group on
Saturday, September 10, 2022.  

We will gather in person at 9:00 a.m. 
to socialize and make lace.  

Location:   The Arts Federation (TAF)
638 North St.
Lafayette, IN USA



This meeting will have a little bit of "This 'n That" :

 We will be attaching lace samples, a.k.a. bits & bobs, to our chapter business cards.   If you have small samples, please bring them.

We will have Show-n-Tell.

Will will talk about Feast of the Hunters' Moon appropriate clothing
and history of Fort Quiatenon. Plus, sign up sheet for the Feast.

Should time allow, review of lucet made cords and beginners tatting.
  

Members, watch for email with additional details.

We welcome new members.
Guests are invited to attend our meetings. 

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Some of our Members
will be demonstrating 
how to make lace on 
September 10, 2022 
11am-3pm
 3534 Prophetstown Rd, 
Battle Ground, IN 47920

Stop by and say hello!


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Last Photograph:

Knitted Bobbin Holder pattern can be found on Ravelry.  This is a free Ravelry download.    I used Knitted Ribbons, a Knitter Bunny Pattern - Ribbon Three  Instead of casting on 100 - I cast on 28 which gave me 12 openings for bobbins.  





Tuesday, April 1, 2014

On-Going Reminders ....

Small lace samples needed for:
Tippecanoe County Fair
Global Festival
Feast of the Hunters' Moon
Dickens of a Christmas

Items needed for the Feast:
Bookmarks
Lengths of tatting or bobbin lace for trim
Dorset Buttons
Lucet Cord

Samples for the sample book
being put together by Rosemary.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Lucet


Need a refresher on cord making
using a lucet???

Here are a few links to basic instructions:




Or video from You Tube:

Enjoy cord making today ....