The lacemakers of the Living Lace of Omaha Club would like to extend and invitation for you to join us at their 3rd Lacemaking Workshop.
When: Saturday and Sunday, October 8th and 9th, 2005.
Where: Eugene T. Mahoney State Park
28500 W. Park Highway
Ashland, NE
Mahoney State Park is located about halfway between Omaha and Lincoln just off Interstate 80—Exit 426. It offers a wide variety of activities and has cabins (usually booked a year in advance), motel style rooms in the main Lodge as well as camping facilities.
The workshop will be held in the large, beautiful Lodge where we will have spacious rooms for classes as well as a large area for vendors.
Lodge rooms are available for about $150 for two nights stay (Friday and Saturday) LLO has 10 rooms reserved on a first come first served basis. Call the Lodge direct to book your own room—402-944-2523.
For more information about Eugene T. Mahoney State Park and all it has to offer go to: www.outdoornebraska.org.
Also in the area is the Strategic Air Command Museum and the Henry Doorly Zoo Wildlife Safari Park. Just north on I-80 (exit___________) is an outlet mall.
All meals will be on your own. There is a restaurant in the lodge.
This years the following vendors have expressed a willingness to come for our shopping ecstasy:
The Lacemaker (Tracy Jackson) from Ohio
Unique Expressions (Susan and Jim Groh) from Missouri
DS9 Designs (Debbie Arnold) from Colorado
Snowgoose (Pete Alderson) from Colorado
This year we will be offering two separate bobbin lace classes to better meet the needs of the bobbin lace community. We will also be offering one group tatting class in a ‘more the merrier’ atmosphere.
Tatting workshop: $35
Bobbin Lace Workshop: $60.
Times:
SATURDAY: Registration & Shopping: 8-9:00
Morning Class: 9:00 to 12:00
Lunch/Shopping: 12-1:30
Afternoon Class: 1:30-5:00
Shopping available after classes and into the evening as per demand.
Show and Share/Open lacing/just hang out---7:30 to 10:00.
In the evening, we will have access to the facilities for lacing, a Show and Share, and possibly more shopping time. Please bring some of your lace work and/or pieces of lace from your lace collection no matter how small it may be. Remember, we’re all ‘Fiber Junkies’ and would love to see new/different stuff. As an added incentive, we will have a people’s choice ribbon for the best piece of handmade bobbin lace and the best piece of tatted lace.
SUNDAY: Shopping: 8:00 to 9:00
Morning Class: 9:00 to 12:00
Lunch/Shopping: 12:00 to 1:30
Afternoon session: 1:30 to 3:30
Bobbin Lace Classes: Sit and Lace or come and join the tatters in their pursuit of fun.
TATTING WORKSHOP--instructor: Karen Bovard
The skill level for the tatting workshop will be aimed at the tatter who is comfortable in the basics of tatting (double stitch to make rings, chains, picots, and joins). All other techniques will be taught.
The basic design premise is based upon making a uniquely tatted chatelaine body...either neck hung or a smaller waist-hung appendage. The design for the body utilizes 4 shuttles tatted continuously using padded split ring technique. You will need to bring 4 shuttles wound in Size 10 or 20 thread in two different colors. the two colors will be used in the design and so the colors should be either contrasting (eg. white and black, orange and blue) or coordinating (eg. light and dark shades of the same color).
The rest of the class will be playing around with tatting techniques to create straight chains that will be used as 'attachment chains' that can be used to attach your favorite tools to your chatelaine on a non-permanent basis. We will be exploring many versions of Pearl Tatting, Node Stitch Tatting, Zig-Zag Tatting, and Inside-Stitch Tatting. Then we will take the individual stitch techniques and learn how to manipulate them to create new and innovative forms. Karen will also introduce you to hybrid combinations of the stitches to create truly unique patterns. Karen guarantees that there will be something new for even the most experienced tatter.
Sunday afternoon we will shift from workshop mode and have fun with tatting. This year again we will have fun with a tat-off. You may participate only if you want to. There will be three different forms.
A. Traditional Tat-Off: You will be given a tatting pattern on Saturday that you can practice and learn. You choose your favorite shuttle, tools, and thread. Everyone will have the same amount of time to see how many repeats they can make.
B. No-Picture Tatting: You will be given a written pattern without a picture to tat in a certain amount of time. This will test your pattern-reading skills.
C. Synchronized Tat-Off: You will be randomly paired with other tatter to tat one project together. This promises to be a lot of fun!
We will also have fun with "Adventures in 3-D Tatting". Bring your tatting leftovers and failures to the workshop. Jennifer Bartling will give you inspiration to turn them into miniature works of art. We will be playing with changing our tatting from flat (2-D) to fun 3-D tatting.
As an added bonus, Jennifer will show you a unique way to use tatting in other fibers art forms. Bring some variegated thread or yarn & appropriate tatting shuttle/needle (any size you like to work with).
BOBBIN lACE WORKSHOP CLASSES
This year we will be offering two different bobbin lace classes based up the level of bobbin lace that the individual is comfortable with.
CZECH LACE CLASS--Instructor: Katarina Medelska
Appropriate Student Skill Level: Intermediate to advanced lacemakers---1 to 2 years of lacemaking experience—comfortable in basic tape lace techniques of cloth stitch, half stitch, braids, leaves, and picots.
CONTINUING BEGINNER TORCHON BOBBIN LACE--Instructor: Susan Groh
Since you know a ‘cross’ from a ‘twist’, this is the next class for you. It’s a technique class. Let veteran lacemaker and teacher, Susan Groh, from Kansas City area teach you tips an tricks covering different ways to sart and finish you lace whither it be a square, circle, rectangle or an edging. Susan will discuss various patterns covering starts, forside, headside, picots, roseground, spiders, and finishes. After this brief lecture, you will start a lace project using magic threads. Feel free to bring any troublesome prickings to be discussed in class.
Appropriate Student Skill Level: Beginner lacemaker---less than 1-2 years experience. This class is designed for two different types of bobbin lacers: for those who have not laced for awhile and need a refresher to ‘get back’ to bobbin lace. It is also a great class for novice bobbin lacers to relearn the basics of Torchon Lace from an experienced teacher for a new perspective on the technique.
You will receive details of class supplies: thread type and size, number of bobbins to bring either with your confirmation letter or thereafter.
Pictures of projects, maps, and other information will be posted to this website as they become available.
For more information:
Karen Bovard Jennifer Bartling
9102 Poppleton Avenue 1335 W. 12th
Omaha, NE 68124 Fremont, NE 68025
402-393-7517 or 280-3963 402-721-8612
kbovard@creighton.edu