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

March: Meeting Announcement

Our next lace meeting will be held on 

Saturday, March 11, 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)!

Our topic will be diagonal finger weaving,

something similar to this image (which is a diagonal design finger weaving craft kit ), we will use fewer strands/loops on Saturday for our project.

(members see email for additional information).

Photograph below, Finger Weaving using five loops (from the last meeting):

For the next couple of meetings, we are going 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). 

   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.

Members, please check your email for details.

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 Butterfly in photograph (top of post):

Pattern:  Life is Bliss Butterfly

derived by Antonia Lai c.Jan 2023 for #pickmeEndrucks Feb 2023

"Judith Connors published her adaptation of Eleonore Endrucks' edging pattern #32 in Talking Tatting May 2022.  This butterfly was extracted and tweaked from Judith's pattern for the Pick Me Feb2023 event in Endrucks 1920 Project Factbook group." 

More information plus pattern can be found:

Endruck's 1920 Project FB page

muskaan TIPS

Endruck's 1920 Project

Not familiar with the 1920 Endrucks Project?   

Link here:   https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LEVftXweztBIOWh4sL4BB7bX65ssoOsOn4oXIgCepY/view

  

February: Meeting Announcement

Our next lace meeting will be held on 

Saturday, February 11, 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)!

Our topics in February are:

"Cords and Tapes; What We Hold Our Packages Together With"

and

 

"Finger Weaving."

Lucet Cords.  (If you have a lucet, please bring.)

For the next couple of meetings, we are going 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). 

   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.

Members, please check your email for details.

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Lace Knitted Sample (photo at the top of blog post) was made from Lafayette Lacemaker class.    To see more details, 

Estonian Lace Knitting:     

 https://lafayettelacemakers.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-9-introduction-to-estonian-knitted.html

 

January: Meeting announcement

We will be meeting in person 

as a group on 

Saturday, January 14, 2023.  

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

Location:   The Arts Federation (TAF)

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)!

Our topics in January are:

"Cords and Tapes; What We Hold Our Packages Together With"

 

"Finger Weaving."

Lucet Cords.  Should you own one, please  bring your lucet(s).  

   As always please bring your show and share.  

What you’re currently making.  Please share - new purchases, gifts, i.e., tools, yarns or threads since our last meeting.

 For the next couple of meetings, we are going 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).

Members, please check your email for details.

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The Bell Pattern (photo above) is an adaptation of 

No. 37 of the Endrucks 1920 Project.

The red bell tatting pattern can be located here:  

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2022/12/heart-angel-bell-play-tag.html 

Not familiar with the 1920 Endrucks Project?   

Link here:   https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LEVftXweztBIOWh4sL4BB7bX65ssoOsOn4oXIgCepY/view

  

 

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.

Lucet

Need a refresher on cord making

using a lucet???

Here are a few links to basic instructions:

Basic Instructions for creating period cord with a lucet

Lucet Instructions

Making Lucetted Cord

Or video from You Tube:

Enjoy cord making today ....