Meeting on Oct. 14 was held at Festival
Foods,
3207-80th Street,
Kenosha,
between
1:00
and
3:00 p.m.
There was quite a rain storm this day.
President
Rose Ann conducted the meeting. There were six
members present.
Jane Scheef Lace Day discussion. Find
out how many are interested in Torcheon
workshop. There was also discussion about using
some of the funds towards expanding our resource
library.
Four members demonstrated lace to
the Christian Women's Group - Basilica of
St Joseph's in
Milwaukee
- on Sept 25th, Rose Ann, Pat, Jan, and Marilee.
There were around 30 women in attendance and a
gift of $100 was received. This will go towards
purchase of hospice tree.
While looking through pictures that
Theresa offered to organize and put into album,
a full weekend retreat was suggested to allow
time for new project work. Group also used to
have dinner at restaurants instead of homes.
Rose Ann offered to check availability of local
restaurant. Pat has been the gracious December
hostess for several years.
Hospice suggested having our tree
available in summer to display at Saturday
markets. Rose Ann will suggest that a poster
display be used instead with a few sample
ornaments due to concerns about weather and
starched ornaments.
Barbara shared more of her beautiful ice
drops
2018 IOLI convention will be in
San Antonio
TX
July 22-28.
Remember to keep track of your lace
hours. IOLI has an updated online form to
use.
You do not have enter "seconds," only
hours and minutes spaces. You do not have to be
an IOLI member to submit hours for the hours to
count for our chapter. Categories to track are:
demonstrating lace, travel time to and from
event, preparation time preceding event, gratis
teaching, programs presented, and other type of
hours used to promote lace.
Nov 11th Retreat - Pat will teach
Carrickmacross. This will be
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
at the Avalon Parc Clubhouse. The entrance to
condos is off
Green Bay
road at
43rd Street
between Hanson Pool and Sunset Ridge Mausoleum.
Enter and stay right and the clubhouse is on
back of the circular road. Potluck lunch and
remember if you want to BYOP (bring your own
project), there is plenty of space. Right now we
have nine coming: Pat, Trish, Theresa, Barbara,
Rose Ann, Cathy, Sylvia, Fran and Carol. Five
will be focusing on Carrickmacross and others
are BYOP. I will be bringing a coffee pot,
assorted teas, paper plates, cups, napkins,
utensils and something with chicken. If you
decide to come, please email group so we know
how many tables and chairs to set up in addition
to the nine listed here.
Dec 2nd - Rose Ann getting final details
about our demonstrating lace at the Civil War
Museum
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
If interested in demonstrating, let Rose Ann
know the times you can be there.
Dec 9th - Lunch at
1:00 p.m.
at Baker Street Restaurant & Pub. Optional gift
exchange. Dues of $6 will also be collected. Let
Rose Ann know if you are coming.
Jan 13th meeting will be a trip down
memory lane, looking at albums and other
material from chapter box, and planning for
topics for the rest of 2018. Jan has offered to
demonstrate "starts and finishes" at one of the
meetings.
