Finger Lakes Tatting Group
P.O. Box 9 Hector, NY 14841 607/546-8344 email:
January 2009
Gentle knotters,
You are invited to a wonderful extended tea party – our 11th International Tatting Seminars in Hector scheduled for Saturday April 18 (9-5) and Sunday April 19 (9:30-4:30). Please read and fill out your registration material carefully. Our registration confirmations will be sent out in two batches; early responders (whose replies are legible) are more likely to get their first schedule choices.
As before, we will be located in the Valois-Logan-Hector Fire hall at the intersection of Route 414 and Ball Diamond Road in Hector, NY. Lunch and snacks will be provided Saturday and Sunday – complimentary for registrants; guests may join you for a small extra fee. We try to accommodate special dietary needs (we have these ourselves!) Dinner on Saturday and Sunday are an optional extra. Please note the hall is a carry-in-carryout facility, and assistance will be needed to clean up the hall, particularly after classes end on Sunday.
Other activities throughout the weekend include vendors both days offering a variety of tatting supplies, displays, giveaway table, plus a Saturday evening program after dinner – this one will be about tea. Save your quarters for the raffles and silent auction – these will benefit this year’s adopted charity, The American Heart Association, and also help support this convention. Think about whether you’ll have a special raffle or silent auction item to donate and please let Karey know.
Our contest for this year is to use up the ball of thread you received in your goodie bag last year. (This was a 400-yard size 20 ball of cream-colored thread). A Viewer’s Choice prize will be awarded. Please bring tatting to display/exhibit and show & tell. The show & tell session will be part of the Saturday night program.
Friday – “Local” as well as out of town tatters and their families are invited to partake in a dish-to-share dinner at the Fire Hall at 6 pm. Please let us know if you plan to attend and if you plan to bring a dish to share. If you come in early, you’re invited to stop at Karey’s shop, Graceful Arts Fiber Studio (on Route 414, about 4 miles south of the Fire hall, towards Watkins Glen) for tea, snacks and visiting from noon to 5 pm.
Saturday and Sunday – Our schedule will allow all participants to attend four classes = one 90 minute and one 3-hour class on Saturday; similar schedule on Sunday. Each class will be offered once each day – a short class Saturday morning and a long one Saturday afternoon; then a long class Sunday morning and a short one Sunday afternoon. Optional dinner Saturday night will be pasta; we will have tea after the short Sunday class. This year, Saturday night dinner and Sunday tea are included in the cost for paid registrants.
All registrations are logged in the order received. We try to place you in the classes of your choice, but you may find yourself in a different class than expected. They are all great, so please enjoy the ones you’re in. Several instructors will make a limited number of class materials/kits available for a nominal fee to those not taking a class who want the materials. Please let us know this with your registration so we can tell the teachers.
We will be ordering commemorative mugs – you do not need to pre-order these – they will be available for purchase on Saturday and Sunday.
All kit fees, including pre-ordered extras, are payable to your teachers. Please do not include these with your registration. Please note – each instructor is teaching her own original designs.
90-minute classes – offered Saturday 10:30- noon, Sunday 1:30-3:00 pm. You may take one each day – please indicate a first, second and third choice on your registration sheet.
A)Chaine Maille Earrings – Bina Madden - Learn how to tat and interlock rings in theByzantine chain maille pattern, deciding on ring size (number of stitches)
based on your individual tension and size of thread; a unique thread hiding method to make rounded instead of tear drop shaped rings will be taught. You will need size 20 thread; alternatively you may use DMC metallic pearl cotton size 5 thread (25 yd skein split to two threads, not DMC metallic on the spool); Dritz Looped Needle Threaders or preferred needle for sewing in the end. You will also need a pair of ear wires (available from vendors).
B)Tatted Tea Coaster – Sarah Kelley – Tat a coaster in the shape of a teapot. You will need a Tatsy tatting shuttle and heavy cotton (these items available from vendors)
C) Christmas Tea Ornament - Ginny Weathers – Designed by to fit over a glass ball, this gorgeously ornate ornament uses lots of beads, including some special ones provided by Ginny, and a long-beaded-picot technique that will be taught in class. Kit fee ($3) includes the ornament, special beads and coil less safety pins. You will need to bring to class about 400 seed beads (size 10 or 11). Pre-stringing information will be sent with your confirmation
D)Orange Picot Bookmark – Karey Solomon - Play with picot variations while creating a bookmark to mark your pages when teatime is over. You will need two shuttles and size 20 thread in the color of your choice – Orange, (Earl) Gray, Green, or another favorite.
E) Tea Party BLING BLING! - Ruth Perry - for advanced beginners on up, create a stretchy tatted bracelet with a combination of Celtic Tatting, Daisy Picot technique, and Dora Young's knotless tatting (also known as split chain technique) using Marie Smith's easy split chain method. These techniques will be taught in the class. Students may bring a small tatted motif to attach to their bracelet, buttons or bracelet charms. Beads, buttons, thread, and charms will be included in the kit ($5) for the class. Take home a bling-i-fied stretchy tatted bracelet, and the techniques to apply tatting to anything, including stretchy closed-circle bracelets, hair bands, even tea cup/wineglass bangles.
F) Beaded Block Tatted Heart – Kaye Judt - Proclaim your love for tatting, tea, or anything else. This block tatted adornment can be decorated with a variety of bead designs. Students need 150 size 10 or size 11 seed beads in a heart color threaded onto 1 ball of size 10 or 20 tatting thread, one shuttle (do not wind) or size 5 tatting needle, and usual tatting supplies.
3-hour classes offered Saturday 1-4:30 (includes tea-and-raffle-break) and Sunday 9:30 -12:30
G)3-D Tea Blossom – Sabina Cardin (Bina) Madden - this diminutive, sculpted blossom uses rings and Josephine rings that may be tatted two different ways (loop-tatted ring off ringor mock rings with ring off ring) and Bina will teach you both of them. Bring size 20 thread in a floral color and complimentary size 11 seed beads plus 5 green size 11 seed beads; also bring green thread to tat over wire for the stem. Other supplies will be provided in class. Bina, from Everett, WA, is known to many as the developer of the Half Moon Split Ring and the Celtic Knotted Picot, and she is the “Thoughts On Tatting” editor for the IOLI (International Old Lacers, Inc.) Bulletin.
H)Maltese Teapot – Martha Ess - This sweet, two-color teapot introduces the Maltese Ring. This pattern will be in Martha’sforthcoming book and we get a chance to be among the first to enjoy it. You will need two colors in size 20 or 30 thread and two shuttles. Martha returns to Hector from Greensboro, NC. She is the designer/authorof “New Critters on the Block” (block-tatted animals), “Tat’sAmoré,” (collection of heart patterns) and “Holidays on the Block,” (blocktatted animals and other motifs).
I)Wide pendant necklace – Nina Libin - Dark beads and gold thread (kits will be available for $10) create an elegant Beanile-tatted necklace. Students who wish to string their own beads should contact the instructor for directions (); otherwise bring shuttles, preferably without picks or crochet hooks. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and now living in New York City, Nina is the author of "Tatted Lace of Beads, the Techniques of BEANILE Lace” published by LACIS in 1998 and the newsletter series “Lace of Beads”.
J) Tea-Bag – Karey Solomon – A beaded tatting ball-thread holder will be tatted using size 5 thread, beads and a cabone ring, to attach to a small tatting bag. Learn how to tat onto a ring, lock chain and mock ring. (Kit $5 includes all materials and pre-strung beads) Bring at least two tatting shuttles and a fine crochet hook. Karey has 19 tatting pattern collections in print, writes and edits “Tatting Times” a quarterly tatting newsletter and is one of the organizers of this conference.
Accommodations
If you need a place to stay, we suggest the following Bed and Breakfasts: Red House Country Inn (607/546-8566) or The Fox and the Grapes (607/582-7528) (room rates are motel reasonable when rooms are shared) and very close but a little more expensive ($150-$165 per room, two or more people per room) Seneca Springs Bed and Breakfast (607/546-4066). The motel Chalet Leon has changed management (Liz is gone) and according to the phone message, may begin taking reservations at the beginning of April. (607/546-7171) Need other possibilities or places to avoid? I’m currently working on a few other lower-cost alternatives - please contact Karey for additional information.
Food / Special needs
Allergies and special needs (dietary and otherwise) should not prevent anyone from coming and enjoying the weekend. After 10 years, we’ve seen (almost) everything! Let us know your needs and we’ll do what we can to accommodate you
Registration must be sent to Audrey Ryder by mail at 596 Tarrington Rd, Rochester, NY 14609. She needs to have it in her hands no later than March 15. Early confirmations will be sent out around February 20. If you need to cancel after March 15, we will partially refund your registration if you wish. You may reach Karey at the above email (preferred) or via telephone if you need more information.
Please share this information with other tatters!
Hoping to see you here,
Karey Solomon and Kathy Robinson, co-chairs
Finger Lakes Tatting Group Mini-Convention
April 18-19, 2008 at the VLH Firehouse
Route 414, Hector, NY
Please print legibly
Name______Phone (including area code)______
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Address
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EMAIL (for the directory) ______
I would like to attend: (PLEASE CIRCLE CHOICES AND RETAIN A COPY FOR YOUR INFORMATION)
_____Both days………………………………………………………………. $75…………
______Saturday only………………………………………. $45………………………….
_____ Sunday only……………………………………..….. $45 …………………………
_____ (Your meal is included/no extra charge) Guest for Saturday Lunch $5……….
_____Saturday pasta and salad supper/ guest cost $7.50 (Guests only need to pay, but we need to know how many will attend. Double check here: how many people, including yourself Please add payment for guest/s to your registration fees)______
_____ (Your Sunday meals are included) Guest for Sunday Lunch $5……….
Class Requests by Letter
SATURDAY
Short class 1st choice______2nd choice______3rd choice ______
Long class 1st choice______2nd choice______3rd choice ______
SUNDAY
Short class 1st choice______2nd choice______3rd choice ______
Long class 1st choice______2nd choice______3rd choice ______
Comments/ anything else we need to know:
PLEASE MAKE ALL CHECKS PAYABLE TO THE FINGER LAKES TATTING GROUP ONLY. AUDREY RYDER (596 Tarrington Rd, Rochester, NY 14609 MUST RECEIVE CHECKS AND REGISTRATION. BY MARCH 15; CANADIAN AND OVERSEAS GUESTS MAY MAIL THEIR REGISTRATION AND PAY IN AMERICAN FUNDS ONLY AT THE DOOR. EARLY REGISTRANTS WILL RECEIVE EARLIER CONFIRMATIONS.