Author Archive: Fenland Lacemakers
Lace Trade Fair
The Makit Fenland Fair is on this Saturday, 6 October in the Burgess Hall, St Ives. More details can be found here Advertisements
Bring your pillow
The October meeting is a working evening.
National Lacemaking Day
We celebrated the occasion by holding a lace demonstration and workshop at the Norris Museum in St Ives. A number of visitors successfully completed key ring tags, and were all very proud of their first piece of lace!
A Working Milliner
A fascinating evening learning all about the craft of millinery and hat making from Michelle, and viewing some of her fabulous creations.
The Autumn season of lace….
After the summer break, we begin on Thursday 6 September with speaker Michelle Poyer-Sleeman and ‘A Working Milliner’
Programme change
The June meeting will now be a working evening, so bring your lace pillow along on 7 June.
AGM
After the business matters were out of the way we worked on our latest projects. Some of us continued with the quadrant designs we began in April.
This Thursday’s meeting
The May meeting is our AGM and also a working evening.
Rewards of the raffle
This week Kath and Pat were able to present The Woodlands Centre with a cheque from the proceeds of our Lace Day raffle.
April Meeting
Design a Lace quadrant at our next evening meeting on 5 April. Please bring the following equipment: Scissors to cut paper, pencil and eraser and a Pritt stick glue if you have one! If not, some scissors, glue and pencils will be available to share. The design process will be simple and you should all …
