The
Dallas Lace Society
First
Quarter Newsletter
February
2019
Letter
from the President
Dear
Lacers,
I
hope the new year is being good to you all and you are finding time
to lace.
As
many of you know,, our meeting room at the library was covered in
mold and we were afraid we were going to have to find a new meeting
place. Thankfully they have remediated the mold and renovated the
room. We should be able to use it starting this week. The story is
that construction will begin on a new library in April. The lot is
south of Forest on Greenville. The same side as Braum’s but
further south, across Greenville from a medical clinic. I didn’t
see any signs of construction last week as I drove past but will keep
an eye on it.
We
had a lovely Christmas party with plenty of door prizes and raffle
items to keep us excited. The lace exchange, as always, brought out
some beautiful pieces of lace and craft work for us to admire.
Always enjoyable to spend time with good people.
If
you think of any type of lace that you would like a workshop on,
please speak up and if we have enough interest, we can start looking
for a teacher. We hope to have details on Cathy Morris’s workshop
scheduled for April 6 and 7 soon. We are not sure about a fall
workshop with Louise. Her mother had been ill, so she was traveling
to be with her as much as possible. Sadly, her mother died February
5th.
Her mailing address is 36481 Dijon Drive, Newark, CA 94560 if you
would like to send a note.
Our
next demonstration will be the Dallas Quilt show on March 8, 9 and
10. Sign up schedule will be sent out soon. I certainly hope you
can participate. Quilt Plano will be August 9 and 10. I imagine we
will be asked to demo at the State Fair too. We even have a
presentation scheduled for Feb 13, 2020 with the Dallas Needlework
and Textile Guild. Dorothy has volunteered to talk about lace and
its history and others of us can demo.
We
have received a generous and extensive donation of lace books and
supplies from Patricia Grummitt of Fairview. Rowena remembers her
from
the
1988 convention time and that she gave a workshop in McKinney
organized by Barbara Roth during the 90s. Her friends tell me she
was a lace teacher for many years. Miss Pat, as her friends call
her,
had to give up lacing and is now moving to assisted living. She
wanted her lace supplies to go to lacers who would make good use of
them. Arthiss has been happily sorting through the 140 or so books
and will be adding to our library and marketing the duplicates. I
have been organizing and cleaning the lace supplies and now have them
ready for selling. Emails will follow!
Our
next business meeting will be April 30, 2019.
Best
to you all,
Marilyn
Birthdays
February
8 Opal McCleary
February
18 Kelly Day
February
28 Liliana Wahn
March
7 Kathy Ogle
March
20 Stacy Tackett
No-Bake
Springtime Cookies
Ritz
Crackers
Peanut
Butter and/or Nutella
Pink
Candy Meltsl
Sprinkles
Wax
Paper
Spread
each cracker with peanut butter or Nutella or BOTH!. Stick two
crackers together. Melt your chocolate in a microwave and dip each
cracker sandwich until covered, allowing the excess to run off.
Place on wax paper to cool and drop on your sprinkles. Cool
completely.
Library
News
The
Dallas Lace Society was srecently gifted many great books and other
pieces from Patricia Grummitt, gifted lacer and teacher. Arthiss has
already started going through them to get them organized, catalogued
and ready for us to use. Stay tuned for updates!
The
Dallas Lace Society Library is now ONLINE at LIBIB.COM.
For
more information about the DLS Library, contact
Demos
Our
next scheduled demo will be at the Dallas Quilt Show March 8 - 10 of
2019 at Dallas Market Hall. Start thinking about when you would like
to sign up for that. It's a nice venue and a great time to show off
our craft!
We
also plan to demo at the Plano Quilt Show, scheduled for Aug. 9th
and 10th.
If
that's ot enough, the State Fair begins in late Sept. and we should
be asked to demo there as well.
Please
go to bigtex.com and check out the registration and entry dates ASAP
if you plan to enter a piece this year!
Workshops
Our
Spring worrk shop will be led by our own Cathy Morris on April 6th
and 7th!
We will fill you in on the details as soon as the arrangements have
been made.
2019
IOLI Convevntion
The International Organization of Lace Annual Convention will be held in Spokan, Washington, co-hosted by Walla Walla Lacy Lacers and Shuttlebirds Tatting Guild July 21st – 27th. .
To
get details go to:
You
will find all of the information you need to register for your
classes as well as reserve your hotel room.
Membership
in The Dallas Lace Society
The
cost is only $15 a year. If you have not renewed, please do so ASAP.
For
questions, contact our new membership chairman Kathy Ogle at
We
currently have 24 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 April 30th, 2019
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