Lin, I do not see how our announcement of the 2015 IOLI convention has taken
the focus away from the upcoming 2014 convention as there has not been any
discussion recently on Arachne about it among the talk of Miss Channers Mat,
copyright and book publishing. Instead, you have indeed tried to
What is the closest airport for Coralville?
I would imagine most people will want to use the Eastern Iowa Airport, which
I still think of by it's original name, the Cedar Rapids Airport. The airport
symbol is CID which I think stands for Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Dubuque.
The Iowa City airport
Doris Southard Lace Guild is pleased to announce that we will be co-hosting
the 2015 IOLI Convention. The headquarters hotel will be the Marriott
Coralville Hotel Convention Center just off of Interstate 80 in Coralville,
Iowa.
PLEASE NOTE that the convention will be one day later in the week
Actually, I mainly read Arachne via the Bookmark to the Archives on my browser
toolbar. It is much easier to do on my tablet than logging into my Hotmail
account and wading through the digests. That is also the main reason I don't
post very often, because I have to log onto my Hotmail account to
As a modern day lacemaker I have a computer, Photoshop, scanner, printer,
cardstock and clear contact paper, and I'm not afraid to use them! I make
nearly all of my prickings by printing them on my home computer onto light
blue cardstock and covering with clear contact (sticky backed plastic). I
I will second what Susan Hottle said about her Ott LED mobile task light.
Some ladies in our EGA guild also came home with some of them and really raved
about them. It seemed just the thing for traveling! I took mine to the 2011
IOLI convention in Bethesda because I had limited room in my
Convention time is almost here!
If you happen to find yourself driving through eastern Iowa via I-80 you might
decide to take a rest break in West Branch, home of the Herbert Hoover
Presidential Library Museum. http://hoover.archives.gov/
During WWI Herbert Hoover established the Commission
The only bobbin lacemakers in Iowa that I know are all in the eastern part of
the state.
It's too bad we didn't know about you sooner, because we just held our annual
retreat weekend, here in Cedar Rapids. As a special treat we invited Susan
Wenzel to teach. Most of us enjoyed learning s'
What a great convention!
Janice, thank you for posting the photo! What a great idea to get a group
picture and the staircase was perfect. I just need to make a small
correction. I am Anita Hansen (not Harris) that is next to you in the
front row on the right.
Jeri, I loved meeting you and
I do hope that Doris is out there reading all these lovely comments about her.
I'm sure she is touched.
My first encounter with bobbin lace occurred in the early 1980's. My husband
and I went to a local festival in October. There sitting on the ground was a
woman demonstrating bobbin lace. I'm
This afternoon Sally Olsen and I had a very pleasant visit with Doris
Southard in her home in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Tomorrow (September 2)
Doris will celebrate her 90th birthday! We brought our various goodies
from the IOLI convention to show her. She also always takes great
interest in seeing
Alice,I picked up Gillian Dye Adrienne Thunder's new book Beginner's Guide
to Bobbin Lace at the IOLI convention last summer. My first impression was
that it could be a great book for beginners. I haven't read it cover to
cover yet but it has tons of great pictures. And at $20 it is a great
I agree with Sue's comments that Binche will keep your brain working! It does
require more concentration and ability to follow a working diagram. But in the
end it is still Cross and Twist. I actually enjoy the medallion pieces found
in Collection I and also Anny Noben-Slegers many designs.
Doris asked me to forward her message to Arachne.
From: Doris Southard
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 2:21 PM
To: Arachne
Subject: Cedar Falls flooding
I have only now and then read the Arachne messages lately and just now saw the
mention of my evacuation during the severe flooding in Cedar
Greetings from soggy Cedar Rapids, Iowa!
First, I am relieved to say that I am personally safe and sound and up high
away from the floodwaters. It has been an unbelievable experience here in Iowa
this year! Never in our wildest dreams could we have imagine how far the flood
waters would have
The list is a little quiet these days. Everyone must be busy making lace!
Is anyone else excited about the upcoming IOLI convention? Less than 2
weeks away!
This wil be my second convention, the first was in 2005 at Denver. It was
great!
Who else is going? What classes are you taking?
What does the Arachne pin look like? I have an @ pin that sometimes
is used by people online to identify themselves to each other. I think
perhaps it was a group of needlework stitchers that use this pin which
was why I got mine. I'm pretty sure I did not get it from JoAnne. Lacy
Susan had
Tamera asked
How much interest is there, *among the IOLI members*, in reproductions
of old plaited laces (in thread or in wire or both)? I know
SCA-affiliated lacemakers might be interested, because, with their
cut-off date being 1600, their sources of patterns, especially BL ones,
are
Here in the US I have never seen proper pricking card. The only way to
get it would be from overseas or perhaps from a US lace vendor which
makes it inconvenient and likely expensive. This is also true of the
blue film used to cover a pricking. I purchased some last year at the
Denver IOLI
I recently emailed Kantcentrum in August to subscribe to their wonderful
magazine. (What other magazine has Binche designs?) My VISA was charged
about $34 (including the foreign transaction fee). If you think about it,
that's not a bad price. An IOLI subscription is $30.
I received Kant 1
In a message dated 10/9/06 10:31:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently emailed Kantcentrum in August to subscribe to their wonderful
magazine. (What other magazine has Binche designs?) My VISA was
charged
about $34 (including the foreign transaction fee). If
Hi Sue!
Yes, there are a few of us in Cedar Rapids that make lace! We just had our
monthly meeting yesterday. We meet the second Wed of the month, except for
quarterly when we meet on a Saturday in someone's home. We are known as the
Doris Southard Lace Guild, but currently are not an IOLI
But the following:
it was to Greet's advantage to have another student, even if it was
for just half.
has me puzzled... Has IOLI changed its rules, and started to pay per
head instead of per hour? If so, then Greet might, indeed, have
half-profited :)
But, from all I've ever heard, teachers
Hi All!
I was one of JoAnne's roomies at the IOLI convention. In case she doesn't
get back to her email right away, I thought I would try to clear up her
comment about sitting in on Lier Lace Class.
We were lucky to have Greet Rome-Verbeylen and her Michigan lacer traveling
comanions stop
Last night I was working on my lace project ... realizing I need to finish
this project to free up bobbins for my IOLI class... and started to wonder
about extra lighting during class. I have a Dazor floor lamp hovering
directly over my lace stand otherwise I would not be able to work on lace
Thanks for the great replies! Keep them coming!
Three of us will be driving out in my van from Iowa to Denver, so I don't
have to worry about stuffing a lamp into a suitcase. But I have NO desire
to lug my heavy Dazor floor lamp around a convention! It's enough of a pain
to get from the
I received my letter on Wednesday. I had been stalking the mailman waiting
for it. Wouldn't you know it came while I was away at our monthly lace
guild meeting? lol
I'm in the Binche class! I'm looking forward to my first IOLI convention
and meeting lots of you!
Anita Hansen
Cedar
Hey, I thought I was the only one that stuck her finger out to make hitches!
LOL!
I think I must have learned this method from my very first lace teacher,
Betty Alderson.
Jane wrote:
If your thread is wound clockwise as you look down on the head, if you
hold the bobbin horizontally in your
I'm looking forward to my very first IOLI convention this year!!! Hopefully
it will be the first of many. I am so excited! I'm looking forward to the
Arachne lunch too. I guess I better start doing more talking on the list
so you won't say Who is she? LOL!
Anita
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
midwest
I received several lace gifts for Christmas this year. :) (Most were
bought in October and stashed away for my young son to wrap and put under
the tree for me.)
Here's my list:
- green horseshoe
- 4 dozen rosewood Binche bobbins
- wooden pricker handle with a vise to hold the needle
- bent
Hi Sharon,
Lucky you is right!
I agree with Beth that you probably shouldn't try repricking the holes.
But I'll disagree with using a crayon to make a rubbing. I think you would
have to press too hard to get a rubbing. Chalk maybe.
If it were me, I'd be sticking it in my scanner and trying to
Liz wrote:
2) I understand there is a Ring thing that works even better than the Green
Horseshoe, and that it has extensions to make larger rings. Does anyone
know of these? Can you point me in the right direction to find them,
please? - and perhaps give me it's correct name!
This past
Hey all,
I was out running errands today and found some plastic tubing at Wal-Mart.
My thanks to Eva in Spain for mentioning it is used in aquariums. 8' for
less than $1!
Anita
Cedar Rapids, Iowa USA
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On the road to retirement?
I just said goodbye to Susan and her DH Ken about an hour ago. She stopped
by our lace retreat and displayed her many goodies for us poor bobbin lace
supply starved Iowans. We thought we had died and gone to bobbin lace
heaven! :-)
Yes, she had the Colcotton in a rainbow of wonderful
Oh, wow! major drool Dona, lucky you to have such skillful friends!!!
Maybe the kitties were hoping for softer, cushier pillows? (instead of
those hard as bricks ones with pins)
Anita
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Dont just search. Find. Check out the new
FWIW, the seller has the following near the end of her listing:
To the best of my knowledge, all data in this CD was gathered from public
domain sources. No charge is being made for the contents of this cd only
materials and for my time to collect, organize and distribute.
Actually, the seller
Regardless this seller seems to think they are doing no wrong because
the content of the books is in public domain. But they are violating
copyright because they did not make the scans themselves or get permission
from Tess Prof. If they are truely concerned about doing a public
service
Hello everyone!
I'm usually a lurker, but was too excited to keep this lace experience to
myself.
Our lace guild was asked to do a demonsration at the National Czech Slovak
Museum Library today. They were having a folk dance festival featuring
dancers in various folk costumes from various
Hello everyone!
Tamara mentioned that Doris teaches the open (TCTC) method whereas most
other introductory lacemaking books teach the closed (CTCT) method. I
must first say that Doris is a member of our local lace guild and so we have
a special place for her in our heart. It's not surprising
Hey JoAnne!That's great news about your Miss Channer's mat. Sounds like
you've been lacing up a storm since that last time I saw it! You've
gotten a lot of great responses for finishing your mat. I think that's a
great idea to see what sort of rules the ISF people will use. Frankly,
I'm
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