Hi All, When I started making lace I already had a pretty good idea of the direction I wanted to take, namely Beds and Maltese. I took a week long course and one of the first things we did was a Russian flower that was big enough to take us at least 2 days to finish - we certainly knew how to twist and cross by the end of it. At the end of the week, I asked if one of the teachers could teach me how to do leaves as both Beds and Maltese have lots of leaves. The one teacher took the time to teach me and there was never a word that I wasn't ready or I had to learn other stuff first, which meant I learned to do leaves without any fear or preset opinions about leaves/tallies. I love doing leaves and most of the lace I do has leaves, including my 5 meters which had 10 leaves per repeat and about 125 repeats in the 5 meters. I have to credit my first teachers for letting me approach making lace the way I needed to and not putting boundaries on it, which has allowed me to attempt any type of lace I have an interest in.
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