Holiday Lunch

Cranberry Lacers gathered at the Stage House Tavern in Somerset for our traditional December "meeting" - the holiday lunch.  We shared wonderful conversation and great food in this historic restaurant, enjoying ourselves in a private room in the part of the building that was over 200 years old.  Part of the fun of the afternoon was continuing a 20 year old tradition of reading "The Night Before Christmas" and doing a gift swap.  Everyone brought a gift and every time during the reading the word "the" was said, the gifts were passed to the next person around the table until the last "the" was said and the gift in your hands was the one that you opened and kept.  The book that has been used for all these years was gifted to the group 20 years ago in 1997 by Trish, sadly no longer with us.  It is believed that the idea for this was started in 1996 and then Trish bought the book the following year.

"All cheesecake pieces should be this size."

A beautiful lace scarf!

Cranberry Lacers member Rosa has finished this beautiful lace scarf!

October Meeting

On a beautiful fall day, the Cranberry lacers gathered for lace making and good conversation.  A tatter joined us today and we were thrilled to see her beautiful creations!  So many different types of lace on our pillows.

A bit of Binche on Marcia's pillow

A Russian tape lace dragon on Mary's pillow

A Binche bookmark on Helga's pillow

A bit of Chantilly on Arlene's pillow

Mary working on her tatting

Barbara's beautiful tatted pieces

Barbara tatting

We meet every third Saturday of the month for a day of lacing and conversation. We are a group of friendly lacemakers with a range of experience.  Anyone is welcome to join us!  The room we meet in at the library is large with lots of light.  Feel free to email us at cranberrylacers@gmail.com for more information.

Cranberry Lacers has been a chartered chapter group of IOLI for 25 years. 

July meeting

Our July 15th meeting was filled with friendship, lace, and food, as always.  Our members take turns bring desserts (and sometimes additional goodies) to share during our lace days.  Thank you to Cranberry Lacer Veronica for a wonderful spread this month!  Some of our members didn't make it, as they were anxiously packing up in preparation for the annual IOLI Convention, which began the very next day.  Looking forward to hearing the stories of those who attended!

Almost finished piece of lace.....

Delicious spread today!

We meet every third Saturday of the month for a day of lacing and conversation. We are a group of friendly lacemakers with a range of experience - we are lucky enough to have a professional instructor to teach the beginners and work with the experienced.  Anyone is welcome to join us!  The room we meet in at the library is large with lots of light.  Feel free to email us at cranberrylacers@gmail.com for more information.

Cranberry Lacers has been a chartered chapter group of IOLI for 25 years. 

June meeting

Many of us had quite the eventful adventure in getting into the library today!  We have learned that when Franklin Township has their Household Hazardous Waste Day collection in the same municipal complex as the library, it can take up to 45 minutes just to get down the road and into the parking lot. 😩.  Add in the pouring rain this morning, and our June lace meeting will be one to remember.  Nevertheless, the ones who made it enjoyed the company and companionship of lace today.  Here's a sampling of what was on our pillows today.

We meet every third Saturday of the month for a day of lacing and conversation. (However, we have already decided that if Household Hazardous Waste Day collection occurs on a third Saturday next year,  we definitely need to switch dates!)  We are a group of friendly lacemakers with a range of experience - we are lucky enough to have a professional instructor to teach the beginners and work with the experienced.  Anyone is welcome to join us!  The room we meet in at the library is large with lots of light.  Feel free to email us at cranberrylacers@gmail.com for more information.

Cranberry Lacers has been a chartered chapter group of IOLI for 25 years. 

May meeting

The Cranberry Lacers met today for our May 2017 monthly lace day at the Franklin Township Public Library in Somerset, NJ.  We welcomed a brand new lacemaker for her first lesson today!  She learned about us through visits to the library.  

Lots of different lace was on our members' pillows today:

This is a Tonder (Danish point ground) edging

A Torchon motif

A Torchon shawl in the making

A diamond shaped Torchon motif

Binche bookmark

Russian tape lace collar

Bell shaped tape lace motif

We meet every third Saturday of the month for a day of lacing and conversation. We are a group of friendly lacemakers with a range of experience - we are lucky enough to have a professional instructor to teach the beginners and work with the experienced.  Anyone is welcome to join us!  The room we meet in at the library is large with lots of light.  Feel free to email us at cranberrylacers@gmail.com for more information.

Cranberry Lacers has been a chartered chapter group of IOLI for 25 years. 

April meeting

The Cranberry Lacers met today for our April 2017 monthly lace day at the Franklin Township Public Library in Somerset, NJ.  Lots of different lace was on our pillows:  Torchon, Milanese, tape lace, etc.  Motifs of all kinds and even the beginning of a scarf on a bolster pillow!

If you have received your Winter 2017 version of the IOLI Bulletin, you may have seen the lace on the cover by one of our members.

We meet every third Saturday of the month for a day of lacing and conversation. We are a group of friendly lacemakers with a range of experience - we are lucky enough to have a professional instructor to teach the beginners and work with the experienced.  Anyone is welcome to join us!  The room we meet in at the library is large with lots of light.  Feel free to email us at cranberrylacers@gmail.com for more information.

Cranberry Lacers has been a chartered chapter group of IOLI for 25 years. 

The Cranberry Lacers met today for our March 2017 monthly lace day at the Franklin Township Public Library in Somerset, NJ.  We meet every third Saturday of the month for a day of lacing and conversation. We are a group of friendly lacemakers with a range of experience - we are lucky enough to have a professional instructor to teach the beginners and work with the experienced.  Anyone is welcome to join us!  The room we meet in at the library is large with lots of light.  Feel free to email us at cranberrylacers@gmail.com for more information.

Cranberry Lacers has been a chartered chapter group of IOLI for 25 years.

This is just a test post.  Hoping to set up this blog as the internet presence for the Cranberry Lacers of New Jersey