Hi Liz, I can sympathise with your indignation!
I was talking to a couple of well-respected and very well-known author/teachers a coupleof years ago, and was horrified to be told that I was not teaching my students properly! They both maointained that a successful teacher aims for "bums on seats" in the classes, and that a tutor should *never* tell a student how to start or finish a piece of lace, as, if they don't know that, they *have* to keep coming back to classes! Needless to say, I still teach my students how to start and finish, and how to go about the middle bits of ther lace too! Best wishes, Carol - home in Suffolk now, after a sunny and hot five weeks in West Wales - and where it is still sunny and hot here. And where I had over 1900 eMails to wade thro', but this has decreased to 830 now! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Ligeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:41 AM Subject: [lace] Re: Lace Frog I agree with you, Eva, though there may be some times when a student needs to have done some techniques so that they can learn the new ones in class. I remember, back in the earlier days of the Guild, that at a Lace Day a couple of ladies asked me how many years should they be making lace for, before they could move on to Beds lace. "They had only been making lace for 4 years, and were still on narrow, simple torchon patterns, and their teacher would not let them try anything else yet!!!" I was appalled!!! I would have given the whole thing away, if I had had to stay on tiny torchon edges for that length of time! I think the teacher was just feathering her own nest - not trying to advance her students - and I told them so!!! Once you can make the basic lace, then try other types - you may find them more satisfying! from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
