The
Dallas Lace Society
Second
Quarter Newsletter
November
2017
Letter
from the President
Dear
DLS Members,
Here
we are already well into the last quarter of our year! That
Christmas lace exchange will be here before we know it. Our
Christmas
party is planned for December 9 at the library from 11 AM to 3 PM,
our regular second Saturday meeting day so we will not be making lace
that day. We’ll be partying and feasting on our potluck luncheon.
Stacy will be organizing the decorations and sending an email about
the potluck.
During
the party door prizes donated by members are given which can be any
item you would like to donate. Please wrap or sack the item as we
pick blind and then see what surprise we got. Raffle tickets are
sold for items
donated
by members too. Many of us have added to our lace supplies from
these
generously donated raffle items. Then there is the lace exchange –
wrap a lace piece that you have made and sneak it onto the table.
Anyone who puts a piece of lace in then gets to pick a package
containing a piece of lace made by another member. It is so fun to
see what everyone has made.
We
had a great demo day at the State Fair. There was a lot of interest
in our lacing and we got to use our new banner for the first time.
What a great idea Stacy had. The lace letters showed well and looked
beautiful.
Kelly
Day and Arthiss Kliever were battling for first and second place in
Interpretation and Original categories. Kelly first for
Interpretation with her star and Arthiss first for Original with her
angels. Kelly second with her very original Longhorn
and Arthiss with her excellent tapelace interpretation. Kathy
Morris’s lovely Honiton Coneflower won third place in
Interpretation and Lisa Neidinger’s beautiful needle lace won a
third place. Congratulations to all and I hope for more entries next
year.
Arthiss,
our talented display case creator, will be asking for items to use
for our lace display at the Lancaster
library in February.
Hopefully we can pick a day when we can all go out to see the
display together.
Two
years have flown by and it is time for the election of our officers
to serve for the next two fiscal years, beginning 1/1/18, as our
Executive Board. The elected officers are President, Vice President,
Secretary and Treasurer. Fortunately for all of us Debbie and Linda
have offered to continue to serve as Secretary and Treasurer.
Arthiss does not wish to continue as Vice President. I know all of
you, as do I, thank these members for their dedicated and cheerful
service to DLS. An email with the slate of officers will be sent
soon for you to cast your vote.
Hope
to see you soon,
Marilyn
Christmas
Party
Saturday
December 9th,
2017
11am
to 3pm
Please
bring a lace item of your own making, wrapped but not labeled, for
the lace exchange. There will be lots of goodes up for auction as
well as door prizes and lots of food!
If
you want to donate an item for the auction, want to bring a specific
food dish or have any questions, just give me a shout.
Kelly
Day
214-616-0066
Birthdays
November
5 – Rita Cole
November
5 Beverly Tshirhaart
November
8 Cathey Morris
December
6 Brenda Taylor
December
16 Heather Norris
December
19 Elena Cole
December
22 Lydia Morgan
January
9 Linda Cole
January
13 Vivian Lee
January
31 Laura Sandison
Congratulations
to the State Fair of Texas winners from the DLS
Arthiss
Kliever – 1st
place for original work
Kelly
Day - 2nd
place same category
Kelly
Day - 1st
place for personal interpretation of an
Arthiss
Kliever - 2nd
place same category
Cathy
Morris - 3rd place same category
Lisa
Neidinger - 3rd
Place for her knitted lace
Library News
Arthiss
has completed cataloging our library of 461 items!
Our
New Aquisitions
- Alphabet Inspirations in Colored Lace by Sandy Woods (donated by Debbie Stone)
- Technique and Design of Cluny Lace by Paulis (donated by Regina Dale)
- Honiton Lace: Basic Technical Instruction Book by Joyce Dorsett (aLace Guild publication)
- Logarithmic Lace, compiled by Deborah Robinson (donated by Regina Dale)
- Liberty in Lace pattern book from IOLI Convention, 2017
- Pride of Africa, by Anny Noben-Slegers (donated by Marilyn Waisanen)
- Himmlisch Weihnachten – Heavenly Christmas – Noel Celeste by Christine Mirecki (recommended by Kathy Ogle)
- Knupfen – Koppel – Knotted Lace by Eva Tiesler (donated by Elena Cola)
- Nyplayksen Opas – Lacemaking Gild – book from a Finnish publiching house (donated by Elena Cola)
- Biancheria Tavola – Embroidered Table Linens – magazine from Spanish publishing house (donated by Elena Cola)
- The Bulletin, vol.38:no.1 (Fall 2017)
Elena
Cola donated a wonderful collection of patterns, which have been
assembled in two albums. Copies of patterns can be made upon
request.
Several
book duplicates will be available for auction at the annual Christmas
Party.
The
Dallas Lace Society Library is now ONLINE at LIBIB.COM.
For
more information about the DLS Library, contact
Demos
We
have been invited to give a talk on the history of lace for a
women's group in McKinney on February 2, 2017 from 10 am to noon.
Dorothy Morgan will be giving the speech while others demonstrate as
she speaks. If you are interested in participating, contact Dorothy
at centumlittlefingers@yahoo.com for all of the details.
The
Dallas quilt Show is scheduled for March 9 – 11. We will probably
demonstrate again this year.
Just
Showing Off
We
have been asked to display some of our work in the Lancaster Public
Library in February. If yoou would like to contribute some of your
work, contact Arthiss.Kliever@gmail.com.
The International Organization of Lace Annual Convention will be held in San Antonio next summer.
July
22 – 28, 2018
For
more information visit the IOLI website.
We
have been asked to help with local tours, contests and other things.
Membership
in The Dallas Lace Society
The
cost is only $15 a year, due Feb. 1st.
For questions, contact our new membership chairman Kathy Ogle at
We
currently have 31 members.
Meetings
– Every Tuesday at Forest Green Library 11 am to 3 pm
*Second
Saturday of each month from 1
pm to 4 pm
*barring scheduled
library events
Next
business meeting will be January 30, 2018
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