Year in Review - Part II

 

Anna McDowell

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Marilee Rockley's Beaded Path

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Loretta Holtzberger

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  Kaye B. Judt

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Beaded Lace Bobbins

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Patti Duff Mini Tats

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EGA Course

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 Kalofer Rose (OIDFA)

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Karen Thompson

 On to 2026 . . . . 

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.