July 11-13, 2024
Seventh Annual
Tatting Corner Tat Days
Chesterfield, Indiana USA
Details can be found on their web site - Link Here.
Stitches of Life II: My blog space for making lace and other creative things
Saturday, March 09, 2024
Friday, March 08, 2024
Facebook post from IOLI:
Event in the USA:
FREE and open to ANYONE AND EVERYONE! Bring your family! Bring your friends! Spend a couple of hours viewing the AMAZING works of art our teachers produce!! Visit our Vendor Hall…oh, so MANY goodies!!! Visit our Display room where lacers display their work.
Are you a “crafty” person? Maybe you’re not but want to see something different AND FREE!
Come one. Come all! You’re invited to the 71st annual International Organization of Lace, Inc. (I.O.L.I.) Public Day. Hosted by I.O.L.I. and the Music City Lacers. Entry is free.
Imagine: Enter into a kaleidoscope-fantasy entryway with July 4th balloons EVERYWHERE. Smell the popcorn, hear the music. Then as you walk along the aisle, view the Bobbin Lace, Tatting, Knitting, and SO MUCH MORE. Teachers (20+ teachers from so many different lace disciplines) displaying their designed and worked art pieces.
Proceed into the vendor room where there is something for everyone; books, tools, finished items for sale, mementoes, jewelry…oh, so much more!!! Then, when you can tear yourself away from all the goodness, proceed out the door down to where you can partake of a bag of popcorn and a glass of lemonade. REMEMBER: only the first 50 get the free popcorn and lemonade.
Maybe then, you follow the signs to the display room where people have set up displays for their art. Spend some time here and marvel at the talent, the colors; the DIVERSITY of lace.
Come early!! Stay Late!!! We hope to see you there.
Events to see: The Teacher Showcase, the Vendor Hall, and the Display Room. So much to see. So little time to see it in!!
WHEN: July 5th, 2024, 6p.m. to 9p.m.
WHERE: Franklin Marriott Cool Springs Hotel
700 Cool Springs Blvd
Franklin, TN
(615)261-6100
Friday, March 01, 2024
Session Three: Do You Know Your Picots?
I used Lizbeth, Size 20.
Colors 649 + 696.
Lotus Rings, Overlap.
These are Lotus: Overlap, Layer, Underlap [+overlap alt colors].
These are on card stock. The variety of new things I learned!
These are the WRONG way to make Venetian Picots - -Instructor Kelli Slack
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Thursday, February 29, 2024
Second Session: Do You Know Your Picots?
Second session was Daisy Picots (+beads), Dot Picots (+variations, beads),
Downward Facing picots using stitch markers, and Venetian Picots.
The class pieces made a pretty colorful pile of tatting!
Next -- Lotus Rings. Overlap - Layer - Underlap.
Instructor Kelli Slack
thru the Lace Museum
Kelli Slack Designs ~ www.kellislackdesigns.com
c. 2022
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Akumal, Mexico
DS (middle son) and I have just returned from Akumal, Mexico. He is a SCUBA diver -- I'm more of a snorkel here-n-there in the bay and Cenotes. (Taak Bi Ha) DS has a video (pocket sized) camera full of awesome dive videos -- For me, I just enjoyed snorkeling. Saw many sea turtles, stingray, lion fish, schools of fish. In one of the Cenotes, there was a shallow area where the school of dark color fish knibble on feet and legs.
Sharing some of our photos:
Moon rise over the bay. (middle son).
Many pelicans.
(me) enjoying the tide pools.
fabulously interesting.
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