Connect Your Lodge with NFDA

Publicize Your Lodge Events with the National Foundation of Danish America

Listing your lodge on the NFDA website is a fantastic way to let Danish America know about your events you and how to connect with you (https://www.danishamerica.org)! It’s easy to establish a basic website for your lodge through the Sisterhood’s partnership with the National Foundation for Danish America. The NFDA website is a clearinghouse for events and clubs in Danish America. The associated weekly events newsletter reaches close to 2000 people! If you are looking to grow your lodge, you are encouraged to establish a presence with NFDA. And one of the best things about this, it’s easy! To create a webpage listing with NFDA, submit the following information to Karin Wasler, who also serves as NFDA Vice President.

Basic Lodge Information

1. Lodge name, number and location 2. Description of your lodge (what makes you unique; how do you meet; what kinds of activities do you do together) 3. Contact information 4. Officers (if you wish), including photos 5. links to your Lodge’s social media accounts, if you have them. 6. Newsletters, if your lodge uses them.

A few examples for you to look at are: https://danishamerica.org/arizona-rebild https://danishamerica.org/page-18110 https://danishamerica.org/page-18128

Event Details

Your lodge ‘page’ will also be connected to lodge events listed on on the NFDA calendar and in the weekly email events newsletter. Please include the following details for each event:

1. Date 2. Title or Topic of Presentation, including name of presenter 3. Registration information, including how registrants will be notified about login or virtual meeting details. 4. Description of the event

NFDA looks forward to playing a part in the outreach and communication of your wonderful events. Please reach out to Karin with questions (vicepresident@ danishsisterhood.com)

Membership Expansion

Welcome New Members!

LODGE

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NEW MEMBER

Sally Sheppard Hannah Konzen Helen Phillips Bruce Bro Meghan Hunt Bonnie Bentz

SPONSOR

Rita Frederiksen Jennifer Rupp Donna Archer Linda Brooks Linda Brooks Cheryl Bentz

RECIPE CARD

Cardamom Coffee Cake

(Kardemomme Kaffe Kage)

1/2 c. shortening 2 c. sugar 2 eggs 4 c. flour 2 tsp salt 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 2 c. buttermilk 1 tsp. cardamom 1 c. raisins or currants (optional)

Mix ingredients. Bake in two loaf pans at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

From Danish Sisterhood Treasures Cookbook. Recipe submitted by Marie Jaeger, Lodge 177, Solvang, California

Cut along the border for your very own recipe card! (Back of recipe card found on next page.)

Summer time is coming and for kids that means CAMP! With the pandemic in full force last year, most kids did not get to attend camp last year. camp SUMMER Sisterhood of America will assist you by awarding up to 8 general camp grants of $100.00 each, not to exceed the camp costs. Find an application at the DanHopefully that chang- GRANTS ish Sisterhood website www. es this year and even if it is a danishsisterhood.org. Go under virtual camp, we want to help! The Danish Sister- “What We Do” to camp grants. hood supports the members and their children and Remember camp grants are good for grandchildren through age 18 who are attending Danish camps as well as any other camp of your an in person camp or virtual camp during the sum- interest or choice. For more information or quesmer. This camp may be a day camp or an overnight tions go the Danish Sisterhood website or contact camp. It can pertain to something about Denmark Nealna Gylling at trustee2@danishsisterhood.com or can be about any of your interests. The Danish ENJOY A SUMMER CAMP!!!

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Are you an avid cross stitcher? Do you wish you had another project to work on? The National Board has just the thing for you! We have received a wonderful donation of Eva Rosenstand-Clara Wæver cross stitch kits from Solveig Maschke, a dual member of Tivoli Lodge #300 and Chicago Dagmar Lodge #4. (Tusind tak Solveig!). Two of the kits are currently in progress. Once finished, the pieces will be offered as raffle prizes during the 2023 National Convention. We are looking for a sister (or two) who would like to finish these beautiful kits for us before July 2023. As a thank you for your contribution, you will be recognized at the National Convention. For those of you familiar with Eve Rosenstand-Clara Wæver products, here are details about the two kits:

#13-008 Danmark Bell Pull, 5 X 48 inches #12-652 Winter Scene, 19 X 23 inches

If you are an experienced cross stitcher interested in helping with this rewarding project, please contact National Trustee Karen Vig-Keathley at trustee3@danishsisterhood.com.

About Eva Rosenstand A/S — Clara Weaver

Copenhagen became home to a number of embroidery shops in 1870. The shops specialized in the sale of embroidered pieces and materials for embroidery patterns. People would purchase these patterns and materials to make decorative home textiles like samplers, cushions, fire screens and more. Clara Wæver moved to Copenhagen as a young girl, along with her family. She showed great talent for embroidery at an early age and was hired for an embroidery shop. The shop sold materials, embroidered special tasks for customers and taught various embroidery techniques. By 1890, Clara Wæver opened her own shop at Vesterbrogade 62. She and her sister Augusta sold materials for different kinds of embroideries and produced their own patterns. Clara and Augusta also taught other young women how to embroider old Danish ‘white embroideries’ and other handicrafts. Clara was always looking for new embroidery trends and was always open to new ideas. In 1903, she was able to buy a collection of original drawings by the Danish artists Bindesbøll, Constantin Hansen, Kristian Møhl-Hansen and P.C. Skovgård. Clara was very successful in this endeavor and some of these artists continued to be attached to the company later on.

The two sisters passed on the business to N.C. Dyrlund in 1917. Dyrlund continued to produce the traditional embroideries. Clara died in 1930 at the age of 75. In 1940, the company was taken over by Jacob Holst and the shop moved to Østergade 19. Holst’s sister, Migge Holst, ran the company successfully for a number of years. The shop moved once again in 1946 to Østergade 42. And after Migge Holst died in 1953, Jorgen Rosenstand (the son of Jacob Holst) took over the company with the help of his mother Ellen Holst nee: Rosenstand. During this time, Ellen contacted more Danish artists, this time Mads Stage and Gitz Johansen, and their drawings were very successful. Eva Rosenstand A/S was founded in 1958 when Jorgen Rosentand decided to venture out on his own and start his own company. The Eva Rosenstand style of embroidery was very different from Clara Wæver’s style. Rosenstand used drawings from artists including Falke-Bang, Leif Ragn Jensen and Verner Hancke. This style was more modern and popular during this time period. Early on in his business venture, Jorgen introduced “kits”. Up until then, guests would have to cut the embroidery material in the shop, choose colors of thread and add a pattern. With the new kits, customers would have all the necessary materials for a cross-stitch design. After Ellen Holst died in 1976, the two companies merged to form Eva Rosenstand A/S — Clara Wæver. The main shop continued at Østergade 42 in Copenhagen. The company’s products have been known across the world. In 2003, the Danish company Carl J. Permin A/S took over the company, ensuring that it remained in Danish hands and that the designs could be supplied for years to come through Permin of Copenhagen.