Lace Embrace annual event
2015 Theme:  The Nature of Lace
Organizers: Lacemakers Guild of Oklahoma
Date: Saturday, October 3, 2015
Time:  9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Place: Tri-County Technology Center
601 SE Nowata Rd, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Website:  http://tinyurl.com/mgwm8kx
Information: Paula Barnes, paulabarnes@flash.net, 918-335-1511

Schedule:
9:00 Registration
9:15 Submit lace contest pieces
9:30 Program: Preservation & identification of lace
10:00 Contest Voting Begins
10:15 Prize Drawing
10:30 Workshop: Beginning Needle Tatting Flowers for Greeting Cards
11:30 Prize Drawing
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Workshop: Tatting Flowers. Needle or Shuttle Tatting; make into a corsage.
1:30 Prize Drawing
1:45 Contest Voting Closes
2:00 Workshop: Hyperbolic Tatting
3:00 Prize Drawing
3:15 Contest Results Announced
3:30 Prize Drawing

2015 Competition:
Use your interpretation of the theme “The Nature of Lace” to create an original piece of lace and/or adapt a pattern. The lace is to be handmade (at any time) by the person entering, using any lace technique including, but not limited to: bobbin lace, tatting, knitting, crocheting, needle laces, Battenberg. The contest will be decided by popular vote of those attending Lace Embrace using the following criteria:
Consistency of stitches
Interpretation of the theme
Overall eye appeal

The Lacemakers Guild of Oklahoma is based in Bartlesville, and has been ative since 1992. They are a chartered member of I.O.L.I., hold monthly meetings, educational programs, demonstration and instruction.  Membership is $15/calendar year. embers receive a bi-monthly newletter, and have access to the LGO library.