Hi all,
Just been catching up on the thread of recent digests and came across Joke
Lyn's messages regarding teaching children.
Lyn wrote: I apologize, but your posting struck me the wrong way. I'm
sitting here with tears of laughter running down my face, thinking, Rats,
my extensive criminal
Dear all,
while I take on board Kim's frustration about the lace patterns, or lack
of, don't forget these books are entitled *dress* patterns not lace patterns.
Presumably the writers are pattern cutting experts and they are aimed at
people interested in reconstructing the clothes not the
Dear Lyn,
You gave me an excellent idea. I could use some slave labour to be able to
enter the 5 meter club :)
Just kidding!
It is sad they had to enforce these rules.
Joke
On 8 Jul 2013, at 23:20, lynrbai...@desupernet.net wrote:
Dear Joke,
I apologize, but your posting struck me the
Hi All
Been watching this thread with interest. I am enhanced CRB checked and do hold
a current certificate however here in the UK it would only cover me for
being a School Crossing Patrol! If I wanted to go into school to 'teach' then
I should be CRB checked for that... if I wanted to
Can't help but think of one of the books on the history of lace. the
children could make lace but they couldn't read, write except for maybe their
own name, name the current monarch, etc They never learned maths, english,
history, current affairs, etc
Did it stop them making
Dear Lyn
I must admit that I have enjoyed this discussion, seems to have made people
think, including me. I haven't, in the past, actually associated
lacemaking with maths but am having to rethink. Your points below are
very good.And I loved the comment in one of your emails about
I so agree Sue. Look at the cases in recent years where 'abusers' have had
the necessary CRB checks and passed just because they 'lied' or something.
I also believe it is basically a money making exercise. Retired people
have the time and energy to go and teach lacemaking to children in
Hi Anna et al,
Talking about the library, I found a couple of students by just taking my lace
into the Library, and making lace on several occasions. The library was keen
to have me working there, saying that it was no different to students working
away on their studies, but people were
Dear Jacquie et al,
I wonder if that information was edited out of the book, but still exists.
Does anyone have an 'in' with the editors to find out? Both books have exactly
the same number of pages, which could be indicative of the need to edit the
second volume.
Jacquie wrote:
Dear residents of the US,
Background checks for those who work with children are an unfortunate but
necessary fact of life. They are needed not only for schools, but also for
those in churches working with children. Several of those Across The Pond
have mentioned the prohibitive price of one
Well, Sue, you've got an MP. WRITE! Let's have a Youtube when this question
is asked in Parliament. A UNIFIED BACKGROUND CHECK FOR LACE TEACHERS!! Once
and done, 5 pounds for an update every 3 years. Otherwise lacemaking will go
the way of the dodo in 30 years.
Lyn in Lancaster,
Elizabeth and all,
the photo isn't good enough to enlarge as big as possible to see all those
elements for being able to say they are hand- or machine made.
But the different things, in my opinion weren't together from beginning on.
They look as if they were from different times. That could be a
Dear Maureen,
Thank you for your comment. I think it is part of a larger picture, of who is
attracted to lacemaking. I have long thought that lacemakers are a cut above
the herd when it comes to intellectual thought. Talking to a lacemaker is not
necessarily the same as talking to just
Dear Elizabeth, et al,
I get my brains from my father's side, who originally was Flemish, but,
being Mennonite, they left Flanders about the same time lace arrived. They
were farmers, and good farmers, but never anything else that we know of,
until my father's generation. Daddy grew up in
Liz--
Thanks so much for your input on Arachne. You have explained a lot about my
tricky memory. When I sight read music I know exactly where the muscles of my
voice should be and silently make the sounds (hope that makes sense). When I
have to memorize words, or remember names, I don't
CRB checks are not only for teaching children. When I was teaching at a
local seniors centre I had to have one done. Luckily they paid for it, so I
really don't know how much it costs.
Malvary in Ottawa where it isn't too hot today (so far).
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The stupidity about CRB checks in England is that I cannot get one, because
I am self-employed.
I contacted the authorities, and was told that I could have an enhanced
security check instead, but ..
as I am self-employed I cannot have that either.
How silly can it be.
As Sue Duckles said here
when my children were in school, i am not sure background and other checks
were made but mostly the proof was in the pudding and i was blessed that my
children were able to get a very good education in a smaller school system.
it allowed for more personalization than i believe teachers today are
Dear friends,
Have you tried showing a left-hander a technique in the mirror. It
works for some though not for all.
Sometimes it's easiest just to sit opposite and let the other person
mirror your image.
David in Ballarat, AUS
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Dear Nancy,
Because of these two observations, I've always thought that people who are
good at bobbin lace would make good software engineers, whether they know it
or not, and whether they are good at arithmetic or not. This is the other way
around from some of the observations that have been
Dear Liz,
I was once asked why I could sight read a piece of music but
couldn't remember it to play from memory and I said I didn't
know. However my music teacher said that it was probably because I
matched the pattern of the notes on the stave to a memory of how my
hands felt when I played.
Dear spiders,
Lately I've been sending out a lot of private reminders to please trim
posts. This is a public reminder to include only relevant bits from
the posting you are quoting. If you paraphrase the email, you may not
even need to include much more than a line or two. This is mainly for
the
Easiest for who?
As a left hander, this kind of idea (that all a right hander needed to do
was sit opposite and let me mirror image) is part of what caused me to hate
crochet. My mother, a right hander, tried to teach me to crochet for
years, not realizing that my brain didn't see things like
Dear Lin,
Thank you for your kind remarks. I do think you've missed the point,
however. We were looking for the skills used in lacemaking to get schools
to promote, or at least accept a volunteer lacemaking group. This discussion
is about what abilities does lacemaking develop, among other
My email set up does not allow me to trim off old posts, so I am having to
start a fresh email.
Rosemary,
I agree wholeheartedly with this statement, you expressed my
feelings well: I think its just a sad fact that given the group of people
involved, the lace will never be treated as
I remember the very first conversation I held with my first lace teacher (now
very sadly suffering from Alzheimer's ) on my enquiry about her classes she
asked me if I liked jigsaw puzzles I replied that I did and her response was
well you will like lacemaking then bless you Noni what a sad
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These are the articulable skills mentioned in this discussion. If anyone
comes up with more, please add them to your personal list.
eye hand coordination
small motor skills
concentration
following directions, oral and written
problem solving
analytical thinking
logic
spatial relations
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