When I first started learning (teaching myself from the old Golden Hands
magazines), I heard about a lace workshop and went to see and to talk to the
teacher. She was whizzing round the room from student to student and for
most of them the instruction was along the lines of "do cross twist cross to
the next pin hole and then I'll be back" or whatever they were supposed to
be doing.
When she had a moment and spoke to me I showed her what I had done - her
response "Not very good is it. Of course you can't do good lace if you
don't use linen thread". I admit it wasn't very good, I'd only been trying
for about 2 weeks, but I did understand what I was doing. When we formed a
group a couple of months later, several of those ladies were stuck - didn't
know what to do or how to do it; didn't know what the stitches were called;
didn't understand the concept of finishing one motif before doing the next
bit, etc. etc. etc. The couple of ladies in the group who had perhaps made
a little lace before the workshop had to help the others and it was several
month before the bookmarks were even close to being completed in many cases.
Malvary in Ottawa where it is going from -6 this morning to +6 by this
afternoon. Nice bright sunny day.
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