Lace Bits

Tippecanoe Co. 4H Fair

July 18-26, 2025

Details:

https://www.homeofpurdue.com/events/annual-events-and-festivals/tippecanoe-county-4-h-fair/

 

The Shuttlebirds Tatting Guild

https://www.shuttlebirds.com/workshop2025.html

27th Annual Workshop and Retreat

April 24-26, 2025

Location:

Quality Inn

7919 N Division St.

Spokane, WA 99208

June 6-7, 2025

https://www.hoosierhillsfiberfestival.com/festival-information

September 11-14, 2025

Details:

https://www.palmettotatters.org/palmetto-tat-days

PTG Tat Days 2025
Rhapsody in Tatting
Ridgecrest Conference Center

Ridgecrest, NC  28770

 Our Members will be demonstrating

lacemaking during the Feast!!

http://feastofthehuntersmoon.org/

Link to pattern:

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

https://rsnstitchbank.org/

The Royal School of Needlework:

"25 new stitches have been added to the RSN Stitch Bank, bringing the total to 475. Each stitch entry contains information about its history, use and structure as well as a step-by-step method with photographs, illustrations and video."

Lace Bits:

For those who visited our tent (space 104)

at the 2024 Feast of the Hunters' Moon,

here are some of the links/information which were requested

by guests attending the Feast!

The Lafayette Lacemakers are a charter of the

International Organization of Lace.

We welcome new members,

we meet monthly (Jan-Sep, Nov) 

on the 2nd Saturday each month at the 

The Arts Federation - TAF 

638 North Street 

Lafayette, IN USA 47901

765.423.2787

 

 https://theartsfederation.org/

More information Link HERE.

For those who are not in the Lafayette area, and would

be interested in finding a lace chapter closer to you, the International Organization of Lace has on on-line list of chapters and groups by location:  

 IOLI Chapter List, Link HERE.

For those unable to travel.  There are on-line

sessions via zoom, thru the Lace Museum,

Virtual Education, Link HERE.  The classes/kits change frequently and are listed for beginners, intermediate, etc.   They include bobbin lace, needle lace, tatting, thread wrapped buttons, and more.

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Where to find lace supplies???

Visit your local craft and fabric stores, online you can view the IOLI Vendor List:    IOLI Lace Vendors List, Link Here.   

The Tatting Corner in Chesterfield, Indiana has the Adams Wooden Tatting Shuttles for sale, thru their web site or store.

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Patterns by Members

can be found on the blog,  Link Here

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 We hope to see you soon at one of our chapter meetings and/or events.

Lace Bits .... St Catherine, patron saint of lacemakers, celebrates her Feast Day on November 25 -- Virtual Lace Education -- Bobbin Lace Patterns -- Needle Lace

Community lacemaking with Maggie Hensel Brown and an opportunity to celebrate St. Catherine's Day. 

Full details of Maggie's Community Lacemaking Project can be found here: https://www.maggiehenselbrown.com/community-lacemaking

She needs hundreds (if not thousands) of needle lace leaves as per the description on her website to create a work of art to be exhibited in Sydney Australia in May. Leaves must be received by March. 

This effort is also being supported by the IOLI in the form of a challenge. https://lacechallenge.internationalorganizationoflace.org/

Perhaps your group would like to assemble and learn how to make the needle lace leaves via videos and written instructions on Maggie's website. Every contributor will be listed and acknowledged in an effort to recognize lacemakers who have so often been anonymous.

 Save the Date:  Lace Lecture

 St Catherine's Day - Nov 25th.   

St. Catherine, Patron Saint of Lacemakers.

Don't miss the Intermediate Tatting Class sessions via The Lace Museum Virtual Education.   

Join via zoom in the comfort of your own home!!!   Taught by Kelli Slack.    There are some nice holiday sessions listed too -- check it out ; )

Lace Bits

https://www.maggiehenselbrown.com/community-lacemaking

The community lacemaking project will be a single, large piece of lace to be exhibited in Sydney in mid 2024. It will measure at least three square metres.

 

A tapestry of small needle lace motifs, designed and pieced together by Maggie Hensel-Brown, but made by hundreds of others.

Please visit their website to learn more & participate!!    

 

July-August 2021: Lace Display in Orland Park, Illinois

If you are in the neighborhood:

The Orland Park Public Library has a display of laces

made by the L.A.C.E. chapter.

http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/

July - August, 2021

Address:  14921 S Ravinia Ave, Orland Park, IL 60462

      Library Hours:    Sunday 1-5 p.m.

                Mon-Friday 9am - 9 p.m.

               Saturday 9am-5pm

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 I put up a photo album on the L.A.C.E. facebook group page,  if you are interested in seeing more. 

   https://www.facebook.com/groups/www.lacemakersofillinois.org/

March Meeting ....

Announcement:   

Following the March 9th business meeting, Lafayette Lacemakers will focus on needle lace,
single Bruxelles stitch.   Time permitting, will also try the double Bruxelles Stitch.

Members:  please check your e-mail for additional details.

Lace Contest

EDITED -- Updated Links 18 July 2015

 2015 Lace Contest Announcement

IOLI and Doris Southard Lace Guild
announce the lace contest theme.

"Lace on the Prairie"

The richness of Iowa and life on the American prairie is calling you for 2015.  With the use of at least one colored thread, be inspired by this beautiful part of the country. 
Your inspiration can come from the amber waves of grain, the indigenous people of the area, the beautiful wildflowers or the unique prairie animals.
Be inspired by this wonderful part of the country as you explore the contest theme of
"Lace on the Prairie"
CLICK HERE   to download the Lace Contest Entry Form.

CLICK HERE   to download the Lace Contest Rules. Postmark deadline for submitting entries is on or before July 1, 2015

Needle Lace: Holiday Ornaments

The next class, following the August meeting, will be needle lace.    The needle lace ornament program will be led by Dagmar F.    Patterns available at previous meeting - or check your e-mail for patterns / attachments.

Participants will have more time for filling stitches if the patterns are prepared ahead of time.  The finished ornament(s) could be used on the Haan Masion wreath we are donating this year.

Ornaments will be sold individually + wreath (unsold ornaments) will be returned to our chapter for future use.

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Images via The Project Gutenberg:    ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEEDLEWORK BY THÉRÈSE DE DILLMONT

Link HERE 

Poncetto Needle Lace

This needle lace book is available on-line via The Smithsonian Archives - It is in English.   

Jeanine blogging at Italian Needlework had this information on her blog post:   "Old Poncetto Book in English".   Her blog has many posts + photographs re lace.  

Needle Lace

There is an interesting Needle Lace Bookmark Project

that I started ..... 

The instructions are detailed with pictures

and  I thought some of the fabulous

lacemakers I know, would enjoy the complimentary instructions!

I should unearth this project and finish it.

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Forgot to add this link:

Visit the site:  Reticella Needle Lace, you will find wonderful diagrams, photographs!  

Mary Corbet

Mary Corbet's Needle 'n Thread

site will inspire you to

grab your needle and thread

with joy!

Visit the home page, or for lace

makers - check out her posts on

needle lace.