OIDFA Community Project + IOLI Lace Challenge

 

Edited 8 July 2025:

A Rose for Kalofer

Link HERE. https://oidfa-usa.org/oidfa-congress-2025/

This is a Community Lace Project for the

2025 OIDFA Congress in Kalofer & Karlovo, Bulgaria.

Design by M.Merce Rovira i Regas,

Associacio de puntaires de les Comarques de Girona

 OIDFA web page link HERE. https://oidfa-usa.org/home/

This rose is also the IOLI (International Organization of Lace Incorporated) challenge to its members. The information is located here.

The Lace Museum, California, USA, provided free classes and instructions for any lace maker interested in making roses for this project.
For step by step directions – click here A4 size click here Letter size
Material list – click here.

Rose Pattern

I used DMC pc 5 #3689

and Lizbeth 20 #145.

Aleene's Stiffen Quick.

Getting ready for tomorrow's post.  

When they arrive (flat) in Bulgaria, 

the pieces will be rolled into roses.

 

(picture from their web site).

For the USA participants, please contact Sumiko Tray at stray.oidfa (at)  gmail.com for the mailing instruction.

Have you been working on a rose?  If so, now is the time to finish the rose and submit it.  

Send it FLAT to Kalofer, Bulgaria in an A4 envelope with a sheet of cardboard for protection to: 

Bulgarian center for bobbin and needle lace

ul. Hristo Botev 4

Kalofer 4370 Bulgaria

Make sure roses arrive by July 15th!

Close to the center (a finish) ....

Edited 8 July 2025:

Getting close to the center.... I'm using DMC pc 5 #3689 and Lizbeth 20 #145.

A Rose for Kalofer

This is a Community Lace Project for the

2025 OIDFA Congress in Kalofer & Karlovo, Bulgaria.

Design by M.Merce Rovira i Regas,

Associacio de puntaires de les Comarques de Girona

 OIDFA

Rose Pattern

This rose is also the IOLI (International Organization of Lace Incorporated) challenge to its members. The information is located here.

Have you been working on a rose?  If so, now is the time to finish the rose and submit it.  

Send it FLAT to Kalofer, Bulgaria in an A4 envelope with a sheet of cardboard for protection to: 

Bulgarian center for bobbin and needle lace

ul. Hristo Botev 4

Kalofer 4370 Bulgaria

Make sure roses arrive by July 15th!

For the USA participants, please contact Sumiko Tray at stray.oidfa (at) gmail.com for the mailing instruction.

 

It is a start ....

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

This is a Community Lace Project for the

2025 OIDFA Congress in Kalofer & Karlovo, Bulgaria.

This is also the #11 Lace Challenge for IOLI.

https://lacechallenge.internationalorganizationoflace.org/lace-challenge/lace-challenge-11

 I'm using DMC pc 5 #3689 and Lizbeth 20 #145.

 

Gros point de Venise Class

 Not much

accomplished during today's needle lace zoom!!   

I started the sampler (photo on right of finished piece)

and will complete it in four sessions.  Next session will be the next three rectangles. (filling)

I am using Lizbeth, Size 20, Col. 601 for the outline --

 DMC 80, Col. 5200 for the filling(s).

Gros Point de Venise Class 2025.  

Pattern + Instructions:  Loretta Holzberger

Loretta's Custom Stitchery

Sessions thru Virtual Education,

The Lace Museum.

 I really should have used a different color paper/card stock for the pattern!!!    Challenge to use white fiber on white pattern.

 Preparing for bobbin lace Rose for Kalofer session on Thursday.   Prep for needlelace and bobbin lace is time consuming.  Stay tuned.   The bobbin lace flowers/rose are part of a community lace project for the 2025   OIDFA Congress in Kalofer and Karlovo, Bulgaria.  Also, https://lacechallenge.internationalorganizationoflace.org/lace-challenge/lace-challenge-11 Lace Challenge #11 for I.O.L.I.  

I am grateful to Joan Brash for her pattern and sessions thru the Lace Museum.  I'd like to finish the sunflower this summer, too.   

 

Lace Challenge

I.O.L.I. Lace-Challenge-9

From IOLI:

 " Challenge 9 for IOLI members is to participate in Maggie Hensel-Brown’s Community Lacemaking Project.  If you have never made needle lace, this is an opportunity to learn by making a small leaf.  If you have made needle lace before, this is an opportunity to demonstrate your skill.  A page of leaf patterns, 38 pages of instructions and two video lessons are provided.  The website is https://www.maggiehenselbrown.com/community-lacemaking

To see the leaves that have already been made and are on their way to Maggie, visit  https://lacechallenge.internationalorganizationoflace.org/lace-challenge/lace-challenge-9  

Three completed -- Ready for Monday's mail

Top left:

apx 7 cm in length.

DMC Cebelia, No 20, Ecru

Edge Clark's, 30, Color 4A (Vintage)

Top right:

apx 6.5cm in length.

Lizbeth 20, Col. 168

Edge DMC Cebelia No 20, Ecru

larger leaf:

apx 9.5cm in length.

Lizbeth Size 20, Color 601

Edge DMC Ecru, No 20, Cebelia

Needle lace for the:

The Community Lacemaking Project

© 2020 by Maggie Hensel-Brown

 

One of 3 completed ....

Leaf One of 3

Lizbeth Size 20, Color 601

Edge DMC Ecru, No 20, Cebelia

WIPs:

 Lizbeth Size 20, Col. 168.   Will add the edge.

 DMC Cebelia, Ecru No 20.  Needs the edge.

The Community Lacemaking Project

© 2020 by Maggie Hensel-Brown

 

Needle lace update ....

Fingers crossed I get my lace 

leaves in Monday's mail.

They are a part of the Community Lacemaking Project.

Pattern © 2020 by Maggie Hensel-Brown

I've enjoyed picking up needle lace again as I haven't done it in awhile.   

The videos Maggie has on her web page are helpful - as is her pdf with instructions / pattern.

I've used size 20 fibers - Lizbeth 601, Lizbeth 168, & DMC Ecru Cebelia.

 

Needle Lace for Community Lace Project

 I admit not having much needle lace experience.

The beginner instructions are step-by-step & I'd like to participate.

This Community Lace Project is interesting to me.

Leaves!!!   I found the information in the IOLI link and Maggie Hensel Brown's page.

From Facebook:     Community lacemaking with Maggie Hensel Brown 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.

 

What is the Community Lacemaking Project?

fixed link --

Please visit the Maggie Hensel-Brown web link above.

to find out more about the Community Lace making Project!!

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

https://www.maggiehenselbrown.com/upcoming-events

"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."